What's an extraordinary passage from the Iliad?If you can quote it that would be awesome but you don't have to

You will get many answers to this.  There are many
extraordinary passages in the work.  For my bet, I think that the prayer Hector offers
the gods in favor of his son is really powerful.  It is at this moment that we see
Hector at his best and we see what tragedy is.  The ancient definition of tragedy is
what drives the entire work.  This idea is rooted that tragedy is the collision between
equally desirable, but ultimately incompatible courses of action.  In the end, human
beings are reduced to the agonizing decision of choice without any sort of redemption in
either end.  Hector represents this beautifully in Book VI.  Andromache, as a good wife,
begs her husband to not fight and Hector realizes that while he does not want to fight
and die, he also does not want to live as a coward.  In the end, this becomes the
fundamental tragic predicament.  Hector's prayer to the gods for his son is a moment
where there is some level of comedy to this tragic end, punctuated by the son who is
terrified of his father in his battle armor.  Even a prayer to the gods cannot resolve
Hector of his pain and the brutal agony of his narrative.  This passage highlights that
beautifully.