Events mentioned in: Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 17, Fight over Patroclus
- Menelaus learns of Patroclus’ death
- Menelaus protects Patroclus’ body from the Trojans
- Euphorbus tries to get Patroclus’ body from Menelaus
- Menelaus kills Euphorbus and strips him of his armour
- Apollo incites Hector to get Achilles’ horses
- Hector rallies the Trojans to get Patroclus’ body
- Menelaus leaves Patroclus’ body to find Ajax
- Menelaus returns to Patroclus’ body with Ajax
- Hector strips Achilles’ armour from Patroclus’ body
- Hector retreats from fighting Ajax
- Glaukos rebukes Hector for retreating from Ajax
- Hector puts on Achilles’ armour
- The Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians charge the Danaans
- Ajax, Idomeneus, and Meriones come to help protect Patroclus’ body
- Zeus sends a cloud to help protect the body of Patroclus
- Ajax kills Hippothoos and Phorkys
- Apollo, disguised as Periphas, encourages Aeneas to defend Troy
- Apollo recognizes Apollo in disguise
- Aeneas tells Hector and the Trojans that Zeus is on their side
- Aeneas kills Leiokritos
- Lycomedes kills Apisaon
- Automedon fails to get Achilles’ horses to return to the ships
- Alkimedon helps Automedon with Achilles’ horses
- Hector, Aeneas, and two Trojans try to get Achilles’ horses
- Automedon kills Aretos
- Automedon strips Aretos’ body of his armour
- Athena goes through the Achaean ranks to encourage them
- Athena fills Menelaus with strength
- Menelaus kills Podes
- Apollo tells Hector of Podes’ death
- Zeus causes panic amongst the Achaeans
- Polydamas strikes Peneleos
- Hector strikes Leitos in the hand
- Idomeneus strikes Hector in the chest
- Hector kills Koiranos
- Idomeneus flees to the ships
- Menelaus sends Antilochus to tell Achilles of Patroclus’ death
- Antilochus gives his armour to Laodocus
- Antilochus leaves the battlefield to find Achilles
- Menelaus and Meriones carry Patroclus’ body off the battlefield
- Hector kills Schedius
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