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This 4 page paper discusses some of the similarities between the Trojan hero Hector and President Barack Obama. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Hector is the leader of the Trojans, and by nature a wise and gentle man who is still capable of defending his city. In his introduction to the poem, Bernard
Knox describes Troy as being besieged by men who mean to destroy it utterly: "The arts of peace are useless now. Troy will not be saved by the magnanimity and
tender-heartedness of Priam nor by Paris brilliance in the courts of love. If it is to survive it will do so because of the devotion, courage and incessant efforts of
one man, Priams son Hector" (Knox, 1990, p. 33). Knox also tells us that Hector is such a formidable warrior that none of the Greeks will face him in
single combat, until Menelaus and then Nestor give them a tongue-lashing (Knox, 1990). But even more important than his great strength and skill as a warrior are the qualities he
displays off the battlefield, for unlike Achilles, he is not a born warrior, but a man of peace (Knox, 1990). He understands human relationships, those between "man and man, and
man and woman, which demand sympathy, persuasion, kindness and, where firmness is necessary, a firmness expressed in forms of law and resting on granted authority" (Knox, 1990, p. 33).
Hector is a man of peace born into a time of war, and therefore forced to fight (Knox, 1990). But even though he is peaceful, he knows when to carry
the battle forward. When a seer says the omens say he should retreat, despite the fact that he has the Greeks backed up against their ships, he says, "Fight for
your country-that is the best, the only omen" (12.281). This is perhaps the most admirable of all Hectors qualities: the fact that he is not a brute like Achilles but
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