The Iliad

1950

Special Collections PA4025 A2 LX43

London: Folio Society

Hector, son of King Priam and Prince of Troy, was played by Eric Bana, the Australian actor, in the 2004 film Troy. In Homer’s Iliad, the epic poem on which the movie is based, Achilles (played by Brad Pitt) is enraged by the death of his friend Patroclus, and stabs Hector to death in combat, afterwards dragging his body behind his chariot. In 1950, the Dunedin-born illustrator John Buckland Wright was commissioned by the Folio Society, London, to produce engravings for an edition of the Iliad.