I read that Hercules was alive during the Trojan war.In a battle who would have won Hercules or Achilles?

Question

The greek mythology book I read said that Hercules was alive during the Trojan war. Was Achilles more skillful than Hercules? Would Hercules have overpowered Achilles?

KilroyMaster, I never said I thought that Hercules real, it was just a fantasy battle I thought up!!

Answer 1

Hercules was part god he would have won. Achilles was just a mortal.

Answer 2

Hercules was not in the Trojan War. He was 1 or 2 generations before Achilles. He conquered Troy but many years before the Trojan War. Now in a battle with Achilles , i think that the winner would be Hercules. They both are demigods, but Hercules have for father the strongest god , Zeus. Achilles has for mother the goddess Thetis , but she is not strong like Zeus.

However, I believe that it would be a very hard and difficult battle !

Answer 3

Hercules was very strong and half a god, being the son of almighty Zues. But he fought primarily with a club. Club fighting is clumsy and relies on strength. Achilles was protected from harm except on his heel. Achilles was a skilled warrior. Since Hercules was only half a god he was therefore half human. Therefore he could die. In the end, Achilles would win but only barely. perhaps after achilles killed Hercules, he would die of exhaustion.

Answer 4

It would be pretty evenly matched, Hercules was half-god and Achilles was part-god as well (his mother was a minor river goddess) though since Hercules was the son of Zeus, he may have had more strength, who knows? But good question.

Answer 5

The only was Hercules could win would be if he knew about achilles' heel. Otherwise Achilles was indestructible.

Nick R - Achilles' mother was a demigoddess.

Answer 6

All Hercules would have to do is get Achilles heel; which by all accounts he didn't put armour on.

Answer 7

Hercules had died a few years before he Trojan war. It was his arrows, that had been dipped in the Hydra's blood, making them lethally poisonous, that killed Paris. It was said that he gave his bow and arrow to a young lad called Philoctetes who agreed to step up and light his funeral pyre when nobody else would. Along with the Hydra blood, it was said these arrows never missed. By bring those arrows to battle Troy Philoctetes was fullfilling one of the last prophersies regarding the downfall of the city.
As to who would win....if those arrows never missed...Hercules!

Answer 8

Well, since Achilles could not be killed, hercules may have eventually fallen, but it would have been a titanic struggle

Answer 9

i think it would be a close call. but i think Hercules would have won, because Achilles downfall was his heel. that was his demise. had Hercules struck Achilles heel, Achilles would have fallen. my personal opinion

Answer 10

achilles was killed by paris. paris was not one of the strongest among priam's sons.

in greek mythology when a javelin has your name on it you die (the concept is called 'ate'). if achilles met heracles the winner would depend on which was fated to be the winner.

destiny is a strong idea in all the greek stories. hector was probably a greater warrior than achilles, but hector was fated to die so achilles was able to kill him.

(shakespeare has a different version of the story).

when achilles himself died his panoply (armour and weapons) was to be awarded to the next greatest of the greek warriors. the next greatest of the greek warriors after achilles was ajax. but fate had decided that the panoply would go to odysseus - so that is what happened.

all of the great greek warriors at troy were fated to destroy the town, but then again all of them (except odysseus) were also fated to die miserably within a few years of returning home (or sooner).

and this is what happened: agammemnon murdered by his wife, ajax losing his mind and commiting suicide, achilles killed by a lucky bowshot.

the victor of every combat is the hero whom the gods have chosen.