Hector is the better Hero because he fights in the place of Paris when Paris is too weak to fight, he cares about his wife and child’s safety, and he is not a coward, even when he faces Achilles. Phyllis Taylor declares, “Hector remains intimately bound to his family and society and must at all costs defend them (“The Iliad: A Practical Approach” paragraph 35).” The first way that Hector shows that he is devoted to his family is by allowing Paris to surrender to Menelaus, and fighting the battle for him. Only a devoted hero would fight a battle that is caused by something their brother did. Secondly, Hector is devoted to his wife and child because he takes his wife down to a secret passageway that leads out of troy and tells her that if