1. AFTER THE ILIAD

2. 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

3. 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.

4. Menelaus and Helen  Return to Sparta and live out their days as a happily married couple

5. 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