Guided by Athena, Achilles strikes the fatal blow against Hector and plunges his spear into the Trojan’s throat. Painting by Peter Paul Rubens, circa 1630, Museum of Fine Art, Pau, France.

The mighty have fallen. England, Germany, France, Spain, Russia and Italy–the great powers of the 20th Century–lie in smoldering ruins. The new masters of Europe are Portugal and Greece… ...

Hector died at the hands of Achilles. Evaggelos Vallianatos, Ph.D., studied history and biology at the University of Illinois; earned his Ph.D. in Greek and European history at the University of ...

Indeed, the poem has no hint that Hector should become more like Achilles. Instead, when Hector’s father risks his own life to entreat Achilles to release Hector’s body for burial, it’s ...

I brought some of my team members from the Amsterdam Troy Project to sit and react to the 2004 epic Troy with me! Even though we can't get to Troy this year to carry out our excavations, we can still ...

Homer first wrote of the Trojan war in The Iliad, a story filled with enduring characters: Helen, Paris, Achilles, Hector and Odysseus, to name but a few. Author Barry Strauss revisits the classic ...

The choreography in the Hector and Achilles fight is a testament to the skill that the Troy production brought to the film’s action, no matter how big or small.

This led to a frustrated Patroclus donning his armour and fighting in place of Achilles. Hector eventually killed Patroclus but soon after realised that it wasn't Achilles and returned back home.

Unsurprisingly, you take on the role of the iconic warrior Achilles during the cataclysmic siege of Troy. After vanquishing Hector in a rather underwhelming show-down, Achilles is quickly ...