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Hector’s plumed helmet

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Canonical name
Hector’s plumed helmet
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Kind
Item
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
The specific helmet whose horse-hair plume frightens the infant and which Hector removes and later retrieves.

Aliases

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plumed helmet

Descriptive reference · Direct

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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wall of Ilius1 observation
·Hypothetical

Hector considers hypothetically laying his plumed helmet down at the wall of Ilius.

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“What, again, if I were to lay down my shield and helmet, lean my spear against the wall and go straight up to noble Achilles?”

Claims

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·Direct

Hector’s gleaming helmet bears a nodding horse-hair plume that frightens his son, prompting Hector to set it down.

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“horse-hair plume that nodded fiercely from his helmet. His father and mother laughed to see him, but Hector took the helmet from his head and laid it all gleaming upon the ground”
·Direct

Hector retrieves his plumed helmet from the ground.

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“He took his plumed helmet from the ground”
·Direct

Hector’s three-plated visored helmet turns Diomed’s spear and was given by Apollo.

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“bronze was turned by bronze, and Hector was untouched, for the spear was stayed by the visored helm made with three plates of metal, which Phoebus Apollo had given him”
·Direct

Hector’s helmet gleams upon his temples as he leads.

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“his gleaming helmet upon his temples”
·Direct

Hector’s helmet remains fastened about his fallen body while his bronze armour rings from the blow.

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“his shield and helmet were made fast about his body, and his bronze armour rang about him.”

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Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Direct
“the horse-hair plume that nodded fiercely from his helmet”
·Direct
“the visored helm made with three plates of metal, which Phoebus Apollo had given him”

Passage preview

Book 6 · Passage 31

He stretched his arms towards his child, but the boy cried and nestled in his nurse’s bosom, scared at the sight of his father’s armour, and at the horse-hair plume that nodded fiercely from his helmet. His father and mother laughed to see him, but Hector took the helmet from his head and laid it all gleaming upon the ground. Then he took his darling child, kissed him, and dandled him in his arms, praying over him the while to Jove and to all the gods. ‘Jove,’ he cried, ‘grant that this my child may be even as myself, chief among the Trojans; let him be not less excellent in strength, and let him rule Ilius with his might. Then may one say of him as he comes from battle, ‘The son is far better than the father.’ May he bring back the blood-stained spoils of him whom he has laid low, and let his mother’s heart be glad.’’