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Hector

Beings

The Trojan defender-hero of the Iliad, opposite Achilles. Not Paris as the abduction twin alone, and not a bare Trojan dump.

Also known as Hektor

Roman religion

  • Hector appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid Book 2 seats Hector’s shade urging Aeneas to flee Troy with the Penates. Named Trojan hero in that Roman telling, not an Iliad-only seat invented as a new source.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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Hellenic religion

  • Hector appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses Trojan books name Hector among the war’s dead and the grief that follows Troy’s fall. A named Hector in that poem, not Achilles as the same hero and not Iliad as this edge’s source.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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