| Name
of Work & Author
| Parts
of the story it tells
|
|
Kypria
by Stasinos of Cyprus (or Hegesias or Homor), date unknown
11
Books
|
- Peleus wrestles
Thetis and weds her
- Judgement of
Paris
- Achilles trained
by the centaur Chiron
- Greeks wrongly
attack Telephos
- Gathering at
Aulis & sacrifice of Iphigenia
- Troilos & Polyxena
surprised by Achilles who drags the boy from his horse and kills him
beside Apollo's altar
|
|
The
Iliad by Homer, date in question, ca. 850 BCE
24
Books
|
The
dragging of Hector with Troy and Andromache looking on at left while
the Achaeans are at right.
Done by David Claudon in a narrative style from c. 730 BCE.
- The
anger of Achilles
- The
death of Hector
|
|
Aithiopis
by Arktinos of Miletos, 776-744 BCE
5
Books
|
- Achilles fights
and kills Penthesila, the Amazon daughter of Ares
- Achilles fights
and kills Memnon, Ethiopian son of Eos (Dawn) and Tithonos (brother
of Priam who had been kidnapped by Eos and taken to Ethiopia)
- Achilles is killed
by Paris' arrow to his heel
- Aias quarrels
with Odysseus over Achilles' armor. When the Acheans give it to Odysseus,
Aias goes mad and kills a flock of sheep. Then he throws himself on
his own sword.
|
|
Little
Iliad by Leches of Lesbos (or Thestorides or Kinaithon or Diodoros
or Homer), date evidence conflicting
4
Books
|
- The quarrel of
Aias and Odysseus
- When Odysseus
captures the Trojan prophet Hellenus, he reveals that Troy will fall
if they have the bones of Pelops, if Neoptolemos (Achilles' son) fights
with them, and if they steal the Palladion, an image of Pallas Athena
that had fallen to Troy from the heavens.
- Neoptolemos receives
his father's armor from Odysseus. Diomedes and Odysseus are most often
represented as stealing the Palladion
- Troy falls when
a giant wooden horse is constructed and left in front of the city.
|
|
Ilioupersis
or
The Sack of Ilion by Arktinos of Miletos, 776-774 BCE
2
Books
|
|
The
Trojan Horse painted by David Claudon, based
on a pot from about 50 years after the death of Homer. (from Peter
Levi's Atlas of the Greek World, 57)
|
-
The
fall of Troy and the wooden horse
-
Aeneas
escapes carrying his father Anchises on his back, along with
his young son Askanios
-
The
Lesser Ajax rapes Cassandra who had taken refuge in the Sanctuary
of Athena which outrages the rest of the Achaeans.
-
Priam
and Hector's son Astyanax are killed by Neoptolemos.
-
Helen
is recovered by Menelaus and led to the ships.
-
Polyxena
is sacrificed on Achilles' tomb.
|
|
|
The
Returns by Agias of Troizen (or an unnamed Kolophonian or Homer),
date unknown
5
Books
|
- Deals with the
returns of various heroes
|
|
24
Books
|
- The journey of
Telemachos
- The return of
Odysseus
- The slaughter
of the suitors
|
|
Telegony
by Eugammon of Kyrene (or Kinaithos of Lacedaimon), 568 BCE
2
Books
|
- From the return
of Odysseus to his death
|
