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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524263" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Achilles And The Slaying Of Hector</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Achilles took the slain body of proud Prince Hector<br>slit holes through warrior corpse ankles and proceeded <br>to drag Hector’s defeated slain body behind his chariot<br>an ignoble act of revenge bitterness hate anger contempt</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Achilles killed proud Hector with a single spear thrust <br>Achilles refused to eat mourns on Olympian ambrosia<br>Achilles killed Hector with a spear thrust into the neck <br>proud noble neck the only vulnerable on Hector’s body </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hector who wore the god made prize armour of Achilles<br>armour stripped from slain Patroclus beloved of Achilles<br>in grief how anger festered into revenge rage in Achilles <br>Hector victim of vengeance dies a slow agonizing death</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hector accepted his fate begged Achilles treat his body<br>with respect once slain but hubris was wrath of Achilles<br>shamelessly Achilles desecrates the Trojan heroes body <br>for nine days dragging slain corpse around the battlefield</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for nine days denying King Priam funeral rites for his son<br>Achilles enraged cared nothing for feelings of Hector’s family<br>shamed humiliated is corpse of Hector dragged behind chariot <br>Achilles what great rage passions storm in soul possessed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Achilles who addressed Hector like an entreating dog<br>stated as he killed him it was hopeless to expect respect <br>for his slain defeated corpse declared 'my rage, my fury <br>would drive me now to hack your flesh away and eat </div><div style="margin:10px 0">you raw — such agonies you have caused me' “For what <br>you've done. No one can keep the dogs off of your head, <br>not if they brought me ransom of ten or twenty times as much, <br>or more' then Achilles slices Hector's head hanging only </div><div style="margin:10px 0">by skin thus fell Trojan prince Hector to pride arrogance <br>Achilles of scorn wrath slayer of Hector son of King Priam <br>Hector with wife child who fought to defend his city family <br>even Zeus was dismayed by hubris abuse to Hector's body </div><div style="margin:10px 0">at the command of Zeus Hermes led King Priam in a wagon<br>out of Troy across the plains into the Greek camp unnoticed<br>to Achilles' tent to plead with Achilles for a slain son's body <br>to permit a father to perform his funeral rites for son Hector</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Priam grasped Achilles by the knees and begged this feared <br>killer of so many of his sons to worthy ransom his son's body<br>Priam begged by the gods kissed the hand of Achilles killer <br>of his sons stirred Achilles' grief to tears to claim corpse son</div><div style="margin:10px 0">only then after nine days of bitter agony did Priam at Achilles<br>feet begging reclaim Hector's body to take back into city Troy<br>only then could funeral rites be preformed only then could the<br>desecrated corpse of Hector be buried as Troy the city mourns</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q>
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an ignoble act of revenge bitterness hate anger contempt

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