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Frequently asked about Troy

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• Why does Achilles fight for Agamemnon if he hates him?▾

  Achilles despises Agamemnon and openly mocks his authority, but he sails to Troy because his mother Thetis tells him that going will cost him his life yet earn him eternal glory, while staying home will give him a quiet, forgotten existence. Achilles chooses immortal fame through legend over a long life, fighting for his own name rather than for Agamemnon's empire. His later refusal to fight after Briseis is taken shows that his loyalty was never to the king in the first place.

• Why does Achilles attack Troy alone after Patroclus dies?▾

  Patroclus, Achilles' young cousin, secretly wears Achilles' armor into battle to rally the Myrmidons and is killed by Hector, who mistakes him for Achilles. Consumed by grief and guilt, Achilles rides to the gates of Troy the next morning to challenge Hector to single combat. The duel is personal vengeance, not strategy, which is why Achilles fights it alone and refuses to let anyone intervene.

• Why does Achilles spare Briseis and turn against Agamemnon?▾

  Briseis is a priestess of Apollo and a cousin of Hector and Paris, captured during the initial Greek raid on the temple. Agamemnon takes her from Achilles purely to humiliate him and assert dominance, which causes Achilles to withdraw the Myrmidons from the war. Over time Achilles falls in love with her, and at the film's end he is killed while trying to rescue her from the burning city.

• Why does Hector kill Menelaus in the duel that was supposed to end the war?▾

  Paris challenges Menelaus to single combat to settle the war over Helen, but Paris is badly outmatched and crawls back to his brother Hector in terror. To save Paris's life, Hector stabs Menelaus through the stomach, breaking the truce. This act of brotherly loyalty dooms Troy, because it guarantees the Greeks will not leave and frames Hector as the man who must now carry the war on his shoulders.

• What is the meaning of King Priam's night visit to Achilles?▾

  After Achilles kills Hector and drags his body around the walls of Troy, Priam sneaks into the Greek camp alone and unarmed to beg for his son's corpse so he can be given proper funeral rites. The scene humanizes Achilles, who sees his own father in Priam and weeps; he returns Hector's body and grants a twelve-day truce for the funeral. It marks the turning point where Achilles stops being a vengeful killer and begins to recognize the cost of his rage.