Editing Heracles (section)

===Heracles's sack of Troy===
[[File:College of the Augustali (7254063590).jpg|thumb|A fresco from [[Herculaneum]] depicting Heracles and [[Achelous]] from [[Greek mythology|Greco]]-[[Roman mythology]], 1st century CE]]
Before [[Homer]]'s Trojan War, Heracles had made an expedition to Troy and sacked it. Previously, Poseidon had sent a sea monster (Greek: kētŏs, Latin: [[cetus (mythology)|cetus]]) to attack [[Troy]]. The story is related in several digressions in the ''Iliad'' (7.451–53; 20.145–48; 21.442–57) and is found in pseudo-Apollodorus's [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Bibliotheke]] (2.5.9). This expedition became the theme of the Eastern pediment of the [[Temple of Aphaea#Eastern pediment|Temple of Aphaea]]. [[Laomedon]] planned on sacrificing his daughter [[Hesione]] to Poseidon in the hope of appeasing him. Heracles happened to arrive (along with [[Telamon]] and [[Oicles]]) and agreed to kill the monster if Laomedon would give him the horses received from Zeus as compensation for Zeus's kidnapping [[Ganymede (mythology)|Ganymede]]. Laomedon agreed. Heracles killed the monster, but Laomedon went back on his word. Accordingly, in a later expedition, Heracles and his followers attacked Troy and sacked it. Then they slew all Laomedon's sons present there save [[Priam|Podarces]], who was renamed Priam, who saved his own life by giving Heracles a golden veil Hesione had made. Telamon took Hesione as a war prize and they had a son, [[Teucer]].