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The Trojan War
- The Greeks cross over the sea and lay siege to Troy
- Menelaos assembles a Greek force after the abduction of Helen
- The Greeks sail across the Aegean, calling in at Delos, and attack Mysia in the belief that it is Troy
- The Greeks make a successful crossing after the sacrifice of Iphigeneia, attack Tenedos, and abandon Philoctetes
- The Greek landing at Troy and death of Protesilaos
- The first nine years of the conflict
- Some noble families at Troy, and the failure of the Greek embassy
- The earlier years of the war
- Odysseus and the murder of Palamedes
- Foreign allies and final confrontations
- The events of the Iliad
- Three foreign allies of the Trojans: Rhesos, Penthesileia, and Memnon
- The death of Achilles and suicide of Ajax
- Preconditions for the fall of Troy; Philoctetes shoots Paris, Neoptolemos kills Eurypylos, and Odysseus steals the Palladion
- The fall of Troy and sack of the city
- Notes
Abstract
Chapter 21 recounts the history of the Trojan War as presented in early epic and the subsequent tradition. The last part of the chapter explains how the fall of Troy was finally achieved through the stratagem of the Trojan Horse, and describes the events of the sack and the various grim fates that were suffered by surviving members of the Trojan royal family.
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