Plain before Troy

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Also: toward Scaean approaches

Stories (10)

Zeus’s Promise to Thetis and the False Dream
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 1–2 (divine plot; Agamemnon’s dream; army tested)
Ajax and Hector: The Day’s Duel and Truce for Burial
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 7
Rhesus (Play Attributed to Euripides)
Trojan — Iliadic night / Thracian ally · Attic tragic — *Rhesus* (transmitted with Euripides; authorship disputed in antiquity and modernly)
Helen’s Teichoscopia: Naming the Greek Heroes (*Iliad* 3)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — wall-viewing (teichoscopia) before the Paris–Menelaus duel
Iris Summons Helen to the Wall (*Iliad* 3)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 3 · Homeric — Iris (as Laodice) fetches Helen for the teichoscopia
Patroclus Arms in Achilles’ Armor (*Iliad* 16)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 16 · Homeric — arming and Achilles’ charge isolated from Patroclus’s death
Kerostasia: Zeus Weighs Hector’s Fate (*Iliad* 22)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / death of Hector · Homeric — golden scales decide Hector’s doom
Agamemnon’s Aristeia (*Iliad* 11)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Book 11 · Homeric — Agamemnon’s morning rampage until wounded
Teucer Shoots from Behind Ajax’s Shield (*Iliad*)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Teucer’s archery · Homeric — bastard son of Telamon; archer paired with Ajax’s tower-shield
Achilles Drags Hector’s Body (*Iliad* 22–24)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / aftermath of Hector’s death · Homeric — piercing of the ankles; dragging behind the chariot; daily outrage at the tomb

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Plain before Troy

Stories (10)

Characters in shared stories