Cover page -- Halftitle page ;Seriespage -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Binge-watching the Iliad -- Previously on ... The Iliad -- Beats -- Episodes -- Arcs -- Character change -- Character overhaul -- Character transformation (Stockholm syndrome?) -- Experiencing Hektor -- 1 Enter Hektor -- In media res -- Diegetic introduction: 1.233-350 -- Thetis: 1.351-611 -- Achaians assemble: 2.1-394 -- Hektor on the horizon: 2.394-473 -- Catalogue: 2.474-785 -- Reveal: 2.786-810 -- Trojan catalogue: 2.811-3.14 -- Enter Paris: 3.15-37 -- Hektor and Paris: 3.38-75 -- Setting terms: 3.76-120Troy-time: 3.121-260 -- Trusted oaths (untrustworthy sons): 3.261-302 -- Duel: 3.303-448 -- Missing in action: 3.448-61 -- Gods: 4.1-72 -- Broken oaths: 4.73-220 -- Ready to rumble: 4.220-421 -- Battle: 4.422-543 -- Overhaul: 5.1-453 -- Returns: 5.454-532 -- Battle: 5.533-89 -- Overhaul: 5.590-627 -- Sarpedon: 5.628-78 -- Hektor: 5.679-710 -- Silent type: 5.711-909 -- Achaians kill: 6.1-36 -- Even the unborn: 6.37-72 -- Mission: 6.73-118 -- Face- off : 6.119-236 -- Troy-time: 6.237-85 -- Mission continued (Hekabe): 6.242-85 -- Mission impossible: 6.286-311 -- Mission (Paris and Helen): 6.312-68 -- Mission (Andromache): 6.369-5022 Killing Time -- Maybe next time: 6.503-7.16 -- Callback: 7.17-91 -- Achaians: 7.92-213 -- Fight/Night: 7.214-312 -- Wall alignment: 7.313-44 -- Troy-time: 7.345-80 -- Death all round: 7.381-8.51 -- Battle: 8.52-197 -- Hera/Zeus: 8.198-252 -- Battle: 8.253-334 -- Overhaul-ish: 8.335-437 -- Hera/Zeus: 8.438-84 -- Die another day: 8.485-9.88 -- Embassy: 9.89-713 -- Spy vs Spy: 10.1-579 -- All day permanent red: 11.1-162 -- Hektor rising: 11.163-368 -- Injuries: 11.369-488 -- Hektor returns: 11.489-594 -- Mission, Achilles: 11.595-848 -- Wall alignment: 12.1-39 -- Hektor, whirlwind: 12.40-83 -- Mission crew: 12.84-109Wall fight!: 12.110-94 -- Hektor/Wall: 12.195-289 -- Wall fight.
Summary
This book presents a rigorous philological examination of every instance where Hektor enters the Iliad, analysing each entrance's narrative context and style. In so doing, the author challenges and destabilises previous popular and scholarly assumptions about Hektor, and about the Iliad as a whole.
