Troy: Iliad & Odyssey

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Key events on this timeline

• 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 Cyclops Polyphemus (1184 BCE)
• The Wrath of Achilles: the Iliad (1184 BCE)
• The Wanderings of Odysseus (1184 BCE)
• The death of Achilles (1184 BCE)
• Ithaca: the Homecoming (1175 BCE)
• The death of Patroclus (1184 BCE)
• The Judgement of Paris (1210 BCE)
• The contest of the bow (1175 BCE)
• The Road to War (1211 BCE)
• Paris carries Helen to Troy (1195 BCE)
• A thousand ships sail for Troy (1194 BCE)
• Odysseus among the dead (1183 BCE)
• The Siege of Troy (1194 BCE)
• Priam ransoms Hector's body (1184 BCE)
• Seven years on Calypso's island (1182 BCE)
• The Returns of the Kings (1184 BCE)
• Agamemnon takes Briseis: the quarrel (1184 BCE)
• Circe of Aeaea (1184 BCE)
• Penelope and the olive-tree bed (1175 BCE)
• The funeral of Hector (1184 BCE)
• The Sirens (1183 BCE)
• The shield of Achilles (1184 BCE)
• The murder of Agamemnon (1184 BCE)
• Argos the dog knows his master (1175 BCE)
• Hector and Andromache at the Scaean Gate (1184 BCE)

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