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Agamemnon
was the overlord of the coalition against
Troy. He returned home to
Mycenae, but was
murdered by his wife
Clytaemnestra and
her lover Aegisthus,
who then seized the kingdom.
Agapenor from
Arcadia settled in
Cyprus.
Ajax 2 was the
Leader of the Locrians against
Troy. During the sack of
the city, he raped
Cassandra who was
clinging to the wooden image of
Athena. So during his
return Athena threw a
thunderbolt against his ship; and when the ship
went to pieces he made his way safe to a rock, and
declared that he was saved in spite of the
intention of Athena. But
Poseidon smote the rock
with his trident and split it, and
Ajax 2 fell into the sea
and perished. His body, being washed up, was buried
by Thetis in Myconos. But Leonymus affirms that he
saw the soul of Ajax 2 in
the White Isle.
Antiphus 5, from Cos (one of the Sporades
islands, now Dodecanese, off the southwestern coast
of Asia Minor), settled in Thessaly.
Amphilochus 2 (son of Alcmaeon 1), said
to have arrived late to the
Trojan War, was killed
in single combat by Mopsus 2 (son of Manto 1,
daughter of Tiresias)
in Caria.
Calchas died
during his wanderings in Asia Minor when he was
defeated by Mopsus 2 in the art of divination.
Diomedes 2
was Leader of the Argives
against Troy. When after
the war Diomedes 2
went back to Argos,
Aegialia (his wife) plotted against him. So he took
sanctuary at the altar of Hera, and fleeing with
his companions by night he passed into Italy and
went to the court of King Daunus. Some say he died
of old age. Others that he was caused to disappear
while his companions were changed into birds. Still
others say that King Daunus killed him by a trick.
Guneus 2, a Thessalian, went to Libya and
settled near the Cinyps river.
Idomeneus 1, Leader of the Cretans
against Troy. Previously,
one of the SUITORS OF
HELEN, and one of the heroes inside the
WOODEN HORSE. He was
never able to come back home. During his absence he
was deposed by an usurper and emigrated to Italy.
His wife married the usurper, and was later
murdered by him.
Menelaus,
king of Sparta, whose
wife Helen had been the
cause of the war, is found some years later living
a pleasant life together with
Helen in
Sparta. But before that,
he had wandered for seven years in the
Mediterranean coasts visiting or pillaging Egypt,
Libya, Cyprus and Phoenicia.
Menestheus 1 had been given the
sovereignty of Athens by
the DIOSCURI and when
the war against Troy
started he became leader of the Athenians. But he
did not return to Athens:
after the sack of Troy,
Menestheus 1 went to Melos and reigned as king,
because the king there, Polyanax, had died.
Neoptolemus
and Phoenix 2 wandered through northern
Greece together with the Trojan prisoners
Helenus 1 and
Andromache, whom
Neoptolemus married.
Neoptolemus set out
for the country of the Molossians by land, burying
Phoenix 2, who died on the way. Having vanquished
the Molossians he reigned over them. He became king
of the islands off Epirus and gave his own mother
to Helenus 1 as wife.
Odysseus
went, after the sack of
Troy, through 10 years of
involuntary adventures in the Mediterranean
(Odysseus had attempted
to stay at home during the war).
Calypso 3 offered him
immortality, but he refused to trade returning home
for immortality. However, at home there was
sedition, and he felt compelled to take back his
rights through a massacre. For having killed the
SUITORS OF
PENELOPE,
Neoptolemus (who had
been appointed judge in this matter) condemned him
to exile. So they tell; but it is also said that
Odysseus died of
Old Age in Ithaca.
Phidippus, who had led an army from Cos,
settled in Andros (the most northerly of the
Cyclades Islands).
Philoctetes
was from Meliboea. He became Leader of the
Olizonians against Troy. He
was bitten by a water-snake (Serpent 12) in
Tenedos, and as the wound did not heal the army put
him ashore on the island of
Lemnos with the bow of
Heracles 1 which he
had in his possession. There he subsisted in the
wilderness by shooting birds.
Calchas prophesied to
the Achaeans that Troy
could not be taken unless they had the bow and
arrows of Heracles 1
fighting on their side. So
Odysseus and
Diomedes 2 (or as some
say Odysseus and
Neoptolemus) sailed
to Lemnos, and by craft
got possession of the bow of
Philoctetes. They
then persuaded him to sail to
Troy, where, having being
cured by Podalirius, he shot
Paris. After the war, he
returned to Meliboea. But as sedition threatened
the city, he settled in Campanian in Italy where he
made war on the Lucanians. Later he settled in
Crimissa where he founded a sanctuary of
Apollo to whom he
dedicated his bow.
Phrontis 3 (son of Onetor 2) was the
steerman in Menelaus'
ship. He was killed by
Apollo in cape Sunium.
Podalirius,
Asclepius' son,
following the instructions of the oracle at
Delphi, settled in Caria
(southwestern Asia Minor).
Prothous 4 from Magnesia in eastern
Thessaly, settled in
Crete.
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