Events mentioned in: Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 2, The Catalogue of Ships
- Thamyris loses his musical ability in a contest with the Muses
- Artemis shoots down Niobe’s daughters
- Apollo shoots down Niobe’s sons
- The Greek expedition for Troy musters at Aulis
- Philoctetes is bitten by a snake
- Achilles captures Lycaon
- Achilles conquers Lyrnessus
- Zeus makes Ganymede his cupbearer
- Aphrodite and Anchises have sex
- Aphrodite gives birth to Aeneas
- Poseidon gives Peleus immortal horses, Balius and Xanthus
- Erechtheus was born from the soil (Gaia), but fostered by Zeus’ daughter Athena
- Menelaus urges his men to fight
- Agamemnon finds ships for Arcadians
- Meges fights with father and flees hometown to settle in Dulichium
- Zeus sends a lying Dream to Agamemnon
- Agamemnon receives a dream message from Zeus
- Agamemnon sends heralds to gather the Greek army
- Agamemnon discusses his dream message in a meeting with the Greek leaders
- Agamemnon announces his plan to test the Greek army with a false instruction to return home
- Agamemnon gives a false order that the Trojan War be abandoned and the Greek army return home
- The Greek army heads to the ships in preparation to leave Troy
- Hera sends Athena to convince the Greek army to stay in Troy
- Athena tells Odysseus to convince the Greek army to stay and fight in Troy
- Odysseus persuades the Greek army to stay and fight in Troy
- Thersites delivers an invective against Agamemnon’s leadership
- Odysseus reproaches Thersites for his criticism of Agamemnon and beats him
- Odysseus addresses the Greek army in an effort to persuade them to stay at Troy
- The Achaeans see a snake eat nine sparrows then turn into stone
- Kalkhas declares that the stone snake is a sign from Zeus that the Achaeans will take Troy in ten years
- Nestor exhorts the Greek army to remain at Troy and continue to prosecute the war
- Nestor advises Agamemnon to split the Greek army into clan-groups
- The Greek army goes back to their camps to rest before battle
- Agamemnon sacrifices a bull to Zeus
- Agamemnon prays to Zeus that he might kill Hector
- Nestor advises Agamemnon they should begin fighting right away
- The Greek expedition against Troy musters at Aulis
- The Greek army forms up for an assault on Troy
- The Boeotians send ships to Troy
- Ascalaphus, Ialmenus, and the Minyans send ships to Troy
- Astyoche has sex with Ares
- Askalaphus and Ialmenus are born
- The Phocians send ships to Troy
- Ajax and the Locrians send ships to Troy
- The Euboeans send ships to Troy
- Menestheus and the Athenians send ships to Troy
- Ajax and the Salaminians send ships to Troy
- Diomedes and the Argives send ships to Troy
- Agamemnon and the Mycenaeans send ships to Troy
- Menelaus and the Spartans send ships to Troy
- Nestor and the Pylians send ships to Troy
- Agapenor and the Arcadians send ships to Troy
- Agamemnon provides ships to the Arcadians in the expedition against Troy
- The Eleans send ships to Troy
- Meges and the Dulichians send ships to Troy
- Odysseus and the Cephallenians send ships to Troy
- Thoas and the Aetolians send ships to Troy
- Idomeneus and the Cretans send ships to Troy
- Tlepolemus and the Rhodians send ships to Troy
- Hercules carries off Astyochea from Ephyra
- Tlepolemus is born
- Tlepolemus kills Likymnios
- Tlepolemus and his fleet settle Rhodes
- Nireus and the Symaeans send ships to Troy
- Phidippus, Antiphus, and the Coans send ships to Troy
- Achilles and the Myrmidons send ships to Troy
- Achilles withdraws from the fighting in the Trojan War
- Achilles takes Briseis prisoner
- Protesilaus and his troops send ships to Troy
- Protesilaus is killed upon disembarking at Troy
- Podarces assumes sole leadership of his contingent of troops at Troy following the death of his brother
- Eumelus and the Pheraeans send ships to Troy
- Philoctetes and the Olizonians send ships to Troy
- Philoctetes is marooned on Lemnos
- Medon assumes Philoctetes’ role as leader of troops
- Podalirius and the Triccaeans send ships to Troy
- Eurypylus and the Ormenians send ships to Troy
- Polypoetes and the Gyrtonians send ships to Troy
- Polypoetes is born
- Guneus and his troops send ships to Troy
- Prothous and the Magnesians send ships to Troy
- Apollo breeds horses
- Achilles holds back his ships
- The Greeks attack Troy in force following Achilles’ refusal to fight
- Zeus sends Iris to warn the Trojans that the Greeks are preparing to attack
- Iris warns Priam and the Trojans about a Greek attack
- The Trojans open the gates and prepare to defend Troy against the Achaeans
- The Trojans and their allies divide their forces
- Hector leads the Trojans into battle against the Achaeans
- Aeneas and the Dardanians join the Trojans as allies
- Pandarus and his troops join the Trojans as allies
- Adrastus, Amphius, and their troops join the Trojans as allies
- Merops tells Adrastus and Amphius not to take part in the Trojan war
- Asius and his troops join the Trojans as allies
