Hector

June 1, 2000 BC Dear War Journal,

The Greeks are attacking! Prepare your battle stations oh Trojans! At least, they already attacked earlier this week. They have the great warriors Aias and Agamemnon, so we have to be really careful. I am Hector the great of Troy! Today the Greeks broke through our lines. Agamemnon raced through the hole in our lines and slew two of our warriors that were my brothers. Many men did he slay. Then I leapt into my chariot and slew nine warriors of the Greeks. Then Diomedes lifted his spear and flung it at me. Fortunately it hit my helmet. Unfortunately, the force of the blow took upon me. Then my brave brother, Paris, gave a bitter wound to Diomedes. Even though I disapprove of my brother Paris for taking the wife of Menelaus, Helen, I thank him for that. While my Trojan army and Odysseus were fighting, I was fighting a battle against a Greek army led by Nestor and Idomeneus. Paris caused many a trouble that day. He struck the great healer, Machaon, with an arrow.

After the great healer Machaon was taken from the battlefield, I moved positions. I stood outside the wall the Greeks built to protect their ships with my army of Trojans. If only I could get inside! They would never know I was coming and I could slay the great heroes who attack my father's, King Priam's, city. An omen suddenly appeared in the sky as we stood there. An eagle and within its talons, a blood red snake. The both were wounded from fighting with each other. While they were flying over the Trojans and Greeks, the serpent struck the eagle with its fangs, and the eagle dropped the snake. The serpent landed across my army's path. They would have fled because they thought it was an omen from Zeus, but I ordered the cowards to bring the battle to the ships and to fight for Troy! Then I lifted up a great stone and threw it at the strongly set gate. The stone broke through the gate and the great gate fell. We were in! The Greeks were so surprised they fled back to there ships in dismay and terror. I threw a spear at Aias, but unfortunately it struck him where the belt of his sword and shied crossed, so it did not hurt him. Aias then threw a great stone at me. It struck me in the breast. It sent me spinning like a top. It hurt so much! I fell to the ground.

I don't remember what happened next but I woke up on the plain by hearing the words of a god saying "Hector, son of Priam, why dost thou lie fainting, apart from the host? Dost thou not know that the battle is desperate? Take up thy spirit again. Bid thee charioteer drive thee toward the ships of the Greeks." War journal, I will tell you more tomorrow. Right now I need rest from a hard day of fighting.

Goodbye war journal, The Great Prince Hector