The marks of our heroes are acts of courage and bravery, as well as the nobility of their purpose; even going so far as to sacrifice their ephemeral lives by defending the lives of brothers in arms or ideals greater than themselves. In the Iliad, the heroic code administers the underlying conflict between the Achaeans and the Trojans, both recognizing the presence of their unwritten code. For the ancient Greeks, a hero had only one task to accomplish: live in honor and leave with glory. How this was accomplished varied from hero to hero. Nevertheless, honor and glory were held in the highest esteem. For Homer's heroes, a life without honor meant a meaningless existence. The heroic code presented by Homer is easily identifiable, because it is at the heart of war. In fact, the Trojan War was the very result of Paris's sin of adultery with Helen, the wife of a foreign king. Yet, despite the presence of the code, the group's radically different perceptions of the hero as to how he should be religiously revered or what it means to be a "hero". We see this in Achilles and Hector, heroes larger than the stories they inhabit, present an interesting contrast in the way these men live by the code. Hector, champion of Troy, demonstrates a more humane or humble idea of ​​heroism. Hector does not fight for glory simply to obtain it, but because he seeks it as a means of prolonging his own as well as that of his neighbors. Conversely, Achilles is motivated above all by his own desire and status. Distancing himself from Hector, Achilles plunders only to glorify himself, even at the expense of those close to him to the end. Hector, from the beginning of this epic, appears as an archetypal hero. While Hector is killed by Achilles, Hector is, in the middle of the paper, and does not assuage his guilt. War is the great crucible of heroes: such darkness forces men to question their ideals, their identities, their hearts, while forcing participants to draw on unknown reserves of energy. It is interesting to see how Hector and Achilles diverge, converge, and ultimately change as the Iliad unfolds. At first, Hector is the human warrior who shows restraint, but in the end, the war turns him into nothing more than a brute. Achilles, once full of vanity, who would gladly have abandoned his friends; although in the conclusion, Achilles unleashes his anger on the Trojan army, annihilating all who oppose him. War can therefore make a man stronger, like Achilles, or even break a man, like Hector. Basically war, crime, murder and other horror shows were the men who really stand and are ready to stand in the face of death..