What is the timeline of the Trojan War?

Answer 1

1200 BC - 332 BC IRON AGE : Start of the Trojan War

1200 BC Start of the Trojan War. Time of the Judges: Israel is a twelve-tribe confederation. 1175 BC The 'Sea Peoples' were moving out of the Aegean and Anatolian regions as a result of years of drought and poor harvests.

1200 BC The Mask of Agamemnon, Schliemann 1880

When Schliemann, excavated a Mycenaean grave shaft, he discovered this mask and thought he had "gazed upon the face of Agamemnon," the great king from The Iliad.

1200 BC Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy, was daughter of Zeus and Leda, wife of king Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. Helen was described as having "the face that launched a thousand ships"

800 BC Homer, Greek Poet

No one is exactly sure who Homer was. Theories abound, and some even think he never existed. Regardless, he is traditionally recognized as the original creator of two epic poems, the Iliad and The Odyssey.

800 BC The Iliad, Homer

The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action.

530 BC - 480 BC Leonidas, King of Sparta

Leonidas was a king of Sparta, the 17th of the Agiad line. He was one of the sons of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta, descendant of Heracles. He succeeded his half-brother Cleomenes I, probably in 489 or 488 BC....

500 BC - 449 BC The Persian Wars

Series of conflicts fought between Greek states and the Persian Empire. The writings of Herodotus, who was born c.484 B.C., are the great source of knowledge of the history of the wars.

495 BC - 429 BC Pericles, Leader of Athens

Pericles was an influential and important leader of Athens during the Athenian Golden Age (specifically, between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars). The period from 461 BC to 379 BC is sometimes known as "The Age of Pericles".

490 BC Battle of Marathon

In 490 B.C., 25,000 Persians under Darius landed on the Plain of Marathon. The Spartans were unwilling to provide help for the Athenians in time, so with the help of 1,000 Plataeans, and led by Callimachus and Miltiades.

484 BC - 425 BC Herodotus, Father of History

Herodotus of Halicarnassus was a Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BC in Halicarnassus, Caria; Bodrum in modern Turkey. He is regarded as the "Father of History" in Western culture.

431 BC - 404 BC Peloponnesian War

The war between Athens and the Athenian empire versus Sparta, Thebes, Corinth, and other members of the Peloponnesian Confederacy. Large scale campaigns and heavy fighting took place from Sicily to the coast of Asia Minor.

70 BC - 1 BC Virgil, Roman Poet

Virgil's most famous and significant contribution to the classical canon is undoubtedly his Aeneid. Indeed, this is the work of Virgil's most influential to the Divine Comedy, as well.

43 BC - 17 Ovidius, Roman Poet

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso). Roman poet, noted especially for his ARS AMATORIA and METAMORPHOSES. Ovid was the first major writer to grow up under the empire. He died far from home, in a desolate town by the Black Sea.

29 BC The Aeneid, Virgil

Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. The Aeneid describes the adventures of Aeneas, the legendary Trojan hero who survived the fall of troy.