Events mentioned in: Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 6, Hector & Andromache

  1. Dionysus takes refuge in the Sea with Thetis
  2. Nestor rallies the Argives against the Trojans
  3. Helenus instructs Hector and Aeneas in the defence of Troy
  4. Hector rallies the Trojans against the Achaeans
  5. Glaucus and Diomedes engage in single combat
  6. Iobates commands Bellerophon to fight the Chimera
  7. Bellerophon kills the Amazons
  8. Iobates gives Bellerophon his daughter, Philonoe, in marriage
  9. Philonoe gives birth to Isandros, Hippolochus, and Laodamia
  10. Laodamia sleeps with Zeus
  11. Laodamia gives birth to Sarpedon
  12. Glaucus and Diomedes declare a truce and exchange their armour
  13. Theano prays to Athena to spare the wives and children of the Trojans
  14. Hector criticizes Paris for not joining in the fighting against the Achaeans
  15. Andromache pleads with Hector not to fight against the Achaeans
  16. Andromache and her household mourn Hector
  17. Ajax kills Acamas
  18. Euryalus pursues and kills Aesepos and Pedasos
  19. Euryalus strips Aesepos and Pedasos of their armor
  20. Abarbarea gives birth to Aesepos and Pedasos
  21. Adrastus is captured and begs Menelaus to spare his life and take him as a hostage
  22. Agamemnon kills Adrastus
  23. Antaea attempts to seduce Bellerophon and is rebuffed
  24. Bellerophon fights the Solymoi
  25. The Trojans and Achaeans fight each other at the Simoeis and Xanthos rivers
  26. Diomedes kills Axylos and Kalesios
  27. Euryalus kills Dresus and Opheltios
  28. Polypoetes kills Astyalos
  29. Odysseus kills Pidytes
  30. Teucer kills Aretaon
  31. Antilochus kills Ablerus
  32. Agamemnon kills Elatus
  33. Leitus kills Phylacus
  34. Eurypylus kills Melanthos
  35. Lycurgus drives the nursing women of Dionysus through Nysa and beats them with his oxgoad
  36. Zeus strikes Lycurgus blind
  37. Antaea tells Proetus that Bellerophon attempted to seduce her and urges Proetus to kill him
  38. Proeteus refuses to kill Bellerophon and sends him to be killed by Iobates instead
  39. Bellerophon wanders the Alean Plain gnawing his own heart
  40. Ares kills Isandros while he is fighting the Solymi
  41. Laodamia is killed by Artemis
  42. Oeneus hosts Bellerophon for twenty days, during which time the two exchange gifts
  43. The Achaeans are defeated outside Thebes
  44. Hector instructs Hecuba to gather her women and make an offering at the temple of Athena
  45. The women of Troy ask Hector for news of their kinsmen
  46. Hecuba offers Hector wine to make an offering to Zeus
  47. Hecuba selects an embroidered Sidonian robe to offer as tribute to Athena
  48. Paris acknowledges the criticism of Hector and assures him that he will join the fight
  49. Helen attempts to soothe Hector’s anger by admonishing herself and Paris
  50. Hector asks Helen to urge Paris to join the fight
  51. Hector searches for his wife and son, questioning his servants as to their whereabouts
  52. Achilles kills Eetion
  53. Hector tells Andromache that he cannot walk away from fighting the Achaeans
  54. Hector holds his son, Astyanax, and prays to Zeus that he might surpass his father in all things
  55. Hector reassures Andromache and asks her to return home
  56. Paris dons his armor and makes his way to Hector’s side
  57. Hector urges Paris to make things right with the Trojans and join him in defeating the Achaeans
  58. Acamas comes from from Thrace
  59. Axylus lives in Arisbe
  60. Pidytes comes from Perkote
  61. Elatus comes from Pedasos
  62. Menelaus agrees to take Adrastus alive, but is stopped by Agamemnon
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