Assembly
Place · slug: assembly
Also: battlefield, contests, nets, folds, shield of Achilles, Trojan plain, plain, mountain of Eryx, exile road, Ida, then overseas in later narratives, citadel, Priam’s house, Dardanian line, in song, Achaean left, Trojan land
- Hecate’s Privileges (Hesiodic)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Olympian settlement / goddess of crossroads · Hesiodic (*Theogony* hymn to Hecate)
- The Keres: Death-Spirits of Night (Hesiod and Homer)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / battlefield death · Hesiodic catalogue + Homeric battlefield Keres
- Aphrodite as Daughter of Zeus and Dione
Olympian gods · Homeric (Olympian parentage; distinct from Hesiodic foam-birth)
- Zeus Hangs Hera with Anvils (Iliad)
Olympian gods — Zeus / Hera conflict · Homeric (*Iliad* recalled punishment)
- Antigone, the Burial of Polynices, and Creon’s Edict
Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Antigone* (+ Apollodorean aftermath)
- Creon of Thebes: Tyranny after the Brothers
Heroes — Theban / Creonid rule · Sophoclean / Euripidean / Apollodorean (post-Seven kingship)
- Heracles and Eryx: Wrestling for the Bull
Heroes — Heracles / side episode on the Geryon cattle-drive · Apollodorean — Eryx slain in wrestling after a runaway bull reaches Sicily
- Diomedes’ Aristeia: Wounding of Aphrodite and Ares
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 5 (with close of 4 / opening of 6)
- Patroclus in Achilles’ Armor; Death at Hector’s Hands
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 16
- Achilles’ Aristeia and the Death of Hector
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 20–22
- Creusa’s Death at Troy (Vergil-Labeled)
Trojan — Sack / Aeneas escape (Roman transmission) · **Roman** — Vergil, *Aeneid* 2 (labeled); Greek notices of Aeneas’s escape lack this full Creusa episode
- Ascanius (Iulus): Brief Greek Notices
Trojan — Aeneas’s line / aftermath · Homeric / Hymnic / Apollodorean / Hellanican (Greek notices; Roman Iulus labeled)
- Eurypylus of Mysia at Troy: Slain by Neoptolemus
Trojan — Little Iliad / Posthomeric endgame · Cyclic (*Little Iliad*) / Apollodorean / Posthomeric (Quintus); Pausanian for Machaon link
- Cassandra’s Prophecies Ignored at Troy
Trojan — Priamid prophecy / sack prelude · Cyclic / tragic / Apollodorean (warnings unheeded in the city)
- Cassandra’s Prophetic Ravings at Mycenae (Aeschylus)
Trojan — Nostoi / Agamemnon’s return · Attic tragic — Aeschylus *Agamemnon*
- Death of Sarpedon (Iliad)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian allies · Homeric (*Iliad* 16)
- Glaucus and Diomedes: Guest-Friendship and Armor Exchange (*Iliad* 6)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian–Argive link · Homeric (*Iliad* 6)
- Hypnos and Thanatos Carry Sarpedon’s Body (Iliad)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian allies / divine escort · Homeric (*Iliad* 16) — Sleep and Death as funeral conveyers
- Lycaon and Achilles (Iliad 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ river aristeia · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
- Asteropaeus and Achilles (Iliad 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Paeonian allies / river fight · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
- Achilles and the River Scamander (Xanthus) — *Iliad* 21
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ aristeia / river combat · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
- Hephaestus Burns the Plain: Fire against Scamander (*Iliad* 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / divine combat / Achilles’ rescue · Homeric (*Iliad* 21)
- Achilles, Aeneas, and Poseidon’s Rescue (*Iliad* 20)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ return / Dardanian fate · Homeric (*Iliad* 20)
- Apollo as Agenor: Decoy That Lures Achilles from the Walls (*Iliad* 21–22)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / lead-in to Hector’s death · Homeric (*Iliad* 21.544–611; transition into 22)
