Hector returns to Troy to ask his mother, Hecuba, and the other woman in the city to pray at the Temple of Athena. After Hector does this he decides to visit his brother Paris to make him fight. Paris replies that he has been recovering from sorrow since men are dying for him. Finally, Paris suits up and sprints to Hector like “a horse that has fed on barley in his stall / Breaking his halter and galloping across the plain” (Iliad 5.533-534). Paris is eager to rejoin Hector like a horse who has just fed and is eager to break free. Paris sprints across the city with the strength of a horse running across a plain. Paris comes down from Pergamum like “a glorious animal head held high, mane streaming / Like wind on his shoulders. Sure of his splendor”