The Nine Warriors who Volunteered to fight Hector

The nine warriors who agree to challenge the great Trojan fighter Hector include:

1. the leader of all the Achaean forces, Agamemnon

2. Tydides son, Diomedes

3. the Little Ajax

4. the Great Ajax

5. Idomeneus, the son Deucalion, commander of the troops from Crete

6. Idomeneus' aide, Meriones, who was an adequate match for Hector

7. Eurypylus, Euamon's gallant son, commander of the Thessalians from

Ormenion

8. Thoas, son of Andraemon,commander of the Aetolians

9. and Odysseus, son of royal Laertes