The Trojan War

Wedding of King Pelius and Thetis

Jan 1, 1000

Eris, the goddess of discord was the only uninvited, She threw a golden apple into the wedding that said ''For the Fairest''.Aphrodite Athena and hera all wanted apple , but zeus would not choose between them .

Judgment of Paris

Jan 2, 1000

Was a contest between the three most beautiful goddesses of Olympos Aphrodite, Hera and Athena for the prize of a golden apple addressed to "the fairest".

Paris goes to visit the king Menelaus of Sparta

Jan 3, 1000

For his sake, a fleet of unprecedented size sailed to Troy in order to demand, by persuasion or by force, the restoration of Helen and the Spartan property that the seducer Paris, breaking all laws of hospitality, had stolen.

Paris abducted Helen

Jan 4, 1000

Paris fell in love with Helen wasting little time then abduct her.

Helens old suitors

Jan 5, 1000

Helen's old suitors had made an oath long ago that they would all back Helen's husband to defend her honor.

Cyprus suitor of Helen

Jan 6, 1000

He did not wish to go to war, but promised Agamemnon fifty ships for the Greek fleet,the first ship was commanded by his son,the other forty-nine, however, were toy clay ships, with tiny clay sailors,they broke down soon after being put in the ocean.

Finding Troy

Jan 7, 1000

Finding Troy proved difficult, however, and the Greek fleet at first landed in Mysia, the Greeks were under the impression that Helen had been taken by the Teuthranians,they denied such allegations,Telephus, in the course of the war, was wounded by Achilles,he had been told by an oracle that only the person who wounded him could cure him.

The Trojan war begins

Jan 8, 1000

The first nine years of the war consisted of both war in Troy and war against the neighboring regions,the Greeks realized that Troy was being supplied by its neighboring kingdoms, so Greeks were sent to defeat these areas,as well as destroying Trojan economy, these battles let the Greeks gather a large amount of resources and other spoils of war, including women.

The Trojan horse

Jan 9, 1000

Odysseus ordered a large wooden horse to be built,its insides were to be hollow so that soldiers could hide within it,they gave the wooden horse to the trojan,the Trojans celebrated what they thought was their victory,and dragged the wooden horse into Troy.

The Trojan war

Jan 10, 1000

That night, after most of Troy was asleep or in a drunken stupor, Sinon let the Greek warriors with Odysseus out from the horse, and they slaughtered the Trojans. Priam was killed as he huddled by Zeus' altar and Cassandra was pulled from the statue of Athena and raped