Aulis
Events
- Hercules kills Syleus and Xenodice
- After a serpent eats nine birds and turns to stone, Calchas proclaims that Troy will be taken in ten years
- The Greek expedition for Troy musters at Aulis
- The Greek army musters at Aulis a second time
- Calchas says that the Greek army cannot sail until Iphigenia is sacrificed to Artemis
- Agamemnon sends Odysseus and Talthybius to get Iphigenia
- Agammenon prepares to sacrifice Iphigenia
- Artemis substitutes a deer as sacrificial victim in Iphigenia’s place
- The Achaeans see a snake eat nine sparrows then turn into stone
- Kalkhas declares that the stone snake is a sign from Zeus that the Achaeans will take Troy in ten years
- The Greek expedition against Troy musters at Aulis
- The Boeotians send ships to Troy
- Nireus and the Symaeans send ships to Troy
- The Orchomenians send ships and troops to the expedition against Troy
Citations
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 6.3
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 3.11
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 3.15
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 3.18
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 3.19
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 3.21
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 3.23
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 2, Section 300
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 2, Section 495
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 35.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 9.3
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 9.10
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 28.4
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 28.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 19.6
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 19.7
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 19.8
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 26.3
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