![]() ![]() Achilles decides to defy the gods by mutilating Hector’s corpse, but every night, the gods restore his body as if it had never been violated. ![]() To avenge Patroclus' death, Achilles kills Hector, and as Hector is dying, he predicts that Achilles will soon be dead as well. He had decided to withdraw from the battle, after Agamemnon, the leader of the Greeks, decided to take Achilles’ slave. He also thinks of his son, Neoptolemus, and of his fallen close friend, Patroclus.Īchilles feels responsible for his friend's death because Patroclus was killed by Hector when Achilles wasn't in the battle to protect him. The narrative opens in medias res: after ten long, grueling years of combat against the city of Troy, Achilles is enjoying a moment alone on the beach, and his thoughts turn to his mother, a goddess of the sea. Ransom is a modern adaptation of Homer's Iliad, which is the story of the last year of the mythical Trojan war. ![]()
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