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* RapePillageAndBurn: Once Troy is breached and its defenders overpowered, the Achaean army rampages through the city, slaughtering its people, stealing everything of worth, seizing its women as slaves, and setting fire to everything that can burn. The only thing that they show any hesitancy towards harming are the temples of the gods, as they gives serious thought to stoning Ajax the Lesser to death when he damages Athena's alter while wrestling Cassandra away from it. The Achaeans' conduct during the sack is so debauched and feckless of the gods, only two kings' troops got to sail home unimpeded -- the rest all managed to severely offend some god or another, who promptly makes their return treacherous.
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* RapePillageAndBurn: Once Troy is breached and its defenders overpowered, the Achaean army rampages through the city, slaughtering its people, stealing everything of worth, seizing its women as slaves, and setting fire to everything that can burn. The only thing that they show any hesitancy towards harming are the temples of the gods, as they gives serious thought to stoning Ajax the Lesser to death when he damages Athena's alter altar while wrestling Cassandra away from it. The Achaeans' conduct during the sack is so debauched and feckless in the eyes of the gods, gods that only two kings' troops got to sail home unimpeded -- the rest all managed to severely offend some god or another, who promptly makes their return treacherous.treacherous in punishment.
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The arrival of Penthesileia and the Amazons and of Memnon and the Aethiopians to support Troy, their deaths in battle against Achilles, and Achilles' own death.
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* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: Achilles takes out both Penthesilea and Memnon, only to meet his death by Apollo shortly afterwards.
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* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: Achilles takes out both Penthesilea and Memnon, only to meet his death by Apollo Paris, with the divine help of Apollo, shortly afterwards.
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* CurbStompBattle: Carefully averted with the introduction of new Trojan allies such as Penthesilea and Memnon. Otherwise, considering the Trojans lost thier greatest defender in the ''Iliad'', the remainder of the war would have been this.
* DeathIsDramatic: Chasing the ''entire Trojan army'' into the city, taken down by Paris only with the help of Apollo? Achilles is just that badass.
* DeathIsDramatic: Chasing the ''entire Trojan army'' into the city, taken down by Paris only with the help of Apollo? Achilles is just that badass.
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* CurbStompBattle: Carefully averted with the introduction of new Trojan allies such as Penthesilea and Memnon. Otherwise, considering the Trojans lost thier their greatest defender in the ''Iliad'', the remainder of the war would have been this.
* DeathIsDramatic: Chasing the ''entire Trojan army'' into the city, taken down by Paris only with the divine help of Apollo? Achilles is just that badass.
* DeathIsDramatic: Chasing the ''entire Trojan army'' into the city, taken down by Paris only with the divine help of Apollo? Achilles is just that badass.
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* InvincibleHero: Up until this point, Achilles was this. It takes Apollo to help bring him down.
* MarkedToDie: It's mentioned twice in the ''Iliad'' that Achilles would be killed by Apollo, and the summary of the ''Aethiopis'' mentions that Thetis prophesied something regarding his battle with Memnon to her son.
* MarkedToDie: It's mentioned twice in the ''Iliad'' that Achilles would be killed by Apollo, and the summary of the ''Aethiopis'' mentions that Thetis prophesied something regarding his battle with Memnon to her son.
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* InvincibleHero: Up until this point, Achilles was this. It takes Paris shooting him with the divine help of Apollo to help bring him down.
* MarkedToDie: It's mentioned twice in the ''Iliad'' that Achilles would be killed byApollo, Apollo and the summary of the ''Aethiopis'' mentions that Thetis prophesied something regarding his battle with Memnon to her son.
* MarkedToDie: It's mentioned twice in the ''Iliad'' that Achilles would be killed by
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* OneManArmy: Achilles. Penthesilea and Memnon also fit until they're killed.
* StormingTheCastle: After killing Memnon, Achilles puts the entire Trojan army to flight, and pursues them into the city.
* StormingTheCastle: After killing Memnon, Achilles puts the entire Trojan army to flight, and pursues them into the city.
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* OneManArmy: Achilles. Penthesilea and Memnon also fit this trope until they're they are killed.
* StormingTheCastle: After killing Memnon, Achilles puts the entire Trojan army toflight, flight and pursues them into the city.
* StormingTheCastle: After killing Memnon, Achilles puts the entire Trojan army to
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* {{Patricide}}: Telegonus ''does'' end up killing his father, after all.
