The trojan war by Emilee Anderson

the Trojan war comes to an end

1028 BCE

at the end of the Trojan war, Hecuba's daughter Polyxena was killed on Achilles grace. with this, the fighting ceased completely.

troy in ruins, andromache faced with an awful fate

1027 BCE

with troy destoyed, andromache still had her son astyanay. when she was told she had to throw her son from a tower, she did so.

hector faces his fate

1021 BCE

Ighoring his parents plea to go to safety, hector waits at the gates of troy for Achilles. when Achilles arrives with Athena, he fleas and is chased until halted by Athena. disguised as hector's brother Deiphobus, Athena tricks him into going back to face Achilles with a false ally. he is killed by Achilles who strips him of his armor, straps his feet to his chariot, and ride around troy's walls with hector's body dragging, the gods are angered by the innecessary abuse.

Achilles vows to end hector, seeks out his mother's help

1020 BCE

Achilles goes to his mother after receiving word of patroclus death. he already knows that he is going to die directly after hector but that is the least of his worries. Thtis then gives Achilles the best armor ever to be worm by a mortal.

Patroclus reaches out to Achilles

1019 BCE

Patroclus goes to Achilles and tells that he must go to fight rather then allow the Greeks to die on the almost burning ships. Achills refuses, but gives him his shield and armor as well as control over the fighters. all was well and going smoothly until patroclus faced hector. hector drove a spear into, patroclus giving him a mortul would. subsequently patroclus soul was sent to the underworld.

Trojans push the Greeks farther back than before

1018 BCE

Apollo revives hector after his near death experience at the hand of ajax while the Greeks are again driven back to their ships.

the Trojan war turns Aganinst the Greeks once more

1017 BCE

Hera claims that everything that happened while Zeus was unconscious was poseidon's doing Zeus then asked poseidon to stop helping the Greeks, he obey in the wake of these new events the Trojan rally back.

battle turns in favor of the Greeks

1016 BCE

ajax almost kills hector, but Aeneas takes him away. also, the Greeks drive the Trojans back very far and would have ruined them and troy had Zeus not woken up from his slumber induced by Hera's Beautly.

Agamemnon Attemps Reconciliation with Achilles

1015 BCE

Agamemnon sends Odysseus And Two Messengers to make the Offer of Briseis as well as money gifts to Achilles in Order for his Forgiveness. Achilles completely refuses and tells them that should do as he is going to do and sail back home. the Greeks brush off this advice and instead go to fight, thus being driven onto the beaches where their ships were waiting. Hera then makes herself so beautiful that she makes Zeus forgot about his promise to Thetis.

Zeus remembers his promise to Thetis to avenge Achilled wrongs

1014 BCE

Zeus tells all the immortuols to stay away from the fighting and goes himself to help the trojans. with Zeus they drive the Greeks almost all the way back to their ships

hector goes to see wife and son

1013 BCE

when he arrives, his wife tells him to stay with her and not make her a widow, but he denies her wishes and instead goes to hug his son who is scared of his helmet, so he takes it off in order to say goodbye to the one he loves.

Diomedes meets hector, fighting ensues

1012 BCE

it is actually Ares, the god of war, who is fighting for hector. Hera gets wind of this and so she goes to help drive Ares away. when Diomedes them throws a spear, it is driven into Ares, body by Athena. ares goes to Zeus to complain about what happened and was told to quit whining. Consquently, the trojans are forced to fall back with the loss of Ares.

Ajax and Diomedes take Achilles place as top fighters for the Greek

1011 BCE

prince Aeneas, closest in bravery to hector, was almost killed by Diomedas. his mother Aphrodite came to Cnsole him, but Diomedus hurt her hand because he knew she was weak. Aphrodite let Aeneas fall through and fled to olympus where Zeus mused that she was one foe war and that she Sould instead stay home. through it all, Aeneas is not killed.

Athena interferes

1010 BCE

upon Hera's request, Athera interfered in the fighting. Menelaus would have been declared the victor in his fight with Paris and Helen would have gone back to troy, but instead Athena urged Pandarus to shoot an arrow at Menelaus, wounding him and angering both sides of the Trojan war into starling up the fighting all over again.

Paris and Menelaus fight

1009 BCE

after Helen spins tales to the Trojans about the Greek Heroes, the battle ceases, both sides drew back, and it became apparent that Paris and Menelaus are about to face off. during the fighting, Menelaus is almost able to drag Paris back to Greece, but Aphrodite breaks his helmet strap and causes it to come off in Menelaus hand. with this Aphrodite brings Paris back troy.

Zeus agrees to Trojan victory devises a plan

1008 BCE

Zeus understands that the Greeks are nothing without Achilles, and he sends Helen to the Trojans to talk all about Greeks Heroes

Achilles turns to Thetis for council, thetis turns to zeus

1007 BCE

thetis tells Achilles that he sould have nothing to do with the greeks because of Agamemnon. after thetis goes to zeus and requests that he give victory to be Trojans.

Agamemnon crosses Achilles

1006 BCE

After the return of Chrysers, Agamemnon sent for Achilles prizes woman, briseis. when the two fetchers arrived at his camp, Achilles then made them listen to hisvow that Agamemnon would be severely punished for his actoms and drsires.

Greeks vs. Trojans 9 years pass

1003 BCE

as a side note, both the Greek and the Trojans were Fiercs fighters throughtout the Trojan war. the Heroes of the two countries were Hector and Achiles, of troy and greece, respectively, much to the dismay of themseles and those around them, it was predicted that they would die young in the war, since the greeks landed on the shore of troy, nine years pass.

menelaus calls for an army to go fine helen they embark

1002 BCE

brother of agamemnon and helen's chosen husben who was made the king of sparta, menelaus was able to get odysseus and achilles to reluctantly travel with him. the group of greek fighters met at aulis, the place of the great winds. the wind never ceased to blow, stulling the fleet in beginning their journey. as it turns out, artemis was unhappy because the greeks had killed a haer along with its young.

greek fleet arrives at troy

1002 BCE

it was prophesize that the first ashore would in turn be the first to die. the unfortanats soul that had this to face was protesilaus, who steeped ashore the mouth of to simois before anybody else. his wife, laodmia, killed herself after hermes brough him back a second time foe her to see and grieve over his dead body.

paris carries off helen of troy

1001 BCE

helen, the fairest woman in all the world who had suitors flocking to her as well as the daughter of zeus, was carried off by paris after he was led to her by apurodite.

judgment of paris (cont)

1000 BCE

paris was in the country in troy living with the nymph oneone because it was prophesize that he would ruin troy. the three goddesses had bribed him all into choosing them as the owner of the apple of discord. hera said that she would make him the lord of euope and asia, Athena promised him that he would lead the trojans to victory against the greeks and destroy greeks, aphrodite told him that she would make the fairest woman in all the world his.

judgment of paris (2nd cont)

1000 BCE

with these offers laid out in front of him, paris chose aphrodite as the recipient of the apple. though he would have the fairest woman in the world as his, the judmant of paris is the real reason as to why the trojan war was fought

judgment of paris

1000 BCE

When king Peleus and the sea nymph Thetis were getting married, they invited everybody except for Eris. Greatly angered, she went to the banquet hall where the marriage was taking place and threw an apple, the apple discord, into the room. On it was inscribed ''for the fairest'' it could not be decided who the recipient of the apple would be, so Hera, aphrodite, and pllas Athers all ventured to paris, prince of troy, in the country for him to decide.