SYNOPSIS OF THE TROJAN CYCLE |
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SYNOPSIS OF THE TROJAN CYCLE |
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| CYPRIA (11 books) | Stasinus of Cyprus (c. 650 B.C.) |
| ILIAD (24 books) | Homer (of Chios ?) (c. 750 B.C.) |
| AETHIOPIS (5 books) | Arctinus of Miletus (c. 750 B.C.) |
| LITTLE ILIAD (4 books) | Lesches of Mytilene (c. 660 B.C.) |
| SACK OF ILIUM (2 books) | Arctinus of Miletus (c. 750 B.C.) |
| THE RETURNS (5 books) | Agias of Troezen (?) (c. 725 B.C.) |
| ODYSSEY (24 books) | Homer (of Chios ?) (c. 725 B.C.) |
| TELEGONY (2 books) | Eugammon of Cyrene (c. 568 B.C.) |
CYPRIA - The events leading up to the attack on Troy; Marriage of Peleus and Thetis; Judgment of Paris; Abduction of Helen; Gathering of armies at Aulis; Sacrifice of Iphigenia; Philoctetes; Landing at Troy; Razing the countryside and neighboring towns; Achilles meets with Helen; Achilles gets Briseis as a slave; Agamemnon gets Chryseis as his concubine.
AETHIOPIS - Penthesilea is killed by Achilles; Achilles kills Thersites for abusing him about his supposed love for the Amazon; Memnon, son of Eos, with armor made by Hephaestus, comes to fight Achilles; Memnon kills Antilochus, son of Nestor; Achilles kills Memnon; Eos gets immortality for her son; Achilles attacks Troy and is killed by Paris and Apollo; Ajax carries his body back to the ships, while Odysseus defends him; Mourning for Achilles; Dispute between Ajax and Odysseus over Achilles' arms; Suicide of Ajax.
LITTLE ILIAD - Judging of Achilles' armor; Odysseus wins by Athena's guile; Ajax goes mad, kills herd, and commits suicide; Helenus caught; Philoctetes brought to Troy; Philoctetes is healed and kills Paris; Deiphobus marries Helen; Neoptolemos comes from Scyros; Odysseus gives him his father's arms; Epeius builds the Wooden Horse; Odysseus sneaks into Troy and plots with Helen; Odysseus and Diomedes steal the Palladium; Wooden Horse brought into Troy; the Sack of Troy; Neoptolemos throws Astyanax off the wall and takes Andromache.
SACK OF ILIUM - The Wooden Horse is taken into Troy; Laocöon and the snakes; Sinon; the Sack of Troy; Neoptolemos kills Priam by the altar of Zeus; Menelaus finds Helen; Ajax Oileus rapes Cassandra by a statue of Athena; Greeks sacrifice Polyxena at the tomb of Achilles; Odysseus murders Astyanax; Neoptolemos takes Andromache.
THE RETURNS - Athena causes Agamemnon and Menelaus to quarrel about the voyage from Troy; Agamemnon stays to appease Athena; Diomedes and Nestor get safely home; Menelaus blown off course to Egypt; Ghost of Achilles warns Agamemnon of his fate; Murder of Agamemnon; Vengeance of Orestes; Menelaus returns home.
TELEGONY - Suitors buried; Odysseus goes to Thesprotis and marries Queen Callidice; Odysseus returns to Ithaca; Telegonos, son of Circe, comes and kills Odysseus unwittingly; Telegonos takes the body back to Circe, along with Penelope and Telemachus; Circe makes them all immortal; Telegonos marries Penelope; Telemachus marries Circe.