- Hector Waits Alone: Shame, Counsel, and the Scale of Fate (*Iliad* 22)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Hector’s last stand · Homeric (*Iliad* 22.1–213)
- Aphrodite Forces Helen to Paris’s Chamber (*Iliad* 3)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — Aphrodite compels Helen after the duel
- Paris Wounds Diomedes (*Iliad* 11)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 · Homeric — Paris’s arrow ends Diomedes’ fighting day
- Athena Tips Diomedes to Wound Ares (*Iliad* 5)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 5 · Homeric — Athena as charioteer and guide against Ares
- Hera and Athena Arm for War: The Chariot of Hera (*Iliad* 5)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 5 · Homeric — goddesses arm and descend against Ares
- Hera and Athena Blocked by Zeus (*Iliad* 8)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 8 · Homeric — armed descent aborted by Zeus’s threat
- Zeus Lifts the Ban: The Gods May Fight (*Iliad* 20)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 20 · Homeric — revocation of the Book 8 ban; theomachy begins
- Athena Wounds Ares in the Theomachy (*Iliad* 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Athena vs. Ares after the river-fight
- Poseidon Challenges Apollo: Theomachy over Troy’s Walls (*Iliad* 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Poseidon vs. Apollo (verbal challenge; Apollo declines)
- Hera Boxes Artemis’s Ears (*Iliad* 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Hera vs. Artemis after Apollo’s refusal
- Hermes and Leto Refuse Combat (*Iliad* 21)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 21 theomachy · Homeric — Hermes declines to fight Leto; theomachy winds down
- Argus the Dog Recognizes Odysseus (*Odyssey* 17)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Argus’s recognition and death
- Raid on the Cicones at Ismarus (*Odyssey* 9)
Trojan — Odyssey / wanderings begin · Homeric — first post-Troy disaster in Odysseus’s apologue
- Funeral Games for Patroclus: The Chariot Race (*Iliad* 23)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 23 games · Homeric — chariot race as chief contest
- Demodocus Sings of Troy: Odysseus Weeps (*Odyssey* 8)
Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacian court · Homeric — blind bard’s Trojan lays; tears that betray the hero
- Catalogue of Ships (*Iliad* 2)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achaean muster · Homeric — Boeotia-first catalogue of Achaean contingents
- Catalogue of Trojan Allies (*Iliad* 2)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Trojan muster · Homeric — Priam’s allies listed after the Achaean catalogue
- Xanthus and Balius: Achilles’ Talking Horses (*Iliad* 19)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Achilles’ return to battle · Homeric — immortal horses prophesy Achilles’ death
- Pandarus Breaks the Truce (*Iliad* 4)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 4 · Homeric — Athena induces Pandarus’s treacherous arrow
- Ghost of Achilles Demands Polyxena
Trojan — Cyclic *Nostoi* / *Iliou Persis* aftermath / Euripidean · Cyclic / Euripidean — Achilles’ shade requires Polyxena’s sacrifice
- Rhesus and the Thracian Horses (*Iliad* 10)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Doloneia · Homeric — Rhesus slain in his sleep; white horses taken
- Nestor Rescues the Wounded Machaon (*Iliad* 11)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 hinge · Homeric — Paris wounds Machaon; Nestor conveys him; Achilles sends Patroclus
- The Achaeans Build the Wall before the Ships (*Iliad* 7)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 7 aftermath · Homeric — night after Ajax–Hector duel; wall and ditch built without hecatombs
- Poseidon and Apollo Destroy the Achaean Wall (*Iliad* 12)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / wall aftermath aetiology · Homeric — after Troy’s fall the gods wash away the wall (prolepsis in Book 12)
- Aethra Recovered at Troy by Acamas and Demophon
