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Jan 1, 1000
Wedding of King Pelius and Thetis
The goddess of discord, Eris, wasn't invited to the wedding. So she arrived with an apple with the words written "for the fairest". Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite started fighting over the apple. -
Jan 2, 1000
Judgement of Paris
Zeus told Hermes to lead Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite to a man named Paris. Paris was actually the Prince of Troy, but he was unware of this as he was raised as a shepherd. The goddesses each announced their bribes to him and had him choose which one was best suited for the apple. Paris had picked Aphrodite, which in turn had the most beautiful woman to fall in love with him. She was called Helen, Queen of Sparta. -
Jan 3, 1000
Elopement of Paris and Helen
Paris went to Sparta, pretending to be under a diplomatic mission to get Helen and bring her to Troy. Helen was shot with a Cupid arrow while Menelaus was away and fell in love with Paris. Hera, who was still jealous that she wasn't chosen for the apple, sent a storm that put Helen and Paris in Egypt. -
Jan 4, 1000
Odysseus and Achilles
Odysseus married Penelope and had a son named Telemachus. To avoid the war, he pretended to go mad and sowed his fields with salt. Palamedes put his son in front of the plough's path to see whether or not Odysseus was actually mad. Odysseus turned the plough to avoid killing his son which proved that he wasn't insane, so he had to go to war. -
Jan 4, 1000
Odysseus and Achilles (part 2)
Odysseus, Telamonian Ajax, and Phoenix, Achilles' tutor, went to get Achilles so that he can go to war. His mother disguised him as a woman so he wouldn't have to go to war, but he exposed himself when he grabbed a spear to fight intruders instead of fleeing. -
Jan 5, 1000
First Gathering at Aulis
Achaean forces arranged their first meeting in Aulis. All of Helen's suitors sent their forces except for the king of Cyprus, King Cinyras. Although, he gave breastplates to Agamemnon and had promised to also send 50 ships. He had only sent one real ship while the rest were clay. The ship was led by the son of Mygdalion. Idomeneus wanted to lead the Cretan contingent in Mycenae's war against Troy, but only as a co-commander, which he was given. Achilles was the last commander to arrive. -
Jan 5, 1000
The Snake
Calchas gave a sacrifice to Apollo, and then saw a snake slither from the altar to a nearby tree. The snake ate the mother and her nine chicks, then turned to stone. Calchas took this as a sign that Troy would fall in the tenth year of the war. -
Jan 6, 1000
Telephus
When the Achaeans left for the war, they didn't know the way and had landed in Mysia, which was ruled by King Telephus, son of Heracles. He had led a group of Arcadians to settle there. Achilles wounded Telephus in battle, while Telephus had killed Thersander. His wound wouldn't heal, so he had asked an oracle for answers. The oracle told him that whoever gave him the wound can heal it. A new gathering had been set again in Aulis. -
Jan 6, 1000
Telephus in Aulis
Telephus went to Aulis to get his wound healed. He had pretended to be a beggar and asked Agamemnon to help heal his wound or took Orestes and held him for ransom to get his wound healed. Achilles had refused, saying he didn't have any medical knowledge. Odysseus said that the spear that inflicted it must be able to heal it. They scraped pieces of the spear into Telephus' wound and it healed. He then showed them the route to Troy. -
Jan 7, 1008
The Second Gathering
The fleet had gathered again, with more than a thousand ships. But as they reached Aulis, the winds ceased. A prophet named Calchas said that Artemis was punishing Agamemnon for killing a sacred deer, or a deer in a sacred grove, then boasting that he was a better hunter than she. The only way to satisfy Artemis was to sacrifice Iphigenia, who was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra or of Helen and Theseus, entrusted to Clyemnestra when Helen married Menelaus.