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To start, here's my condensed version that shows the age of most of the major characters at the start of the Trojan War, and the chronology of key dates:

Preface

This nearly century-long timeline is meant to show the key dates of the Trojan War cycle as well as the Argonautica and other nearby myths, and key events in the lives of many of its characters.

Year 0 is denoted as the year that the Achaeans set sail for Troy, with year 1 starting the moment they land at Troy. Due to the greater degree of uncertainty, all events before the birth of Helen will be rounded to the nearest five years. Information is primarily taken from the poems of the Epic Cycle (mostly the Iliad and Odyssey) as well as Apollodorus's library. Note that all of these dates are speculative (and often can be moved by several years) and I've had to ignore certain details that utterly mess up the timeline. May reblog later with my (very long) explanations of some of the decisions. Otherwise enjoy and feel free to ask any questions!

Timeline

Year -70: Nestor, Priam and Theseus are born

Year -60: Laertes and Peleus are born

Year -55: Hecuba and Anticlea are born

Theseus slays the Minotaur and becomes king of Athens

Year -50: Telamon is born

Year -45: Heracles is born

Year -40: Agamemnon, Odysseus, and Jason are born

Year -35: Menelaus, Hector, Paris, Medea, and Atalanta are born

Year -30: Clytemnestra, Helen, Castor, Pollux, and Cassandra are born

Atreus is killed by Thyestes

Agamemnon and Menelaus are displaced from Mycenae

Year -27: Odysseus gets his leg scar

Year -26: Penelope and Aeneas are born

Year -25: Diomedes is born

Year -24: Patroclus and Telamonian Ajax are born

Year -22: Heracles begins his Twelve Labours

Teucer is born

Year -21: War of Seven against Thebes

Diomedes’s father Tydeus is killed

Year -19: Helen is kidnapped by Theseus and Pirithous

Year -18: Events of the Argonautica

Achilles, Antilochus, and Deidamia are born

Helen is rescued by Castor and Pollux

Dozens of heroes join Jason’s expedition to find the Golden Fleece

Year -16: Calydonian boat hunt

Clytemnestra marries Tantalus

Year -15: Agamemnon retakes Mycenae from Thyestes with the aid of Tyndareus

Agamemnon kills Tantalus and marries Clytemnestra

Atalanta marries Hippomenes

Cassandra is cursed by Apollo

Patroclus is banished from Opus and is taken in by Peleus

Year -14: Iphigenia is born

Year -12: Oath of Tyndareus

Dozens of suitors travel to Sparta to compete for Helen’s hand

Menelaus wins or is chosen and marries Helen

Odysseus is betrothed to Penelope

Year -11: Judgement of Paris

Hermione is born

War of the Epigoni

Diomedes becomes king of Argos

Year -10: Abduction of Helen

Theseus is rescued from the underworld

Heracles finished his Twelve Labours

Year -9: The Oath of Tyndareus is called

Achilles prophesied to die in a war with Troy

Achilles sent to Skyros by Thetis and later falls in love with Deidamia

Year -8: Mysian Campaign

Initial attempt to attack Troy fails, instead razing the city of Mysia

Odysseus marries Penelope

Events of Medea

Year -5: Achilles marries Deidamia

Year -4: Neoptolemus is born

Year -3: Orestes is born

Year -2: Odysseus’s dog Argos is born

Year -1: Telemachus is born

Year 0: Achaeans set off for war

Odyssues forced to leave Ithaca by Palamedes

Achaean fleet sails to Aulis and is stranded

Iphigenia is brought to Aulis and is sacrificed

Year 1: Trojan War begins

Achaeans land in Troy

Siege of the city of Troy begins

Surrounding towns start to be pillaged

Year 2-8: Trojan War stalemate

Andromache is sent to Troy and marries Hector

Palamedes is killed by Odysseus causing Nauplius to plan revenge

Astyanax is born

Year 9: Events of the Iliad

Patroclus, Hector, Antilochus, Achilles, and Paris are killed

Telamonian Ajax goes mad and commits suicide

Neoptolemus is brought to Troy

Year 10: Fall of Troy

