Wishing the Impossible: Hektor in Iliad 8

Book 8 offers us our third vision of Hektor in as many books. In book 6, he takes us inside the city of Troy as he speaks to his mother, Helen, and Andromache. Book 7 shows him challenging Ajax to a duel before returning the focus on the city itself. In book 8, Hektor (eventually) … Continue reading Wishing the Impossible: Hektor in Iliad 8