* {{Plunder}}: What Telegonus is up to when he's not actively looking for his father. This doesn't end well.
* {{Plunder}}: What Telegonus is up to when he's not actively looking for his father. This doesn't end well.
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* {{Patricide}}: While this is a result of neither recognizing the other until it's too late, Telegonus ''does'' end ends up killing his father, after all.
father.
* {{Plunder}}:What As is the way of most Homeric heroes, Telegonus is up to happily engages in piracy and raiding when he's not actively looking for pursuing his father. main quest. This doesn't end well.well -- after being stranded on what later turns out to be Ithaca, he starts stealing the local cattle and ends up in a battle to the death with his own father as a result.
* {{Plunder}}:
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The sack and destruction of Troy by the victorious Achaeans.
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Note that there are additional stories that cover events connected to or following from the Cycle's, such as ''Theatre/TheOresteia'', which follows the events of the ''Returns'', and ''Literature/TheAeneid'', which follows the surviving Trojans' escape. However, because they were written a long time after the original set and within different periods of ancient literature, they are not considered part of the Trojan Cycle proper.
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* DivineParentage: A lot of the characters.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: A lot.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: A lot.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: The Trojans are defending themselves...and by doing so, are defending a wife-stealing [[SacredHospitality hospitality-abusing]] jackass. The Achaeans are honorbound by oath and Zeus (hospitality was one of his domains) to get said wife back, no matter how silly any of them might think all of them dying to get a single woman back is (WorldsMostBeautifulWoman she may be).
* HeroAntagonist: Hector, Penthesilea, Memnon... many Trojan heroes and allies, really.
* HeroicLineage: Naturally.
* HeroAntagonist: Hector, Penthesilea, Memnon... many Trojan heroes and allies, really.
* HeroicLineage: Naturally.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: The Trojans are defending themselves... and by doing so, are defending a wife-stealing [[SacredHospitality hospitality-abusing]] jackass. The Achaeans are honorbound by oath and Zeus (hospitality was one of his domains) to get said wife back, no matter how silly any of them might think all of them dying to get a single woman back is (WorldsMostBeautifulWoman she may be).
* %%* HeroAntagonist: Hector, Penthesilea, Memnon... many Trojan heroes and allies, really.
* %%* HeroicLineage: Naturally.
The events that led to the War itself, chiefly Paris' judgement of the beauty of the goddesses and his taking of Helen.
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* LivingMacGuffin: Helen.
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* LoveGoddess: Aphrodite.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Helen and Paris.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Helen and Paris.
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* RedShirt: Protesilaus, the first to die at Troy.
* RevengeSVP: Eris doesn't take not being invited to the wedding well.
* RevengeSVP: Eris doesn't take not being invited to the wedding well.
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* TheCavalry: The new Trojan allies.
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* EitherOrProphecy: Achilles's is fulfilled here. He's DoomedByCanon.
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* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: Achilles.
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* TooPowerfulToLive: Achilles again, a non-antagonist example.
* WorthyOpponent: Memnon to Achilles.
* WorthyOpponent: Memnon to Achilles.
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: And Achilles knew it.
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The war after Achilles' death, terminating in the creation of Odysseus' horse. The ''Little Iliad'' cuts off just before the sack of the city itself.
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* BolivianArmyCliffhanger: According to Proclus's summary, the epic ends with the Trojan guard down and the Achaeans poised to ravage the city.
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* BolivianArmyCliffhanger: According to Proclus's Proclus' summary, the epic ends with the Trojan guard down and the Achaeans poised to ravage the city.
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* DarkestHour: The people of Troy have entered theirs.
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* DramaticIrony: Oh so much.
* DrivenToSuicide: Ajax.
* GuileHero: Odysseus.
* DrivenToSuicide: Ajax.
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* InsaneEqualsViolent: Ajax, who briefly goes mad and attacks the Achaeans' plundered flock.
* TheInfiltration: Odysseus's recon of Troy.
* ISurrenderSuckers: The Achaeans' feigned retreat.
* MadeASlave: Many after the sack, such as Hecuba and Andromache.
* TheInfiltration: Odysseus's recon of Troy.
* ISurrenderSuckers: The Achaeans' feigned retreat.
* MadeASlave: Many after the sack, such as Hecuba and Andromache.
