Single combat
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
combat between Hektor and Ajax · single combat · single combats · the duel · trial by combat
in the texts
Iliad
The formal single combat between Hektor and Ajax, from challenge through fighting to an honorable, gift-marked truce.
Ajax then sprang forward and pierced the shield of Hektor;
let him, then, that will fight me stand forward as your champion against Hektor.
Then Hektor said, "Ajax, heaven has granted you stature and strength, and judgment;
The Rights of War and Peace
The custom of settling disputes by armed combat, cited as originating from private punishment among the Germans.
The practice of private individuals, exercising punishment, was the origin of single combats, so familiar to the Germans before the introduction of Christianity, and not yet sufficiently laid aside.