Timeline of important event during the Trojan war

By EricL
  • 1200 BCE

    #3 The sacrifice of Iphigenia

    The Greek's where mobilizing and under the command of Agamemnon, waiting at Aulis for the winds too turn in there favor, but It never came, until a seer named Calchas came by and told Agamemnon that the goddess Artemis was mad about him boosting about his hunting skills. The goddess asked the commander too sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia if he wanted too turn the winds. He lured her with a wedding too get married too Achilles, but this lead too Iphigenia getting sacrificed.
  • 1200 BCE

    #5 Patroclus portraits Achilles

    Achilles had a dear friend in Troy named Patroclus, he tried too convince Achilles too fight again because he could shift the tides of war, but Achilles refused, until Patroclus suggested that he would fight as Achilles, he accepted and leaded him his armor and troops. He got into battle, killing multiple Trojan's until the Trojan hero came, Hector and killed Patroclus, grieved by the death of his good friend, Achilles returned too Agamemnon and he returned Briseis and Achilles returned.
  • 1200 BCE

    #1 The golden apple

    The goddess' are having a beauty contest, the reward being a golden apple. Prince Paris selects Aphrodite, as a reward for selecting her, she tells the prince he will be rewarded with the most gorgeous woman in the world, that woman being Helen of Troy. Even though she is already married too King Menelaus of Sparta.
  • #2 Paris steals Helen
    1200 BCE

    #2 Paris steals Helen

    As Prince Paris was a guest of King Menelaus, he stole Helen from the king. Before Menelaus and Helen got married, she was abducted before by Theueus, so Menelaus got a promise from all the other suitors that they would come too Menelaus' aid of Helen even got stolen again
  • 1200 BCE

    #4 Captured priestess of Apollo

    The leader of the Greeks, Agamemnon Captured a priestess of Apollo, as he rejected too return her, the Greek's were struck by a pelage, the seer, Calchas was summoned. He proposed that if he returned the priestess, the pelage would vanish, so he did, but as compensation he took Achilles lady, Briseis. This made Achilles so mad that he refused too fight for Agamemnon.
  • 1200 BCE

    #6 Achilles kills and dishonors Hector

    Achilles and Hector got into one one battle and Achilles killed Hector, enraged and bitter about the death of Patroclus, Achilles dragged Hector's body around by his chariot. After a couple days, Priam, Hector's father persuaded Achilles too stop dragging the body around.
  • #7 The Achilles heel
    1200 BCE

    #7 The Achilles heel

    Achilles was shot in the knee by Prince Paris with the help of Apollo's divine guidance in his only weak spot, Achilles heel. Achilles was dipped in the Styx river by his mother, Thetis too make him immortal, although only one spot was kept dry, his heel.
  • 1200 BCE

    #8 Deciding the next greatest hero

    After the death of Achilles, the Greek's needed too decide who should have Achille's armor and be the next hero for the Greek's. Odysseus was decided, which enraged Ajax, as he tried too kill some solders and leading too him committing suicide with the sword he got with a trade from Hector.
  • 1200 BCE

    #9 The arrows of Herakles

    The seer, Calchas returns with more insight, saying that the Greek's needed the bow of Herakles too defeat the Trojan's and win the war. Philoctetes was wounded on the island of Lemnos and was brought too the battlefield, shooting Prince Paris with one of the poisonous arrows, not leaving much of a scratch, but just like Achilles, one shot was all that was needed too kill Prince Paris.
  • #10 The Trojan horse
    1200 BCE

    #10 The Trojan horse

    Odysseus thought of a plan too end the Trojan war, To create a massive wooden horse, filled with Greek solders and devise a fake retreat, making the wooden horse seem like a peace offering. When the Trojan's noticed the Greeks fleeing and the wooden horse outside the city gates, they haled in inside the city and had a massive party. As night fell, the Greeks returned and the solders inside the horse opened the gate, burning down the city and winning the war, And returning Helen too Melelaus.