| abstract | - In the ninth year of the siege Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek host and Achilles, its best warrior had a quarrel. Achilles sulked in his tent and refused to fight for fourteen days. During this time the Trojans attacked the Greek encampment. In the battle Hector, the champion of the Trojans, a brother of Paris, fought and killed Patroclus which forces Achilles back into battle to avenge his friend. He engages in single combat with Hector while the Trojans look on from the walls of the city and the Greeks from their side of the plain. Hector is slain and to complete his revenge Achilles drags the body of the dead warrior around the walls in the dust. Hector’s aged father Priam then comes humbly to Achilles to ransom the body of his son. After the ten year siege of Troy by the Greeks, the city was taken by means of a trick. Pretending to abandon the war, the Greeks sailed away, leaving behind them a huge wooden horse which actually concealed within it a number of armed men. The Trojans, delighted with the wooden horse, brought it into the city and proceeded to celebrate their victory. During the night, the Greeks inside the horse came out and opened the gates to the other Greek army outside the city and proceeded to destroy and capture the city. And this fulfills the final victory of the Greeks.
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