HECTOR-TURKEY, ACHILLES-GREEKS
Hector, mighty Hector, whence the verb "Hectoring," of old Troy in Turkey, was alleged to have been a bad dude, one terrible dude, until one mightier, one more terrible, Achilles, beat him in battle, then beheaded him, and drug his body triumphantly behind his chariot around the walls of Troy to be seen by all. Yet, Achilles, histrionics aside, was soon felled, himself, by an errant arrow that struck his "Achilles" tendon, eponymically-named now for this famous Greek fatality.
Yet, through it all, impregnable Troy, still stood, despite the deaths of legends, Hector and Achilles, and despite the siege of Greece.
But Greeks were crafty craftsmen. As they were pretending to leave, to put out to sea, to sail in triremes for their home they rolled out a great, beautiful, wooden horse before the gates of Troy and left it, saying nothing. Jubilant Trojans deeming this Grecian gift to be the Greeks' tribute to Trojans' pluck and peerless nobility, threw open their gates; rolled the "Greek gift" inside; and celebrated themselves far into the night. Before dawn, when they were all drunk with wine, exhausted, from feasting, sexual revelry, and hectoring, fell soundly asleep.
Then it was that the crafty Greek soldiers emerged from their carefully crafted horse gift, to slay where Troy lay drunk.
This legend of diverse Greeks and Turks has come down to us from the pen of Homer, the first literate Greek, in THE ILIAD. These tales of Troy's subsequent, epic, civilization-survivorship sea-odyssey of fleeing Trojans who later became warring Romans, is told in Homer's THE ODYSSEY, and recovered, documented, verified by Schliemann in archaeology, who dug deep to find found Troy's walls.

HECTOR-TURKEY, ACHILLES-GREEKS
Hector, mighty Hector, whence the verb "Hectoring," of old Troy in Turkey, was alleged to have been a bad dude, one terrible dude, until one mightier, one more terrible, Achilles, beat him in battle, then beheaded him, and drug his body triumphantly behind his chariot around the walls of Troy to be seen by all. Yet, Achilles, histrionics aside, was soon felled, himself, by an errant arrow that struck his "Achilles" tendon, eponymically-named now for this famous Greek fatality.
Yet, through it all, impregnable Troy, still stood, despite the deaths of legends, Hector and Achilles, and despite the siege of Greece.
But Greeks were crafty craftsmen. As they were pretending to leave, to put out to sea, to sail in triremes for their home they rolled out a great, beautiful, wooden horse before the gates of Troy and left it, saying nothing. Jubilant Trojans deeming this Grecian gift to be the Greeks' tribute to Trojans' pluck and peerless nobility, threw open their gates; rolled the "Greek gift" inside; and celebrated themselves far into the night. Before dawn, when they were all drunk with wine, exhausted, from feasting, sexual revelry, and hectoring, fell soundly asleep.
Then it was that the crafty Greek soldiers emerged from their carefully crafted horse gift, to slay where Troy lay drunk.
This legend of diverse Greeks and Turks has come down to us from the pen of Homer, the first literate Greek, in THE ILIAD. These tales of Troy's subsequent, epic, civilization-survivorship sea-odyssey of fleeing Trojans who later became warring Romans, is told in Homer's THE ODYSSEY, and recovered, documented, verified by Schliemann in archaeology, who dug deep to find found Troy's walls.

