Who are the most important characters of Trojan War?

Homer's epics are at the same time "heroic epics". The main actors of the war are Achaean Achilles and Tojan Hector. To be a hero in Homer's epics is not an easy task. Just on this point the gods intervene: the one who has no relationship with gods has no chance to be a hero. Therefore, these heroes sometimes rise to the same level as gods and appear as half-gods, but sometimes the gods become human. Hector is the most important character among the heroes who sometimes become divine. We can describe Hector first of all as faithfull to his duty, a patriot who swear to defend his land. He is the simplest hero of Homer. Although he know right from the start that Troy will fall, he never escapes, he left his wife and his child and runs to war, to death.

The first hero he overcomes is Ajax, and his call on the grave of Ajax is like a heroic ballad. On the proceeding episodes of the war, Hector's fellow Polydamas gives him advices to protect him. Most of the advice he follows, except the one that he shouldn't fight against Achilles. He accepts a one to one fight with Achilles and in fact choses consciously his own death. After one of a kind fights, our hero is defeated. Both he dies and the city falls. Achilles is so cruel during the funeral of Hector, even the gods regret the situation. Old king Priamos, takes from Achilles his son's grave and brings it to Troy. Trojan women grieve for their Hector. Nine days and nights they bring woods for his grave's fire, and at the tenth day the funeral rites begin. The Iliad ends with this scene.