Aquiles, the hero of Troy

The king of the mirmidones, protagonist of the 'Iliad' of Homero, did not go so far as to see the fall of Troy; an arrow of the troyano Paris finished with his life. His partners resorted to the famous stunt of the wooden horse to take the city.

His duel with the troyano Héctor is the culminating episode of the 'Iliad' of Homero. Hurt fatally by an arrow in the heel, Aquiles could not see how the Greeks were taking Troy and were limiting it to ashes. The 'Iliad', the big poem on the war of Troy, reports to us only some episodes of the struggle of aqueos and troyanos in a few days of the tenth and last year of the siege. Aquiles is the protagonist of the epic plot, but this one covers only one small part of his intervention in the war: his annoyance with the Greek chief Agamenón, that the slave Briseida forced him to deliver; his denial to fight with other chiefs aqueos; and the definitive meeting with Héctor, the son of the king troyano, in a duel that will finish with the death of this one.

Homero stops without counting Aquiles's death and the end of the war. It finishes his poem after the crying for Héctor without giving us the final panorama: the conquest of Troy for the Greeks. After Aquiles, the best of the aqueos, was giving death to Héctor, the best hero of Troy, the city remained very depressed. But he received new fortitudes on having received the help of the Amazons, first of all, and, finally, of Memnón and his Ethiopians. Aquiles did not think at all that it was stopping it when it advanced towards the walls, anxiously for be throwing to the assault. But now it was going to face a more dangerous enemy: the god Apollo, the divine protector of the troyanos. Apollo moved back and from a distance he sent swift the arrow that kneeled in the most vulnerable point of the body of the hero: the heel. Being drained by the wound Aquiles collapsed, feeling how his tragic destination was fulfilled. He remained stretched before the doors of Troy. Perhaps he was the god of the silver arch who sent the fatal arrow, or perhaps the troyano was Paris, skillful archer, and Apollo intervened directing the arrow to the fragile ankle of the hero.

In fact, we find one and another version in diverse ancient texts. Although the death had taken many of his children and to his best warriors, Príamo was resisting in the tenth year of the siege. It seemed necessary to resort to the pitfall, since the force was not achieving the final victory. And again it took control of Ulises's astuteness, inspired by the goddess Atenea. The king of Ítaca proposed the ingenious plan of constructing a gigantic wooden horse in whose hollow belly emboscarían the boldest warriors, who then would go out and would open the doors of the wall to the others.

Route: historiang.com

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