Walls of Troy

Place · slug: walls-of-troy

Also: Scaean Gates area

Stories (11)

Zeus’s Promise to Thetis and the False Dream
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 1–2 (divine plot; Agamemnon’s dream; army tested)
Paris and Menelaus: Duel and the Broken Truce
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 3–4
Patroclus in Achilles’ Armor; Death at Hector’s Hands
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 16
Sack of Troy: Priam, Astyanax, Cassandra and Ajax Locrian
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Iliou Persis* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Euripides *Troades*; Homeric allusions)
Trojan Women (Euripides)
Trojan — Sack aftermath · Attic tragic — Euripides *Troades* (*Trojan Women*)
Andromache Allotted to Neoptolemus after the Sack
Trojan — Sack / division of spoils · Epic Cycle / Euripidean / Apollodorean
Astyanax: Death Variants (Neoptolemus vs. Odysseus)
Trojan — Sack / Hector’s heir · Cyclic / Apollodorean / tragic — killer variants isolated
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)
Athena as Deiphobus Deceives Hector (*Iliad* 22)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Hector’s death · Homeric — Athena’s false likeness ends Hector’s flight and seals his doom
Patroclus’s Aristeia (*Iliad* 16)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Patrocleia · Homeric — Patroclus turns the Trojans; kills Sarpedon; presses to the wall

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Walls of Troy

Stories (11)

Characters in shared stories