AFTER THE ILIAD
Fall of Troy and Achilleus While attempting a truce, Achilleus is slain by poison arrow shot by Paris Lots of attempts to defeat Troy Finally: large horse offered as sacrifice to Athena
Trojan Horse Greek ships appeared to sail away; really hid behind neighboring island Greek “prisoner” taken, who told Trojans that Greeks did not want horse to go inside city walls (prophecy that if that happened, Troy would win the war) Laocoon, a Trojan priest, warned his people, “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” He was killed by a sea serpent and everyone took it as a sign to keep the horse. They took it in. Armed men came out at night and sacked the city from within.
Menelaus and Helen Return to Sparta and live out their days as a happily married couple
Agamemnon Wife Clytemnestra had an affair with Aegisthus, and when Agamemnon returned, they murdered him Orestes (Agamemnon and Clytemnestra’s son) rescued from a similar fate and brought up elsewhere He returned to avenge his father’s death, and, with the help of his sister Elektra, killed his mom and her lover