The Iliad: Book VI: 283-337; 366-436

1. He tells the women to pray to the gods. This shows that he is worried that the gods will hurt the Trojans. And now, when Hector reached the Scaean Gates and the great oak, the wives and daughters of Troy came rushing up around him, asking about their sons, brothers, friends and husbands. But Hector only told them "Pray to the Gods"
2. 25 boys and 6 girls. And deep within its walls were fifty sleeping chambers masoned in smooth, lustrous ashlar, linked in a line where the sons of Priam slept beside their wedded wives, and facing these, opening out across the inner courtyard, lay the twelve sleeping chambers of Priam's daughters, masoned and roofed in lustrous ashlar, linked in a line where the sons-in-law of Priam slept beside their wives.
3. She offers Hector honeyed, mellow wine. He rejects this because he says it will sap his limbs, and he will lose his nerve for war. I'll bring you some honeyed, mellow wine. "Don't offer me me mellow wine, mother not now--you'd sap my limbs, I'd lose my nerve for war.
4. Hector told her to go to Athena's shrine with older noble women and to bring a nice large robe and put it on Athena's knee. He asks his mother to do this because he wants Athena to have pity on Troy. Go to Athena's shrine, the queen of plunder, go with offerings, gather the older noble women and take a robe, the largest, loveliest robe that you can find throughout the royal halls, a gift that far and away you prize most yourself, and spread it out across the sleekphaired goddess' knees. Then promise to sacrifice twelve heifers in her shrine, yearlings never broken, if only she'll pity Troy.
5. Contrast: In book III Paris and Hector were just insulting each other but in book VI, they are going to fight. So come, wait while I (Paris) get this war-gear on, or you go on ahead and I will follow-- I think I can overtake you.
6. She feels that it is not good. She says he has no steadiness in his spirit and that he never will. I wish I had been the wife of a better man, someone alive to outrage, the withering scorn of nem. This one has no steadiness in his his spirit, not now, he never will.
7. Helen says that Zeus planted a killing doom within her and Hector. Oh the two of us! Zeus planted a killing doom within us both, so even for generations still unborn we will live in song."