War

The Trojan War by Saryn Laserna

By Malachi Roldan
  • 1195 BCE

    The Judgment of Paris

    Contest between goddesses Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena to see who was the fairest. The prize was a golden apple and Paris was the one to decide.
  • 1195 BCE

    Paris Abducts Helen

    Aphrodite promises Paris can have Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, even though she was already the wife of Menelaus. He still abducts her.
  • 1194 BCE

    Beginning of Trojan War

    war waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.
  • Period: 1194 BCE to 1184 BCE

    The Trojan War

  • 1193 BCE

    Agamemnon Rounds up Troops

    Agamemnon gets Achilles, Odysseus, and many others to fight by his and his brother Menelaus side to go to Troy and take back Helen
  • 1192 BCE

    Apollos Plague

    Agamemnon captured a priestess of Apollo. When the Greek leader refused to return the priestess to her father, a plague struck the Achaeans
  • 1190 BCE

    Patroclus Fights as Achilles

    Achilles friend from Troy, Patroclus, persuades Achilles to let him lead his troops into battle. But great Trojan hero, Hector, mistakes Patroclus for Achilles and kills him.
  • 1189 BCE

    Achilles Kills Hector

    Achilles finds Hector in battle and kills him. Filled with grief and anger for Patroclus he took Hectors dead body and dragged it around on his chariot
  • 1189 BCE

    Achilles Heel

    Achilles later was killed from being wounded in the one spot he wasn't immortal, his heel. With the help of Apollo, Paris shot an arrow to his heel.
  • 1188 BCE

    Next Greatest Hero

    After the fall of Achilles, Achaeans believed Odysseus was the hero that came next in stature to Achilles.
  • 1187 BCE

    Aphrodite Helps Paris Once Again

    When Paris was in danger of being killed Aphrodite frees him from the grasp of Menelaus and he returns to Helen
  • 1186 BCE

    Arrow of Hercules

    Philoctetes, who had arrows from Hercules shot one at Paris. It barely left a scratch but it was enough to kill the Trojan prince
  • 1185 BCE

    Odysseus Returns

    Odysseus came up with a way to end the war: the creation of a giant wooden horse filled with Achaeans to be left at the gates of Troy. The Trojans believed the horse was a peace offering and brought it inside their gates. The Trojans celebrated by getting drunk and when they all fell asleep the Achaeans in the wooden horse snuck out and killed of the Trojans men and took the women prisioner.
  • 1184 BCE

    The End of The Trojan War

    The Achaeans began their dangerous voyage back home.