The classic definition of the hero finds in Hector one of its most finished models. Leader of the Trojans, he fiercely combats with the Achaeans in defense of the homeland. The work shows the unquestionable virtude SDEL epic hero: courage, strength, prudence, companionship ...

Héctor's life has his culmination in the fighting with Sponsors and Achilles, in which the gods, Apollo, Athena, Poseidon and Zeus himself always take a party.

However, the most dramatic that happens to Héctor, masterfully narrated by Homer, comes with the death of him and the beautiful pugna of Príamo to recover the corpse of him and give him honorable grave