Using the Trojan Horse, the Achaeans enter and destroy Troy

Most Trojans are killed or enslaved

Many more Achaeans die on the journey home

Agamemnon is murdered by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus

Diomedes is exiled from Argos

Menelaus and Helen voyage around the sea

Year 11: Odysseus travels around the sea

Most of Odysseus’s men die from Polyphemus and the Laestrygonians

Odysseus takes refuge on Aeaea with Circe

Year 12: Odysseus leaves Aeaea and faces more obstacles

The rest of Odysseus’s men die

Odysseus is trapped on Ogygia by Calypso

Year 13: Telegonus is born

Year 16: Suitors start vying for the hand of Penelope

Year 17: Events of the Oresteia

Orestes kills Aegisthus and Clytemnestra to avenge his father

Orestes is found innocent by Athena and becomes king of Mycenae

Menelaus and Helen return home to Sparta

Year 19: Events of the Odyssey

Telemachus travels to Pylos and Sparta

Odysseus is freed from Ogygia makes it home to Ithaca

Neoptolemus marries Hermione

Year 20: Orestes kills Neoptolemus

Peleus dies in grief

Orestes marries Hermione

Year 30: Events of the Telegony

Telegonus travels to Ithaca and accidentally kills his father

Penelope and Telemachus travel to Aeaea with him and are immortalised

Work gifted to @thepagansun but also to @ninastasia0 for showing interest in the source!

Inspired by Aeschylus's Oresteia as well as other sources in regards to the Atreides brothers as well as the relationships of the two main characters with their peers Cassandra's children are mention in Pausanias The love Agamemnon felt for Cassandra is being mentioned in various sources although her emotions are much more complicated and daresay bittersweet and tough to explain. Her suffering though is apparent throughout the entirety of sources. Various references to ancient plays such as Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris

Oh I am not sure if I have made more posts about them than those you have already discovered but I can make a small catalog on some sources that speak on their complicated bond and in one ironic twist of fate, their destiny intertwining with each other.

So I shall list below some of the mentions I remember in regards to their relationship and the really complicated and bittersweet mentions

We know as early as the Odyssey how much Agamemnon was fond of Cassandra and not just in a sexual or purely carnal way. We know she meant a lot to him because Agamemnon tells to Odysseus that the most pitiful thing he heard (οἰκτροτάτην δ᾽ ἤκουσα ὄπα) was Cassandra's cry as she was being slaughtered by his side (ἀμφ᾽ ἐμοί) which has its own symbolism (at least in the Odyssey he had Cassandra sit by his side at the triumphant table). Agamemnon mentions his distress upon noticing the slaughter going on around him but he notably speaks on Cassandra only who had come to mean much to him. On top of that, the cry as she was being slaughtered by Clytemnestra gave him the force to attack and try to grab Clytemnestra and stop her even if he was dying himself.

Aeschylus's play "Agamemnon" is a place where we see Cassandra's view here. And not only Agamemnon's (who already mentioned that Cassandra needs to be treated with kindness and even spoke on how no one chooses to become a slave). He speaks very tenderly on her so he obviously cares deeply, at least as far as Aeschylus is concerned. Cassandra amidst her mourning and mumbling to Apollo how he destroyed her, she mourns her own fate but also mourns for Agamemnon. She calls him "noble lion" as opposed to the more diminishing "wolf" that she uses for Aegisthus. And says that "the lioness lies with the wolf at the pride lion's absence (λέοντος εὐγενοῦς ἀπουσίᾳ) She notes how their fates are intertwined . Sure she could be simply mourning for herself and how her fate is attached to Agamemnon but the way she speaks positively on him or using mostly positive mentions is certainly something that needs to be noted.

