Lizzie Driver

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2,163 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 6 Aug

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Story of King Arthur, in Twelve Tales · Iliad for Boys and Girls-Alfred John Church · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

for i think that i shall conquer this mighty hector and now i will put on my arms and do you pray father zeus silently if you will that the trojans may not hear or if you had rather pray aloud then do so for i fear no man

None shall conquer me either by force or by craft, for the men of Salamis—it was from the island of Salamis he came—are not to be conquered.

So Ajax put on his armour, and when he was finished he went forward, as dreadful to look at as the god of war himself.

And there was a smile on his face, but it was not the smile that other men like to see.

Taking great strides he went, and he shook his great spear.

And when the Trojans saw him their knees trembled beneath them, and even the great Hector felt his heart beat more quickly than before.

But he showed no fear, and stood firmly in his place, for he himself challenged his adversary.

So Ajax came near, holding his great shield before him, as it might be a wall.

There was no such shield in all the army of the Greeks.

It had seven folds of bull's-hide, and one fold, the eighth, of bronze.

Then Ajax spoke in a loud voice, Come near, Hector, that you may see what men we have among us, we Greeks, though the great Achilles is not here, but sits idle in his tent.

Hector answered, Do not speak to me, Ajax, as though I were a woman or a child, and knew nothing of war.

I know all the arts of battle.

To turn my shield this way and that, to meet the spear of the enemy—

and to drive my chariot through the crowds of men and horses and to fight hand to hand but come let us fight openly face to face as honest men should do and as he spoke he threw his great spear at ajax through six folds of bull's-hide it passed but the seventh stopped it for all that it was so strongly thrown it was no easy thing to pierce the great shield with its seven folds

But when Ajax in his turn threw his spear at Hector, it passed through his shield and through the armour that covered his body, and went through the garment that was under the armour.

It went near to killing him, but Hector bent his body away, and so saved himself.

Then each took a fresh spear, and ran together as fiercely as lions or wild boars.

Again did Hector drive his spear against the great shield, and again did he drive it in vain, for the spear-point was bent back.

But Ajax, making a great leap from the ground, pierced Hector's shield with his spear, and pushed him back from the place where he stood.

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