TrojanWar—Fall of Troy.
    After using the wooden horse to enter Troy, the Greeks destroyed the Trojans and burned their city to the ground. Of the Trojan heroes, only Antenor and Aeneas, who escaped with his son Ascanius and his father Anchises, survived. The rest, including King Priam, were killed. The Trojan women were taken as slaves and concubines by the Greek leaders. Hecuba, Priam's wife, was given to Odysseus. Her daughter Cassandra was raped in Athena's temple by Ajax the Less, then given to Agamemnon as a concubine. In one version of the story, Hecuba's daughter Polyxena was sacrificed to satisfy the ghost of Achilles. Hector's widow Andromache was handed over to Achilles' son, Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus), after her own son Astyanax was torn from her arms and thrown from the city walls. (According to medieval tradition, Astyanax lived and grew to manhood.) Helen, whose abduction had started the war, was reconciled with her husband, Menelaus, and returned to Sparta.



Listings are also arranged under the following headings:
Trojan War — General List (TrojanWar)
Trojan War — Wooden Horse (TrojanWarHorse)
Trojan War — Fall of Troy (TrojanWarFall)

See also — AENEAS, Flight from Troy; ANDROMACHE; CASSANDRA; HELEN; POLYDORUS; POLYXENA