Euripides despite the fact that he tears the Greeks apart in his play "Trojan Women" he makes Talthybius mention to Hecuba how Agamemnon was truly and utterly in love with Cassandra speaking how "eros had striken him with his arrow" (ἔρως ἐτόξευσ᾽ αὐτὸν). Of course there the feelings of the Trojan women to their fate is different and that is of course to be expected given that their pain is fresh and how Euripides passes his brutal message and criticism to Athens but it is important to show that Agamemnon's initial intentions were out of love rather than pure lust and it seems that Talthybius mentions very specifically how Agamemnon had fallen for Cassandra as opposed to the dryer mention of others before or after him. It is also mentioned that the union would be some sort of "marriage" or "wedding" showing a different light to the emotions that Agamemnon held for Cassandra. Of course as I said initially Cassandra's reaction is almost madness. She calls out for torches to be lifted and set the show ablaze. I find it a very disturbing scene for the poor girl to be honest. Given also how she was raped a little while ago makes it logical that she is almost half-mad at the idea of being "married" to one of the Greek kings that belong to the bunch that did this to her. She doesn't know who Agamemnon is in that case. She knows only she was already traumatized in way more ways than one so the last thing she needed was to be given to one of the Greeks. I find the reaction to be both brutal and heartbreaking as well as her half-mad reaction. That reaction seems also to be an extra dime to Euripides as to why people do not believe her when she starts prophesying things hither thither.

Again on Euripides this time "Hecuba" we hear the Chorus (important how the chorus is captive trojan women) say that Agamemnon has been resisting the sacrifice of Polyxena out of his love or his desire for marriage (λέκτρον) for Cassandra and out of a similar desire and drive he seems to assist Hecuba to her revenge. In fact Agamemnon is compassionate on Hecuba who also brings Cassandra to the conversation. His interest and his understanding comes from both lover's and paternal interest since he seems to be finding common ground with Hecuba as a parent as he himself understands the concept way too much out of his own terrible experience. When Polymestor at the end of the play prophesies that Cassandra and Agamemnon shall die at Mycenae Agamemnon gets furious and orders for the man to be dragged away.

Ovid mentions in his work "Amores" (significant how it is mentioned to a work dedicated to love stories by the way) how Agamemnon saw Cassandra in the worst state possible (hair disheveled, clothes ruined and her disoriented) he fell in love with her and the love is spoken in the text as not mere lust since the example is given after the mention of Hector taking up the arms to protect Andromache.

However the most touching mention is given at a later source Philostratus the Elder or Philostratus the Lemnian. In his work "Imagines" he mentions an image that seems to be inspired by Homer where we see Cassandra throwing herself over Agamemnon to protect him from Clytemnestra who has an axe wielded over her head ready to strike. In fact Philostratus says that she RUSHES to throw herself over Agamemnon (ὥρμηκε τῷ Ἀγαμέμνονι ῥιπτοῦσα) and she even removes her godly symbols or the symbols of her protection of the god she served (στέμματα) and she wraps them around Agamemnon (οἷον περιβάλλουσα τῇ τέχνῃ αὐτόν) almost seemingly wishing to protect him with her body AND the gods she serves

So although we know that Cassandra is definitely a sad existence and has no choice of where her fate leads her and for sure one can say that her emotions are pure acceptance and nothing more, I cannot help to imagine that all the poets and ancient writers created so many parallels and mentions for a reason Somehow when I combine it to the frantic appearance of Cassandra's at "Trojan Women" to the compassion we have to other sources till Philostratus's mention of a clear case of Cassandra trying to protect Agamemnon WITH HER OWN BODY (so obviously her personal safety was not in her mind) could mean what if WHAT IF Agamemnon is not this evil monster who just uses women to his pleasure only? What if his emotions soothed a bit Cassandra to this terrible moment (and the bar was INSANELY LOW already given the circumstances) making Cassandra at least believe that Agamemnon was not the worst that could happen to her

