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Hector - Point of View

Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 01:41:43
Category: / History / Asian History
Length: 6 pages (1744 words)
"All my life I have lived by a code and the code is simple: Honor the Gods, love your woman and defend your country." After decades of warfare, Agamemnon, King of Mycenae had forced the kingdom of Greece into a loose alliance. Agamemnon's brother, Menelaus, king of Sparta, was weary of war and battle and offered peace with Troy, the most powerful rival to the emerging Greek nation with mighty walls that could never be …
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…here I am, in pain and agony, the great Hector defeated by the invincible Achilles. I closed my eyes, all the men that I've killed stretched out their hands to welcome me. "Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: Will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers know our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?"
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