Home › Stones of Healing › Stones of Healing: Hector

Stones of Healing: Hector

That the cause of the friendship between Hector and Dolon was the latter's ownership of a hematite is asserted in the Greek Orphic poem "Lithica." This statement must be derived from some annotation to the Iliad made in the Alexandrine schools, for Homer himself knows nothing of it. In the fateful encounter of Hector with Achilles, the form and aspect of Dolon are assumed by Athena to deceive Hector into the belief that his friend was at his side to aid him in the unequal struggle. The blood of Uranus when wounded by Kronos is stated in "Lithica" as the generating cause of hematite, and the stone is recommended as a cure for eye-diseases.