It entirely depends on the a/b/o universe!There’s a lot of variances in all sorts of details between authors and my take on a/b/o is probably a lot more human and tame than most and I’ve taken some a/b/o bits of lore and thrown others out at my own likes and dislikes and discretion. I think typically, but not always, a mating bite is considered permanent and unbreakable.In the more stereotypical a/b/o verses where you see lots of sexism and omega abuse,you’ll see omegas get bitten against their will and forced as a mate for life to some horrible and abusive alpha.Typically in these scenarios a mating bond will make it hard for an omega to go against or stand against an alpha’s will.I’ve read quite a few a/b/o verses that weren’t even in Teen Wolf where alphas use an alpha voice that can send their mated omega to their knees with cowering subservience. These types of verses are used to illustrate that the mating bond,which is meant to be a wonderful thing,is often abused by those in power who are bad/manipulative/abusive ect. and because they are unbreakable unless one of the pair dies,the most an omega can do is run or give in.

In happier a/b/o verses the emphasis of a mating bite and mating bond being permanent is on how it is for a lot of animals,in which they mate for life.Once you find your person and you make that bond that’s it for you until death literally do you part.In some verses,though it is more rare,a bond can dissipate with time and distance.The mating bite is permanent so if an abused omega were to run away from a horrid mate,they could take another mate and a new mating bite once the original mating bond had faded.In these situations you do see a lot of emphasis on an omega with a broken mating bond as ‘used goods’ or ‘broken’ or someone else’s thing or mate.In these scenarios you see a lot of the omega filled with self loathing and thinking the object of their affections would never want them because they already have someone else’s mark on them,they’re sullied,impure.A lot of it mirrors or reflects stereotypical evangelical purity culture. An omega with more than one mating bite (especially when they’re usually on the neck and highly visible) can be quite embarrassing or shameful.I think I’ve only read a handful of verses where these standards were more similar to our modern and western views on divorce.

There are all manor of flavors for a/b/o staples.You’ll see variances in mating cycles (heats/ruts),mating bonds,power dynamics,societal hierarchies for the designations,levels of in-verse sexism,scents,knotting,and the degree of the strength of these more animal instincts.On one end of the a/b/o spectrum you’ll see verses where the alpha/omega instincts are so strong and all consuming that when an omega goes into heat an alpha literally can’t stop themselves or in verses where ‘true-mates’ exist,then when they meet they’ll basically mate in public because they’re so frantic.In these a/b/o verses you’ll see a big emphasis on the allure of an omega’s scent specifically and on the main pairing often giving each other mating bites very quickly,often when they first meet by pure accident because they are driven so strongly by their instincts.

I tend to veer far more conservatively with how I write my a/b/o.In the CMWIA verse specifically instincts are strong and they can guide a character just as their own innate personality would,but they do not dictate their actions.My a/b/o verse probably veers the farthest from the genre’s norms in that I have very little in-world sexism towards omegas and any mentions of it are minor and comparable to our own world’s sexist issues and not the more extreme forms of mainstream a/b/o.I do have heats for omegas,I do not have ruts for alphas.I do not have an omega’s scent being any more particularly alluring than the other designations,rather I more emphasize that scents are important and guide,but they are individual preferences. I do have biting and mating bites and mating bonds are typically for life in my world,though it is not unheard of for mated pairs to split apart if the fit is that wrong,though they are rare.One of the most common motifs of a/b/o is that male omegas can have children and this is also true in my verse,though I think I take a much more medically and biologically emphasized look at it than what is the norm lol Outside of a couple Teen Wolf fics I’ve read I don’t think I’ve seen another author be as nitpicky as me on suppresents and the hormone aspect,and that’s just my own weird particularity. I'm not saying that any of my approaches to a/b/o are better or superior,merely that a lot of my verse’s details are based on my own likes and dislikes for the verse.I like medical realism,or as much as you can get for something as weird as a/b/o,and I like giving my characters freedom and choices,which is why mating bonds can be broken and omegas are not weaker or controlled in cmwia.

nsfw (18+). includes aphrodisiacs, dry humping, rubbing cock over panties, possessive!caleb, caleb is gentle at first until you piss him off, this is basically ‘testing caleb's patience: the fic’, unprotected sex, creampie, i have to mention that caleb is possessive twice because caleb says some freaky stuff, sappy confession during sex, happy (horny) ending <3 likes and reblogs will be very helpful !!

