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Ahilejs vazā pa zemi nogalinātā Hektora ķermeni

Godlike Hector is mutilated and dragged round the walls behind Achilles' char iot. Thus he wins his κλέος (glory): "If the hero were really god-like, if he were exempt, as the gods are, from age and death, then he would not be a hero at all."

(c) Ian Morris, "Attitudes Toward Death in Archaic Greece", Classical Antiquity, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Oct., 1989), pp. 296-320