Trojan — Sack / Theseid nostoi · Cyclic / Apollodorean / Plutarchan — Theseus’s mother freed from Helen’s service
- Eos and the Immortality of Memnon (*Aethiopis*)
Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* aftermath · Cyclic — Eos obtains immortality for Memnon from Zeus after Achilles kills him
- Helen Drugs the Wine with Nepenthe (*Odyssey* 4)
Trojan — Odyssey / Telemachy / Sparta · Homeric — Helen’s Egyptian drug that ends grief in the mixing-bowl
- Hector Rebukes Paris (*Iliad* 3 and 6)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Paris and Hector · Homeric — shame-speeches that drive Paris back to battle
- Death of Antilochus at Memnon’s Hands (*Aethiopis*)
Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* · Cyclic / Apollodorean — Memnon kills Antilochus; Achilles avenges him
- Ajax Carries Achilles’ Body from the Fight (*Aethiopis*)
Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Aethiopis* / death of Achilles aftermath · Cyclic — Ajax bears the corpse while Odysseus covers the retreat
- Odysseus Enters Troy in Disguise; Helen Recognizes Him (*Little Iliad*)
Trojan — Epic Cycle / *Little Iliad* · Cyclic / Apollodorean / Euripidean reminiscence — spy mission before the horse
- Hector’s Prayer for Astyanax (*Iliad* 6)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Hector–Andromache farewell · Homeric — baby fright at the helmet; prayer to Zeus
- Demodocus Sings the Wooden Horse (*Odyssey* 8)
Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacian court / Trojan War in song · Homeric — bard’s lay of the horse; Odysseus weeps
- Nestor’s Reminiscence of the Pylian Wars (*Iliad*)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Nestor digressions / pre-Trojan saga · Homeric — Nestor’s youth against Ereuthalion, the Eleians, and the Arcadians
- Diomedes Wounds Aphrodite (*Iliad* 5)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Diomedes’ aristeia · Homeric — Athena’s leave; spear to Aphrodite’s wrist; Aeneas rescued
- Patroclus Borrows Achilles’ Armor (*Iliad* 16)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia prelude · Homeric — Nestor’s plan; Achilles’ limits; Patroclus arms in the Myrmidon panoply
- Agamemnon Tests the Army (*Diapeira*, *Iliad* 2)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 2 assembly · Homeric — false dream aftermath; Agamemnon’s test; flight to the ships; Odysseus restores order
- Helen in Egypt: Recognition and Escape (Euripides)
Trojan — Euripidean *Helen* / post-Troy Egypt plot · Attic tragic — Menelaus finds the real Helen; eidolon vanishes; escape from Theoclymenus
- Imbrius Son of Mentor Slain
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / fighting at the ships · Homeric — Pedaean husband of Priam’s bastard daughter Medesicaste; Teucer kills him; Hector avenges
- Eos and Tithonus
Local and lesser — Dawn / Trojan royal house · Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (+ Homeric *Iliad* / *Odyssey* notices; Apollodorean genealogy)
- Birth of Teucer: Hesione and Telamon
Local and lesser — Salaminian / Trojan prelude (Aeacid line) · Apollodorean (Hesione awarded to Telamon; Teucer as bastard half-brother of Ajax)
- Death of Machaon (Eurypylus)
Local and lesser — Asclepiads / Trojan endgame · Cyclic / Posthomeric / Pausanian
- The Pleiades: Daughters of Atlas (and Orion’s Pursuit)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Atlasid nymphs · Hesiodic / Apollodorean / astral handbook (Eratosthenes / Hyginus)
- Aquila: The Eagle of Ganymede (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Zeus’s eagle · Catasterismic handbook — eagle that bore Ganymede (or Zeus’s bird) placed among the stars
- Helen in Egypt with Proteus (Herodotus)
Local and lesser — Egyptian / Herodotean Trojan variant · Herodotean — Helen detained in Egypt; Troy fought without her
- Aquarius: Ganymede the Water-Bearer (Catasterism)
Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Ganymede · Catasterismic handbook — Ganymede as Aquarius