The Death of Hector

Once the gods have abandoned him, Hector has no chance of winning.

Achilles chases Hector around the walls of Troy until the gods decide to intervene.
So he wavered, waiting there, but Achilles was closing on him now like the god of war, the fighter’s helmet flashing, over his right shoulder shaking the Pelian ash spear, that terror, and the bronze around his body flared like a raging fire or the rising, blazing sun. Hector looked up, saw him, started to tremble, nerve gone, he could hold his ground no longer, he left the gates behind and away he fled in fear—