- Hippothous and the Pelasgians join the Trojans as allies
- Acamas and the Thracians join the Trojans as allies
- Euphemus and the Cicones join the Trojans as allies
- Pyraechmes and the Paeonians join the Trojans as allies
- Pylaemenes and the Paphlagonians join the Trojans as allies
- Odius, Epistrophus, and the Alizones join the Trojans as allies
- Chromis, Ennomus, and the Mysians join the Trojans as allies
- Ennomus is killed by Achilles
- Phorcys, Ascanius, and the Phrygians join the Trojans as allies
- Mesthles, Antiphus, and the Maeonians join the Trojans as allies
- Nastes, Amphimachus, and the Carians join the Trojans as allies
- A Carian leader is killed by Achilles and stripped of his gold
- Sarpedon, Glaucus, and the Lycians join the Trojans as allies
- Athena goes amongst the Achaeans and raises their morale
- Zeus calls a counsel of the gods
- Zeus allows the gods to join the fighting in the Trojan War
- Hera, Athena, Poseidon, Hermes, and Hephaestus join the Achaean troops in battle
- Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Leto, Scamander, and Aphrodite join the Trojan troops in battle
- Athena rouses the Greek troops with a battle cry
- Ares rouses the Trojan troops with a battle cry
- Poseidon shakes the earth
- Hades fears Poseidon will crack the earth and expose his domain
- Apollo sends Aeneas to fight Achilles
- Hera, Athena, Poseidon, Hermes and Hephaestus withdraw from the battle to the hill of Herakles
- Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Leto, Scamander, and Aphrodite withdraw from battle to Kallikolone Hill
- Dardanos founds Dardania
- Dardanos has a son named Erichthonius
- Boreas mates with Erichthonius’ three thousand mares
- Erichthonius’ mares give birth to twelve fillies by Boreas
- Erichthonius has a son named Tros
- Tros has three sons
- Ilus has a son named Laomedon
- Laomedon has fives sons
- Assaracus has a son named Capys
- Capys has a son named Anchises
- Aeneas fights Achilles
- Poseidon rescues Aeneas
- Poseidon tells Aeneas to avoid Achilles in battle
- Apollo tells Hector not to fight Achilles
- Hector withdraws into the Trojan ranks
- Achilles kills Iphition
- Achilles kills Demoleon
- Achilles kills Hippodamas
- Achilles kills Polydorus
- Achilles and Hector engage in battle
- Apollo protects Hector
- Achilles kills Dryops
- Achilles kills Demoukhos
- Achilles kills Laogonos
- Achilles kills Dardanus
- Achilles kills Tros
- Achilles kills Moulios
- Achilles kills Echeklos
- Achilles kills Deucalion
- Achilles kills Rhigmos
- Achilles kills Areithous
- Achilles divides the Trojan forces at the bank of the river Xanthos
- Achilles enters the river and massacres the Trojans
- Achilles spares twelve Trojans to sacrifice
- Achilles sends Lycaon to Lemnos
- Lycaon is bought by Euneus
- Eetion frees Lycaon
- Eetion sends Lycaon to Arisbe
- Lycaon escapes from Arisbe
- Lycaon returns home to Troy
- Achilles sees Lycaon in the river and thinks he has returned from the dead
- Lycaon prostrates himself before Achilles and begs for his life
- Achilles rebukes and kills Lycaon
- Xanthus empowers Asteropaeus to fight Achilles
- Achilles kills Asteropaeus
- Achilles strips Asteropaeus of his armour
- Achilles pursues the Paeonians
- Achilles kills Thersilokhos, Mydon, Astypylos, Mnesos, Thrasios, Oeneus, and Ophelestes
- The river Xanthus takes human form
- Xanthus warns Achilles to stop polluting his waters with corpses
- Apollo continues his onslaught against the Trojans
- Xanthus tells Apollo that he is not following Zeus’ order to defend the Trojans
- Achilles enters the river Xanthus a second time
- Xanthus attacks Achilles with great waves
- Achilles asks the gods to save him from Xanthus
- Poseidon and Athena appear to Achilles and reassure him he will not die in the river
- Achilles attempts to overcome Xanthus’ assault
- Xanthus invokes the aid of Simoeis against Achilles
- Hera orders Hephaestus to distract Xanthus from his attack on Achilles
- Hephaestus starts fires on Xanthus’s banks
- Xanthus, scalded by Hephaestus, relents in his attack on Achilles
- Xanthus swears not to defend the Trojans again
- Hera calls off Hephaestus’s attack on Xanthus
- The gods begin to quarrel with one another
- Ares attacks Athena
- Athena strikes Ares down and mocks him
- Hera sees Aphrodite leading Ares from the fray and tells Athena to go after her
- Athena attacks Aphrodite
- Poseidon urges Apollo to fight him
- Artemis criticizes Apollo for refusing to fight Poseidon
- Hera beats Artemis until she runs away weeping
- Hermes refuses to fight Leto
- Artemis cries to Zeus that Hera beat her
- Priam orders that the gates of Troy be left open for the Trojans fleeing from Achilles
- Apollo protects the Trojans outside Troy
- Apollo inspires Agenor to stay behind and wait for Achilles
- Agenor and Achilles fight
- Apollo spirits Agenor away to safety
- Apollo disguises himself as Agenor and leads Achilles away from the Trojan host
- The Trojan host returns to the safety of the city walls
- Apollo reveals to Achilles that he has been deceived
