In the ninth year of the siege Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek host and Achilles, its best warrior had a quarrel. Achilles sulked in his tent and refused to fight for fourteen days. During this time the Trojans attacked the Greek encampment. In the battle Hector, the champion of the Trojans, a brother of Paris, fought and killed Patroclus which forces Achilles back into battle to avenge his friend. He engages in single combat with Hector while the Trojans look on from the walls of the city and the Greeks from their side of the plain. Hector is slain and to complete his revenge Achilles drags the body of the dead warrior around the walls in the dust. Hector’s aged father Priam then comes humbly to Achilles to ransom the body of his son.