The omen at Aulis
1,194 BCE* · Event
Iliad 2: a serpent devours a sparrow and her eight nestlings and is turned to stone — Calchas reads it: nine years of war, and in the tenth the city falls.
On these timelines: Troy: Iliad & Odyssey
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- The death of Hector (1184 BCE)
- The Wooden Horse (1184 BCE)
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- The Fall of Troy (1184 BCE)
- The Wrath of Achilles: the Iliad (1184 BCE)
- The Cyclops Polyphemus (1184 BCE)
- The Wanderings of Odysseus (1184 BCE)
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