- Priam warns Hector that Achilles is approaching the city and urges him not to engage him in combat
- Hecuba begs Hector to come inside the walls of Troy and protect the city
- Hector runs in fear from Achilles, who pursues him around Troy three times
- Zeus asks the other gods whether Hector should live or die at the hand of Achilles
- Athena reminds Zeus that Hector is fated to die
- Zeus gives Athena permission to seal Hector’s fate
- Achilles pursues Hector until Apollo is too tired to continue protecting him
- Achilles warns the Achaean host not to attack Hector
- Zeus uses his golden scales to weigh the doom of Hector and Achilles
- Hector’s doom unbalances Zeus’ scales
- Apollo abandons Hector to his fate
- Athena appears to Achilles and urges him to kill Hector
- Athena takes on the appearance of Deiphobus and offers Hector her help against Achilles
- Hector agrees to fight Achilles, but stipulates that the winner will return the body of the loser to their people undesecrated
- Achilles rejects Hector’s terms and attacks him
- Achilles and Hector fight
- Achilles taunts the dying Hector
- Hector pleads with Achilles to return his body to his people, but Achilles refuses
- Hector tells Achilles that Paris and Apollo will kill him
- Hector dies
- Achilles strips Hector of his armour
- The Achaeans take turns wounding Hector’s corpse
- Achilles postpones mounting an attack on Troy in order to defile Hector’s corpse
- Achilles attaches Hector’s corpse to his chariot and drags him around in front of the city gates of Troy
- Hecuba and Priam mourn the death of Hector
- Andromache, unaware of Hector’s death, prepares for his return
- Andromache learns of Hector’s death and mourns him, joined by the women of Troy
- Achilles keeps the Myrmidons on the field to mourn Patroclus
- Achilles leads the cry of lament for Patroclus
- Achilles provides the Myrmidons with a banquet
- The Achaeans take Achilles to Agamemnon’s tent
- Achilles refuses to bathe
- Achilles is visited by Patroclus’ spirit
- Patroclus’ spirit mentions Achilles’ fate to die at Troy
- Agamemnon’s men collect wood for a bier
- Myrmidons cut locks of their hair to put on the body of Patroclus
- Achilles cuts the lock of hair that Peleus promised to Sperchius
- The Myrmidons and the Achaean princes perform the death ritual of Patroclus
- Achilles kills twelve Trojan noble sons to put on the bier with Patroclus
- Aphrodite protects Hector’s body from dogs and decay with ambrosial oil
- Apollo protects Hector’s body from drying out
- Achilles calls on the winds to light Patroclus’ pyre
- Iris fetches Boreas and Zephyrus for Achilles
- The Ethiopians offer hecatombs to the Olympians
- Boreas and Zephyrus make the pyre of Patroclus burn all night
- Achilles mourns Patroclus
- The Achaeans collect Patroclus’ remains in an urn
- The Achaeans build a temporary barrow for Patroclus
- Achilles hosts funeral games for Patroclus
- Funeral Games of Patroclus: Achaeans compete in a chariot race
- Funeral Games of Patroclus: Diomedes chariot races using the horses of Aeneas
- Funeral Games of Patroclus: Menelaus chariot races using his horse and one of Agamemnon’s
- Echepolos gives Agamemnon a horse to avoid the Trojan War
- Funeral Games of Patroclus: Nestor advises Antilochus in how to race a chariot
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Phoenix is the umpire
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Eumelus takes the lead
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Apollo sabotages Diomedes
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Athena helps Diomedes
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Athena sabotages Eumelus
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Eumelus is thrown from his chariot
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Antilochus passes Menelaus
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Idomeneus and Ajax argue over who is in the lead
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Idomeneus and Ajax place bets on the winner
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Diomedes wins first place
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Antilochus comes in second place
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Menelaus comes in third place
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Meriones comes in fourth place
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Eumelus comes in last place
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Achilles pities Eumelus for losing
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Achilles attempts to give Eumelus second prize
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Antilochus argues against giving Eumelus his prize
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Achilles awards Eumelus a separate prize from his own tent
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Menelaus gets angry at Antilochus
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Menelaus wants Antilochus to swear he didn’t cheat