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* InsaneEqualsViolent: Ajax, who Ajax briefly goes mad and attacks the Achaeans' plundered flock.
* %%* TheInfiltration: Odysseus's Odysseus' recon of Troy.
* %%* ISurrenderSuckers: The Achaeans' feigned retreat.
* MadeASlave: Many after the sack, such as Hecuba and Andromache.retreat.
* MadeASlave: Many after the sack, such as Hecuba and Andromache.
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* OneSidedBattle: Probably the case when the Achaeans emerge from the TrojanHorse.
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* RightUnderTheirNoses: When Odysseus sneaks into Troy.
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* TrojanHorse
* TurnCoat: It seems Helen couldn't care less about Troy after Paris is killed.
* TurnCoat: It seems Helen couldn't care less about Troy after Paris is killed.
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* TurnCoat: It seems that Helen couldn't care less about Troy after Paris is killed.
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* DarkestHour: This is Troy's.
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* LastStand
* LibationForTheDead
* MadeASlave: Numerous Trojan women, Hecuba and Andromache in particular.
* LibationForTheDead
* MadeASlave: Numerous Trojan women, Hecuba and Andromache in particular.
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* MadeASlave:
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* RapePillageAndBurn: The Achaeans' conduct during the sack is so debauched and feckless of the gods, only two kings' troops got to sail home unimpeded - the rest all managed to severely offend some god who promptly makes their return treacherous.
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* RapePillageAndBurn: Once Troy is breached and its defenders overpowered, the Achaean army rampages through the city, slaughtering its people, stealing everything of worth, seizing its women as slaves, and setting fire to everything that can burn. The only thing that they show any hesitancy towards harming are the temples of the gods, as they gives serious thought to stoning Ajax the Lesser to death when he damages Athena's alter while wrestling Cassandra away from it. The Achaeans' conduct during the sack is so debauched and feckless of the gods, only two kings' troops got to sail home unimpeded - -- the rest all managed to severely offend some god or another, who promptly makes their return treacherous.
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* {{Seers}}: Cassandra, of the CassandraTruth.
* StormingTheCastle: And the Achaeans finally penetrate inside the city.
* StormingTheCastle: And the Achaeans finally penetrate inside the city.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Odysseus, who kills Astyanax.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: Agamemnon's. Aegisthus is his ''cousin''.
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* HomeSweetHome: At least some of them reach it.
* TheHomewardJourney: Naturally.
* TheHomewardJourney: Naturally.
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The final story in the cycle and one most distantly removed from Troy itself. The ''Telegony'' follows Telegonus, Circe and Odysseus' son, who was born after his father left Aeaea, as he sets out to find his father. It goes less than ideally.
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* DivineParentage: Telegonus, the son of Circe.
* DoubleStandard
* HeroicBastard: The epic is named for Telegonus, after all.
* {{Immortality}}: Telemachus and Penelope recieve it.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Telegonus's weapon is a sting ray barb, not just a blade.
* IWillWaitForYou: We can only assume this is what Penelope did as Odysseus disappeared for however many years ''again''.
* DoubleStandard
* HeroicBastard: The epic is named for Telegonus, after all.
* {{Immortality}}: Telemachus and Penelope recieve it.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Telegonus's weapon is a sting ray barb, not just a blade.
* IWillWaitForYou: We can only assume this is what Penelope did as Odysseus disappeared for however many years ''again''.
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* DivineParentage: Telegonus, the son of Circe.
Circe, is half minor deity on his mother's side.
*DoubleStandard
*DoubleInLawMarriage: At the end, Telegonus then returns to Aeaea with his father's body, as well as his half-brother Telemachus and Odysseus' wife Penelope. Both of whom are made immortal by Circe, and Telegonus marries Penelope while Circe marries Telemachus.
%%* HeroicBastard: The epic is named for Telegonus, after all.
* {{Immortality}}: Telemachus and Peneloperecieve it.
are made immortal by Circe at the end.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Telegonus's weapon is asting ray stingray barb, not just a blade.
* %%* IWillWaitForYou: We can only assume this is what Penelope did as Odysseus disappeared for however many years ''again''.%%Assume or know?
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%%* HeroicBastard: The epic is named for Telegonus, after all.
* {{Immortality}}: Telemachus and Penelope
* ImprovisedWeapon: Telegonus's weapon is a
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* SelfMadeOrphan: Accidentally.
