Great epic The Iliad

 

How does Homer round up the story of his great epic The Iliad?

 

Ans. The story of the great epic, The Iliad is rounded up in the following way:

 

After the death of both Hector and Achilles the citadel of Troy remained as impregnable as ever. Ulysses then invented a plan to capture Troy. He summoned Epeius who built a huge hollow wooden horse. Ulysses and a few surviving Greek heroes lay hidden inside. A Greek named Simon pretended to be a deserter convinced the Trojans that if they carried the horse inside the citadel, Goddess Athene would save Troy. The Trojans were duped despite the warning of Laocoon, the priest of Apollo. As a punishment Laocoon and his two sons were killed by Serpents sent by Poseidon. The Trojans dragged the wooden horse inside. At midnight Ulysses and the Greek warriors came out and created a mayhem by killing all the Trojans and taking away all beautiful and young women. Then they burned down the city. King Priam was mercilessly killed. Andromache married Helenus. Her son was killed mercilessly by Talthybius. Queen Hecabe was taken as a slave by Ulysses. Cassandra became the mistress of Agamemnon. Menelaus tried to kill Helen; but her peerless beauty saved her life.

 

The survivors of the Trojan war, now terribly homesick, set sail for home. Only Ulysses stayed back to strive, to seek; to find and not to yield'.