Greeks vs Troy

Greeks vs Troy

The Greek forces who fought in the Trojan war, and/or were part of the expedition to Troy.

Events
  1. The Greek army arrives in Mysia and ravages it, mistaking it for Troy
  2. Telephus and the Mysians chase the Greeks back to their ships
  3. The Greek army are separated from each other at sea and land in their own countries
  4. The Greek army musters at Aulis a second time
  5. Telephus shows the Greeks a course for Troy
  6. Calchas says that the Greek army cannot sail until Iphigenia is sacrificed to Artemis
  7. The Greek army arrives at Tenedos
  8. Tenes is killed by Achilles
  9. Philoctetes is bitten by a snake
  10. The Greeks land at Troy
  11. The Greeks fortify their position outside Troy and are chased therein by the Trojans
  12. The Trojans force the Greeks behind their fortifications
  13. The Greeks decide to send emissaries to Achilles
  14. The Greeks decide to send Odysseus and Diomedes among the Trojans as spies
  15. Odysseus and Diomedes sneak into the Trojan camp
  16. Memnon kills Antilochus
  17. The Greek army buries Achilles with Patroclus in the White Isle
  18. The Greeks celebrate funeral games for Achilles
  19. Athena drives Ajax insane
  20. Calchas prophesies that Troy will not fall unless the Greeks have the bow and arrows of Hercules
  21. Helenus says that Troy will fall if the bones of Pelops are brought to the Greeks, if Neoptolemus fights with them and if the Palladium is stolen from Troy
  22. Odysseus and Diomedes bring the Palladium to the Greeks
  23. The Greeks abandon their camp at Troy
  24. The Greeks conceal their fleet at Tenedos
  25. Those smuggled into the city in the wooden horse open the gates for the Greek army
  26. The Greeks set fire to Troy
  27. The Greek army distribute among themselves the spoils from Troy
  28. The Greeks throw Astyanax from the walls of Troy
  29. The Greeks sacrifice Polyxena to Achilles
  30. Calchas says that Athena is angry with the Greeks because of Ajax’ impiety
  31. The Greeks leave Ajax behind at Troy
  32. Nauplius lures ships to their destruction with a beacon
  33. Nauplius contrives that the wives of the Greeks play their husbands false
  34. Some Greeks settle in Libya after the Trojan War
  35. Some Greeks settle in Italy after the Trojan War
  36. Some Greeks settle in Sicily after the Trojan War
  37. Some Greeks settle in Iberia after the Trojan War
  38. Some Greeks settle near the Sangrius River after the Trojan War
  39. Some Greeks settle in Cyprus after the Trojan War
  40. Agamemnon gives a false order that the Trojan War be abandoned and the Greek army return home
  41. The Greek army heads to the ships in preparation to leave Troy
  42. Thersites delivers an invective against Agamemnon’s leadership
  43. Odysseus addresses the Greek army in an effort to persuade them to stay at Troy
  44. Nestor exhorts the Greek army to remain at Troy and continue to prosecute the war
  45. The Greek army goes back to their camps to rest before battle
  46. The Greek army forms up for an assault on Troy
  47. Having reassembled in Aulis, the Greeks could not find someone who could lead them to Troy
  48. When the Trojans refuse to return Helen, the Greeks prepare to attack Troy
  49. The Trojans try to prevent the Greeks from landing by throwing rocks
  50. Achilles recovers Briseis
  51. The Greeks send for the bones of Pelops
  52. Odysseus and other Greek warriors hide in the wooden Trojan Horse
  53. The Greek forces hide with their ships from the Trojans
  54. Odysseus is appointed leader of the Greeks hiding inside the wooden Trojan Horse
  55. Sinon is temporarily left behind at Troy by the Greeks
  56. Sinon lights a beacon as a signal to the Greeks
  57. Helen tries to lure the Greeks out of the wooden Trojan Horse
  58. Zeus sends a storm against Greek ships sailing home from Troy
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