1. Book XV
Zeus awakens to find
that the Trojans have
been pushed back
across the ditch.
Angry, Zeus scolds
Hera and Poseidon.

2. Zeus sends Apollo to support the Trojans,
who make it to the ships

3. Patroclus runs to report the news to
Achilles
Hector vows
to burn the
ships.

5. Book XVI
Patroclus begs Achilles to allow him to put on
Achilles’ armor and fight.
Achilles agrees, but only if Patroclus stays far
away from the walls of Troy.

6. Patroclos bids Achilles farewell

7. The ships begin to burn

9. While Patroclos puts on Achilles’ armor,
Achilles musters the Myrmidons

10. Achilles offers a libation to Zeus, praying
for the success and safety of Patroclus

11. Led by Patroclus, the Myrmidons push the
Trojans back

12. Patroclos and Sarpedon get ready to
fight
Zeus considers
trying to save his
son Sarpedon,
but Hera talks
him out of
interfering in the
destiny of the
mortal children
of gods.

13. Sarpedon is killed by Patroclus

15. Battle rages over the dead body of
Sarpedon
The Greeks
capture the
armor, but Zeus
has sleep and
death whisk the
body of his son
away.

17. Sleep and Death deliver Sarpedon

18. Patroclus ignores the command of
Achilles and heads towards Troy
After a killing spree,
Apollo stops him,
Euphorbus wounds
him, and Hector
finishes him off.

23. With dying breath, Patroclus tells Hector
he will soon be killed by Achilles

24. Book XVII
The Greeks, led by Menelaus, fight for the body
of Patroclus.
Hector strips the armor of Achilles off Patroclus’
body and puts it on.
Menelaus and Ajax protect the body from the
Trojans.

25. Ajax defends the body of Patroclus

26. Menelaus drags the
body to safety.

28. Book XVIII
Antilochus reports the death of Patroclus to
Achilles, whose cry of mourning reaches Thetis
and the Nereids.
Patroclos’ body is brought to Achilles tent,
where he and his mother mourn.

33. Thetis consoles Achilles

34. But his grief is boundless
Grief turns to anger, and Achilles vows to avenge
the death of Patroclus.
He has no armor, because Hector is now wearing
it.
Thetis promises to obtain new armor for her son.

35. Achilles scolds
his horses.

36. Hephaestus owes
Thetis a favor,
and agrees to
make new armor
for Achilles.

39. Hephaestus makes fabulous armor for
Achilles, including a giant gold shield

42. Book XIX
Achilles receives his armor and his ready to fight.
He unsays his anger, and Agamemnon responds by
blaming the gods.
Achilles is offered Briseis and gifts, but he only wants
battle.
Briseis is brought to him, and mourns Patroclus, who
was kind to her.

43. Briseis returned to Achilles

44. Achilles refuses to eat or drink
Odysseus argues that the army needs to eat so
they can fight well.
The army feasts, but Achilles sulks.
Zeus sends Athene to fill Achilles with nectar
and ambrosia.
Achilles exhorts his horses to do well in battle.

45. Zeus assembles the gods and gives them
permission to participate in battle

46. The Theomachy
For the Greeks: Hera, Athene, Hephaestus,
Hermes and Poseidon
For the Trojans: Ares, Apollo, Artemis,
Aphrodite, Leto, and the river god Skamandros

48. Apollo urges Aeneas to fight Achilles
Poseidon rescues
Aeneas, because
it is not fated for
Aeneas to die.

50. Achilles goes on a killing spree
Hector is ready to
fight, but Apollo hides
hector in a cloud.