Caleb doesn't accept love letters and chocolates whenever Valentine's Day comes along. However, girls directly stuff them into his bag without his knowledge sometimes, and you take it upon yourself to eat the sweets because Caleb would just throw it straight to the trash otherwise.

“It's a waste,” you'd always say. “You might not like them back, but they still made the effort to make chocolate for you.”

And then Caleb would shake his head, frowning, “Though most of them mean well, sometimes they put weird stuff in the food. So if I were you, I'd spit out that cupcake, pipsqueak.”

You usually don't heed his warnings—Caleb's always been kind of an overthinker. Now, though, you regret not listening to him as an unfamiliar heat spreads across your body, your core throbbing as you feel yourself dripping in your panties.

...The panties that's rubbing against Caleb's crotch right now, soaking the fabric of his pants while you grind down on him. Caleb's expression looks like a mix of confusion, worry, and arousal, his hands hovering above your waist as if unsure where to touch you. “Nn— hey, what's gotten into you? Do you even know what you're doing right now?”

You see his Adam's apple bob up and down as he nervously swallows, and you start feeling something poking you at your clothed core. Caleb sits up on the sofa where you pushed him down a while ago, grabbing your hands on his shoulders. “C'mon, tell me. I can't help you if I don't know what's wrong.”

Again, I posted something like this a while ago on my band blog - where I do actively write smut - but this one is new and revised! Please note: this only covers heterosexual smut, I’m sorry.

So for the (non-slash) fanfiction writers out there, here’s some more tips: (actually, some of these will work for slash as well)

Ranni the Witch

Well, aren't thou fascinating... I too am not what I was born.

Starscourge Radahn

Morgott

könig likes pretty things, young and vulnerable dolls that bat their eyelashes prettily at him, wrapping their dainty hands around his thick bicep, trailing beside him despite his perverse touch, letting him lure them to his messed bed in some dark apartment, fuck their brain silly.

it's always a one time thing, könig ain't good for a long term relationship because of the bitter need to posses that been festering in him from the start, they just use each other, he has a lovely built body that makes girls salivate, and he packs a cock that is too thick you able to feel the ache even the next morning while trying to escape his apartment.

it's not the same with you, könig notices it by the way you cling to him while he punches his fat cock in your tight pussy, shallow thrusts of his wide hips making his thick cockhead pummel into your spongy spot, your hands clinging against his broad shoulders, walls tightening with rapid pulsing.

you ask him for kisses, enveloping his rough mug with your delicate palms and letting his tongue make out sloppily with your mouth, whining broken groans as he presses a wide palm to your tummy, feeling the bulge beneath where his girthy cock pistons in you, making your pussy squelch with each wet glide, as you coat his length in oozing slick.

you even let könig cum in you, flooding you full of creamy cum that drips out your pulsing hole, making a mess from the sheets and your trembling thighs, not uttering for once that now everything is tacky, instead, you curl against him like affectionate kitten and try to nuzzle your face in the crook of his neck and wrap your cramping legs around his waist.

könig doesn't even knows what to think, you don't try to escape his bed immediately, instead pressing your naked body against his beefy one, letting his twitching cock stay buried inside of you, cockwarmed by your snug walls, as you let his burly hands envelope your frame and rock you to sleep like a baby.

and when you wake up early in the morning with pleasurable ache in your body and pussy throbbing, welcomed by the sight of breakfast in bed and könig clinging to you like a pup, smothering your neck in sloppy kisses and slurringly calling you his girlfriend, you don't run away.

