Events mentioned in: Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 21, Routing of the Trojans
- Achilles captures Lycaon
- Achilles divides the Trojan forces at the bank of the river Xanthos
- Achilles enters the river and massacres the Trojans
- Achilles spares twelve Trojans to sacrifice
- Achilles sends Lycaon to Lemnos
- Lycaon is bought by Euneus
- Eetion frees Lycaon
- Eetion sends Lycaon to Arisbe
- Lycaon escapes from Arisbe
- Lycaon returns home to Troy
- Achilles sees Lycaon in the river and thinks he has returned from the dead
- Lycaon prostrates himself before Achilles and begs for his life
- Achilles rebukes and kills Lycaon
- Xanthus empowers Asteropaeus to fight Achilles
- Achilles kills Asteropaeus
- Achilles strips Asteropaeus of his armour
- Achilles pursues the Paeonians
- Achilles kills Thersilokhos, Mydon, Astypylos, Mnesos, Thrasios, Oeneus, and Ophelestes
- The river Xanthus takes human form
- Xanthus warns Achilles to stop polluting his waters with corpses
- Apollo continues his onslaught against the Trojans
- Xanthus tells Apollo that he is not following Zeus’ order to defend the Trojans
- Achilles enters the river Xanthus a second time
- Xanthus attacks Achilles with great waves
- Achilles asks the gods to save him from Xanthus
- Poseidon and Athena appear to Achilles and reassure him he will not die in the river
- Achilles attempts to overcome Xanthus’ assault
- Xanthus invokes the aid of Simoeis against Achilles
- Hera orders Hephaestus to distract Xanthus from his attack on Achilles
- Hephaestus starts fires on Xanthus’s banks
- Xanthus, scalded by Hephaestus, relents in his attack on Achilles
- Xanthus swears not to defend the Trojans again
- Hera calls off Hephaestus’s attack on Xanthus
- The gods begin to quarrel with one another
- Ares attacks Athena
- Athena strikes Ares down and mocks him
- Hera sees Aphrodite leading Ares from the fray and tells Athena to go after her
- Athena attacks Aphrodite
- Poseidon urges Apollo to fight him
- Artemis criticizes Apollo for refusing to fight Poseidon
- Hera beats Artemis until she runs away weeping
- Hermes refuses to fight Leto
- Artemis cries to Zeus that Hera beat her
- Priam orders that the gates of Troy be left open for the Trojans fleeing from Achilles
- Apollo protects the Trojans outside Troy
- Apollo inspires Agenor to stay behind and wait for Achilles
- Agenor and Achilles fight
- Apollo spirits Agenor away to safety
- Apollo disguises himself as Agenor and leads Achilles away from the Trojan host
- The Trojan host returns to the safety of the city walls
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