Achilles sacks the cities of the Troad
1,193 BCE–1,185 BCE* · Event
Iliad 9: "twelve cities of men I have taken by sea, and eleven by land" — nine years of raids that fed the camp and filled it with captives.
On these timelines: Troy: Iliad & Odyssey
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