Fall+of+Troy

Fall of Troy

 * === Hector is dead and Achilles knows his own death is close ===
 * === During the battle with the Greeks, Achilles kills Memnon and then falls in front of the Scaean gates ===
 * === Paris shoots an arrow at him and it hits him in the heel; Achilles dies and Ajax carries his body out of battle while Odysseus holds the Trojans back ===

> === Helenus tells the Greeks that Troy can't be defeated unless one of the Greeks fights against the Trojans with the bows and arrows of Hercules === > === ===
 * === Thetis had brought "marvelous arms" from Hephaestus and Ajax and Odysseus both want them, but Odysseus gets the arms ===
 * === Ajax goes to kill Agamemnon and Melelaus because he thinks they turned the vote of the arms against him; Athena makes Ajax go mad; Ajax kills cattle and then regains his mind, feels guilty, and kills himself ===
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 * === The deaths of Achilles and Ajax dismay the Greeks ===
 * === The Greeks capture the Trojan prophet Helenus because he can see the future ===
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 * === Odysseus acquires the bows and arrows ===

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 * === The Greeks learn that Troy can't be defeated until the Palladium is taken; Odysseus and Diomedes steal it ===

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 * === Almost 10 years has passed since the fighting had first started, and the Greeks know they will never finish the war unless they catch the Trojans by surprise ===
 * === Odysseus makes a huge, wooden, hollow horse; many men hide inside the horse and Odysseus forms a plan that would make a Trojan believe he needed to take the horse back to Troy ===
 * === The horse is in front of the Scaean gates in Troy and the Trojans think the Greeks have given up ===

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 * === Sinon, the Greek who had been left behind in the camp, tells the Trojans that Athena was angry about the theft of the Palladium and that a Greek must be sacrificed (it would be him) and he says that the horse is a gift to Athena ===
 * === A man who opposes the entry of the horse is strangled by two snakes, so the rest of the Trojans say to "Bring the carven image in / Bear it to Athena" ===
 * === The Trojans drag the horse in and in the middle of the night the Greeks inside it crawl out ===
 * === The Greeks set fire to all buildings and break into the palace and Priam is struck down; Troy is burnt and defeated ===
 * === Andromache's son Astyanax is the last child left and he is thrown over the wall and killed ===
 * === "Farewell, dear city. / Farewell, my country, where my children lived. / There below, the Greek ships wait." ===