
The Iliad
The Classical Mind
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Hector's Kill
This is one of our favorite lines in the whole thing. This is in book 22 when a kill is coming after Hector. He sees Achilles about to come after him and says, no way out. And then this is the bit so he wavered waiting there. But Achilles was closing on him now like the God of war. It's so good. After all of this, like, psyching himself up and I'm gratifying, he's probably going to kill me, but I'm going to die like a man.
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