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<blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 1545521" data-attributes="member: 198">Exactly. I noticed after I posted that I forgot to add the smiley, but was hoping enough people have seen the &quot;Paladin as Lawful Stupid&quot; threads to be able to pick up the tongue in cheek aspect.There's no denying that in both the movie and the epic, Hector is one of the very few sane people in Troy (in the movie, he's the only one). He does what he has to simply because of loyalty, to king, family, and country. And he does it knowing full well that he is going to die, his son is going to be killed, and his wife will become a slave. Achilles may be the hero of the Iliad, but Hector in many ways is emblematic (as Odysseus is) of the newer, civilised world, where war for the sake of glory is somewhat outmoded. I've always thought that it is entirely fitting that the last words of the epic refer not to the wrath of Achilles but to the funeral of Hector, tamer of horses.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shilsen, post: 1545521, member: 198"] Exactly. I noticed after I posted that I forgot to add the smiley, but was hoping enough people have seen the "Paladin as Lawful Stupid" threads to be able to pick up the tongue in cheek aspect. There's no denying that in both the movie and the epic, Hector is one of the very few sane people in Troy (in the movie, he's the only one). He does what he has to simply because of loyalty, to king, family, and country. And he does it knowing full well that he is going to die, his son is going to be killed, and his wife will become a slave. Achilles may be the hero of the [I]Iliad[/I], but Hector in many ways is emblematic (as Odysseus is) of the newer, civilised world, where war for the sake of glory is somewhat outmoded. I've always thought that it is entirely fitting that the last words of the epic refer not to the wrath of Achilles but to the funeral of Hector, tamer of horses. [/QUOTE]

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