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The Achaeans entered the city using the Trojan Horse and slew the slumbering population. Priam and his surviving sons and grandsons were killed. Antenor, who had earlier offered hospitality to the Achaean embassy that asked the return of Helen of Troy and had advocated so [1] was spared, along with his family by Menelaus and Odysseus.
Antenor, husband of Theano and an Elder of Troy. [1] Antenor, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Zacynthus along with other 43 wooers. [2] He, with the other suitors, was killed by Odysseus with the aid of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus. [3]
His wife Creusa is killed during the sack of the city. Aeneas also carries the Lares and Penates of Troy, which the historical Romans claimed to preserve as guarantees of Rome's own security. Aeneas Flees Burning Troy (1598) by Federico Barocci. The Trojan survivors escape with a number of ships, seeking to establish a new homeland elsewhere.
During the siege of Troy, he was killed by Odysseus using his sword along with Aenus, another Ceteian. [6] (Ceteius is called a stream in Asia Minor). Polydorus (son of Astyanax) [7] Polydorus, one of the suitors of Penelope who came from Zacynthus along with other 43 wooers. [8]
But in the Aeneid by Virgil, after a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greeks constructed a huge wooden horse at the behest of Odysseus, and hid a select force of men inside, including Odysseus himself. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy.
Later that night, Odysseus and Diomedes venture out to the Trojan lines, kill the Trojan Dolon, and wreak havoc in the camps of some Thracian allies of Troy. In the morning, the fighting is fierce, and Agamemnon, Diomedes, and Odysseus are all wounded.
When Achilles dies, killed by Paris (with help from Apollo), Ajax and Odysseus are the heroes who fight against the Trojans to get the body and bury it with his companion, Patroclus. [11] Ajax, with his great shield and spear, manages to recover the body and carry it to the ships, while Odysseus fights off the Trojans. [12]
According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, Odysseus and Diomedes came to Scyros to bring him to the war at Troy. According to the Epic Cycle , Odysseus and Phoenix did this. The Achaean seer Calchas prophesied that Philoctetes (whom the Achaeans had abandoned on the island of Lemnos due to the vile odour from snakebite) and the bow of Heracles are needed ...