The news of Hector’s death spreads around the Greek camp in Scene 9. Agamemnon asks the others to march along quietly, and asks that someone be sent to call Achilles to his tent. He says that if Hector has indeed died and if the gods are with the Greeks in his death, then Troy is theirs and ‘our sharp wars are ended.’

Troilus announces the news of Hector’s death to Aeneas, Paris, Antenor and Deiphobus at the beginning of Scene X and everybody is aghast. Troilus who labels Achilles a ‘great-siz’d coward’ vows vengeance. He then calls for a brisk march back to the city and says that ‘Hope of revenge shall hide our inward woe’, as the Trojan party exits leaving him behind. Pandarus enters and attempts to catch his attention. Troilus tells him to get away, contemptuously calls him ‘broker-lackey’ and hopes ignominy and shame becomes synonymous with his name.

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