* TangledFamilyTree: By the end of the epic, Telegonus and Telemachus are both each other's stepfathers and stepsons...
** And Circe and Penelope are both each other's mothers-in-law, daughters-in-law, stepmothers and stepdaughters.
* TellMeAboutMyFather: What sets Telegonus off in search of Odysseus in the first place.
* YouCantFightFate:
** Odysseus was fated to die a mild death from the sea... Telegonus sails in and kills him with a sting ray spear. [[FridgeLogic It's not exactly mild, though]]...
** The prophecy in question could just as easily be translated as ''away'' from the sea. It also says he will die at an old age, surrounded by a prosperous people, which can't really be said about dying from a stingray spear on the beach. This, along with all the other contradictory details, has led quite a few scholars (both ancient and modern) to see the Telegony as a case of AdaptationDecay.
* TangledFamilyTree: By the end of the epic, Telegonus and Telemachus are both each other's stepfathers and stepsons...
** And Circe and Penelope are both each other's mothers-in-law, daughters-in-law, stepmothers and stepdaughters.
* TellMeAboutMyFather: What sets Telegonus off in search of Odysseus in the first place.
* YouCantFightFate:
** Odysseus was fated to die a mild death from the sea... Telegonus sails in and kills him with a sting ray spear. [[FridgeLogic It's not exactly mild, though]]...
** The prophecy in question could just as easily be translated as ''away'' from the sea. It also says he will die at an old age, surrounded by a prosperous people, which can't really be said about dying from a stingray spear on the beach. This, along with all the other contradictory details, has led quite a few scholars (both ancient and modern) to see the Telegony as a case of AdaptationDecay.
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* SelfMadeOrphan: Accidentally.
Accidentally. Neither Telegonus nor Odysseus has ever laid eyes on the other, Odysseus doesn't know that he has a second son, and Telegonus winds up on Ithaca when his ship is wrecked on its shores and is not initially aware of where he is. As a result, their initial encounter quickly becomes a battle, and they only realize who the other is when Odysseus is dying on the ground.
* TangledFamilyTree: By the end of the epic, Telegonus and Telemachus are both each other's stepfathers andstepsons...
** Andstepsons, while Circe and Penelope are both each other's mothers-in-law, daughters-in-law, stepmothers and stepdaughters.
* TellMeAboutMyFather:What sets Telegonus sets off in search of Odysseus in the first place.
only after his mother discloses his identity to him, which happens when he's already an adult.
*YouCantFightFate:
**YouCantFightFate: Odysseus was fated to die a mild death from the sea...sea. Telegonus sails in and kills him with a sting ray spear. [[FridgeLogic It's not exactly mild, though]]...
**though]]. The prophecy in question could just as easily be translated as ''away'' from the sea. It also says he will die at an old age, surrounded by a prosperous people, which can't really be said about dying from a stingray spear on the beach. This, along with all the other contradictory details, has led quite a few scholars (both ancient and modern) to see the Telegony as a case of AdaptationDecay.
* TangledFamilyTree: By the end of the epic, Telegonus and Telemachus are both each other's stepfathers and
** And
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* ''Returns''[[note]](Also known as the ''Nostoi'' or the ''Nosti'')[[/note]]
* ''Little Iliad''
* ''Sack of Ilion''[[note]](Also known as the ''Sack of Troy'', the ''Iliupersis'', or the ''Iliou persis'')[[/note]]
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''The Aethiopis''
*''Little ''The Little Iliad''
*''Sack ''The Sack of Ilion''[[note]](Also known as the ''Sack of Troy'', the ''Iliupersis'', or the ''Iliou persis'')[[/note]]
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* BladeOnAStick: Telegonus's weapon... except it's a sting ray barb, not just a blade.
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* ContinuitySnarl: Here Aeneas flees Troy after the ominous death of Laocoon, compared to his capture in the ''Little Iliad''. Astyanax is also killed by Odysseus rather than Neoptolemus.
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* ContinuitySnarl: Here Aeneas flees Troy after the [[Art/LaocoonAndHisSons ominous death of Laocoon, Laocoön]], compared to his capture in the ''Little Iliad''. Astyanax is also killed by Odysseus rather than Neoptolemus.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Aeneas doesn't stay long after the death of Laocoon, and flees the city.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Aeneas doesn't stay long after the death of Laocoon, Laocoön, and flees the city.
