Menelaus and Helen astray in Egypt
1,184 BCE–1,176 BCE* · Event
Odyssey 4: blown to Egypt and stranded seven years, until Menelaus wrestles the shape-shifting Old Man of the Sea for the way home.
On these timelines: Troy: Iliad & Odyssey
More from Troy: Iliad & Odyssey
- The Sack of Troy (1184 BCE)
- The death of Hector (1184 BCE)
- The Wooden Horse (1184 BCE)
- The slaughter of the suitors (1175 BCE)
- 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)
Around 1184 BCE
- Zhou dynasty (1046 BCE)
- Exodus from Egypt (1300 BCE)
- Moses (1391 BCE)
- Phoenician alphabet emerges (1050 BCE)
- Reign of Ramesses II (1279 BCE)
- Ramesses II (the Great) (1303 BCE)
- Zoroaster composes the Gathas (1100 BCE)