Editing Trojan War (section)

====Achilles' campaigns====

[[File:Wall painting - Briseis taken away from Achilles - Pompeii (VI 8 5) - Napoli MAN 9105 - 01.jpg|thumb|left|Achilles' surrender of [[Briseis]] to Agamemnon, from the [[House of the Tragic Poet]] in [[Pompeii]], fresco, first century AD, now in the [[Naples National Archaeological Museum]]]]

The Achaeans besieged Troy for nine years. This part of the war is the least developed among surviving sources, which prefer to talk about events in the last year of the war. After the initial landing the army was gathered in its entirety again only in the tenth year. Thucydides deduces that this was due to lack of money. They raided the Trojan allies and spent time farming the Thracian peninsula.<ref>Thucydides 1.11.</ref> Troy was never completely besieged, thus it maintained communications with the interior of Asia Minor. Reinforcements continued to come until the very end. The Achaeans controlled only the entrance to the Dardanelles, and Troy and her allies controlled the shortest point at [[Abydos, Hellespont|Abydos]] and [[Sestos]] and communicated with allies in Europe.<ref name=PK>Papademetriou Konstantinos, {{lang|el|italic=no|"Τα όπλα του Τρωϊκού Πολέμου"}} ["The weapons of the Trojan War"], ''Panzer Magazine'' issue 14, June–July 2004, Athens.</ref>

Achilles and Ajax were the most active of the Achaeans, leading separate armies to raid lands of Trojan allies. According to Homer, Achilles conquered 11 cities and 12 islands.<ref>Iliad IX.328</ref> According to Apollodorus, he raided the land of Aeneas in the Troäd region and stole his cattle.<ref>Apollodorus, ''Epitome'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+Epit.+e.3.32&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:chapter=&highlight=Achilles 3.32] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221019210558/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+Epit.+e.3.32&fromdoc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022:chapter=&highlight=Achilles |date=19 October 2022 }}</ref> He also captured Lyrnassus, [[Pedasus]], and many of the neighbouring cities, and killed [[Troilus]]; it was said that if he reached 20 years of age, Troy would not fall. According to Apollodorus,

{{blockquote|He also took [[Lesbos Island|Lesbos]] and [[Phocaea]], then [[Colophon (city)|Colophon]], and [[Smyrna]], and [[Clazomenae]], and [[Cyme (Aeolis)|Cyme]]; and afterwards Aegialus and [[Tenos]], the so-called Hundred Cities; then, in order, [[Edremit, Balıkesir|Adramytium]] and [[Side, Turkey|Side]]; then Endium, and Linaeum, and Colone. He took also Hypoplacian Thebes and Lyrnessus, and further [[Antandrus]], and many other cities.<ref>Apollodorus, ''Epitome'' 3.33; translation, Sir James George Frazer.</ref>}}

Kakrides comments that the list is wrong in that it extends too far into the south.<ref>Volume 5 p. 80{{full citation needed|reason=volume 5 of what? (need not be ''full'' citation, shortened is ok, as long as source is identified)|date=April 2024}}</ref> Other sources talk of Achilles taking Pedasus, Monenia,<ref>Demetrius (second century BC) ''Scholium on Iliad'' Z,35</ref> and [[Methymna]] (in [[Lesbos]]) with the help of [[Pisidice of Methymna|Pisidice]].<ref>Parthenius, {{lang|grc|Ερωτικά Παθήματα 21}}</ref>

Among the loot from these cities was Briseis, from Lyrnessus, who was awarded to him, and [[Chryseis]], from Hypoplacian Thebes, who was awarded to Agamemnon.<ref name=PC1/> Achilles captured [[Lycaon (son of Priam)|Lycaon]], son of Priam,<ref>Apollodorus, ''Library'' 3.12.5.</ref> while he was cutting branches in his father's orchards. [[Patroclus]] sold him as a slave in Lemnos,<ref name=PC1/> where he was bought by Eetion of [[Imbros]] and brought back to Troy. Only 12 days later Achilles slew him, after the death of Patroclus.<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' Φ 35–155.</ref>