his pace isn't nice, its straight mean as he pounds his thick, meaty cock into your drooling warmth, desperate to put a baby in your womb. he's not gentle about it either, mind racing and going dumb at the thought, hastily working to make it happen.

your tummy bulges with the way he sheathes his entire bulbous cock in your tight hole, spongy walls constricting around him, feeling every ridge and vein as you hug him tight. his angry, red tip punches against your cervix, ready to spurt his thick load into your sweet cunt.

he knows you'll let him, you'll let him do whatever he wants as he fucks you stupid, jackhammering deeper and deeper with relentless pace. the backs of your thighs reddening and your plush rear bouncing against his hips. his full balls slap against your clit, making you cry out into the bedding, saliva leaking from your lips.

above you, he moans incessantly, pussy-drunk and whipped as he mindlessly humps you, large, rough hands grabbing at your hips, so tight it might bruise.

he mumbles words you can't quite hear, feeling drooling saliva drip from his lips down onto your bare shoulder, running down your back. his jaw is slack, head tilted back and pupils blown.

COD P☆RN LINKS | PT. 3

ghost: always so quiet and reserved, seeing you like this is refreshing. so humane having ur guts rearranged after doubting your lieutenants skills! dove, you're so needy. but luckily for you, you have a patient, big bf came back from prices' baby shower now u and si want a baby of ur own, but u can't wait:( doughy ass bouncing on his long cock that no one's sucked in over a year, thankfully now ur here! sharing the captains daughter with soap<3 trusting is hard for him, so once he has you, he doesn't wanna let go warm winter fuck with ur gentle boy price: once you taught olderbf!price how to make hotter videos, he thinks he's so much cooler but that old man lives within him💔i mean look how he's holding the phone! you feel a big, throbbing thing in your tummy, hopefully he doesn't press down on it D: when u took him to meet ur parents, you just looked too good not to fuck afterwards :( as much as he loves his quiet girls, he can't say no to a bubbly one night stand now can he he didn't wanna have to do this but this IS what bad girls get... dadsfriend!price taking you upstairs during the bbq. there's so many people so no one will hopefully notice ur gone... soap: totally something soap would do, fucking you levitating 😭 first time having a crush this intense, taking sneaky photos of you, drawing you in his sketchbook, leaving you little gifts anonymously - now that you gave him a chance, he's too shocked to even do anything! honestly his dream is hot gf x loser guy he's a messy boy who likes his sex quick! so so much cum dripping out, it's like your boys' in heaven filthy gym partner can't keep his hands to himself only one person can eat you this well when you're sick, soap! gaz: your drunk sex was so good, you won't forget it even when you're sober <3 appreciating that pussy with the love and tongue it deserves so wet and tight like ur ex boyfriend did nothing at all smh, must've been tiny deeeeep in ur gfs womb! pretty boy barely ever gets angry, but when price has been on his back the whole week, and now you're giving him attitude - he can't take it anymore! hot belly bulge - who would've thought from the serene, goofy guy? graves: ah, so THAT'S how you passed recruitment i see, interesting... what a baby, never been with a real woman. actually a very soft, sensual man. don't mistake him as rough cuz of how he acts at work lucky shadow of the week gets to record the barracks bunny and graves kept trying to draw milk out of you but he didn't realise not everyone just...lactates :(he can't stop rewatching this video y'all took, how your greedy pussy just swallows his dick whole :o purposely just teasing you so he can see u angry konig: an efficient way to wake up his beautiful baby✨ his cold tongue and your warm socks make an interesting contrast🤔 he caught you masturbating all by yourself and you didn't seem to reach ur full potential :( loser!konig coded, once he finally gets his rough hands on you, it's hard letting a beauty like you go ruined ur cute little panties smh, greedy big boy mean colonel punishing his secret fuck buddy after he found out you've started talking to another person💢 bonus!!: surprise ;)