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Antilochus gives his prize to Menelaus
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Menelaus gives second prize back to Antilochus
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Menelaus takes third prize
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Meriones gets fourth prize
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Chariot race: Achilles gifts the fifth prize to Nestor
- Nestor boasts of his strength and skill as a youth
- Funeral Games of Patroclus: Achilles hosts a boxing match
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Boxing Match: Epeus volunteers first
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Boxing Match: Euryalus volunteers to face Epeus
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Boxing Match: Epeus wins first prize
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Boxing Match: Euryalus wins second prize
- Funeral Games of Patroclus: Achilles hosts a wrestling contest
- Funeral Games of Patroclus: Achilles stops the wrestling match
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Wrestling Match: Ajax and Odysseus take equal prizes
- Funeral Games of Patroclus: Achilles hosts a running competition
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Running Contest: Odysseus prays to Athena in order to run faster
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Running Contest: Athena sabotages Ajax
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Running Contest: Odysseus wins first place
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Running Contest: Ajax wins second place
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Running Contest: Antilochus wins third place
- Funeral Games of Patroclus: Achilles rewards Antilochus
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Achilles calls for a display of armed combat
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Achilles awards Sarpedon’s sword to Diomedes
- Funeral Games of Patroclus: Achilles hosts a throwing competition
- Funeral Games of Patroclus: Polypoetes wins the iron quoit
- Funeral Games of Patroclus: Achilles hosts an archery contest
- Funeral Games of Patroclus: Meriones wins the archery contest
- Funeral Games of Patroclus: King Teucer takes second place in archery contest
- Funeral Games of Patroclus: Achilles hosts a javelin contest
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Javelin Contest: Achilles gives the first prize to Agamemnon
- Funeral Games of Patroclus - Javelin Contest: Agamemnon gives the second prize to Meriones
- The Funeral Games of Patroclus end, and the assembly breaks up
- Achilles weeps and grieves without sleep over Patroclus’ death
- Achilles drags Hector’s dead body behind his chariot daily
- The gods disapprove of Achilles treatment of the body of Hector
- The gods beg Hermes to steal Hector’s body from Achilles
- Apollo gets angry at the gods for letting Achilles dishonor Hector’s body
- Hera is furious at the idea of giving Hector equal honour to Achilles
- Zeus plans to take Hector’s body away from Achilles
- Zeus sends for Thetis
- Zeus sends Thetis to tell Achilles to release Hector’s body
- Thetis tells Achilles to release Hector’s body to Priam
- Zeus sends Iris to tell Priam to retrieve Hector’s body
- Iris tells Priam to pay the ransom and get Hector’s body from Achilles
- Iris tells Priam that Hermes will take him into the Greek camp alone
- Iris promises Priam he need not fear Achilles
- Priam prepares the ransom for Hector’s body to give to Achilles
- Hecuba fears for Priam going into the Greek camp
- Priam yells at the sons he has left for being disgraces
- Priam’s remaining sons prepare his wagon
- Hecuba makes Priam give an offering to Zeus
- Zeus sends Priam a good omen
- Zeus sends Hermes to escort Priam to Achilles’ tent
- Hermes disguises himself as a Myrmidon
- Hermes takes Priam to Achilles
- Priam learns of the condition of Hector’s corpse
- Priam, not recognizing Hermes as a god, offers him reward to take him to Achilles
- Hermes gives Priam a hint about his true identity
- Hermes sends Priam into Achilles’ tent
- Priam kisses the hands of Achilles
- Priam askes Achilles to have empathy for his plight
- Priam offers Achilles the ransom
- Achilles’ squires unload the ransom from Priam’s wagon
- Achilles’ servants anoint the body of Hector
- Achilles convinces Priam to eat
- Achilles grants Priam twelve days without combat to bury Hector
- Priam sleeps in Achilles’ tent
- Hermes wakes Priam to leave the Greek camp
- Cassandra announces that Priam has returned with Hector’s body
- The people of Troy meet Priam at the gates
- Andromache leads the lamentation for Hector’s death
- Hecuba sings a lamentation for Hector
- Helen sings the last lamentation for Hector’s death
- The Trojans hold a funeral for Hector
- Iphition is born to a Naiad in Hyde near Mount Tmolos
- Rhigmos comes from Thrace
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