Building of Troy's wall
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
I built the Trojans the wall · about to build the crown of walls to encircle Ilium · worked for Laomedon a whole year
spoken of as
1 expressionthe building of Troy's walls1 mention
Olympian (Greek)
the city will be destroyed with the first generation, and with the third.
in the texts
Iliad
The past episode, recalled by Poseidon, in which he and Apollo labored a year for Laomedon building Troy's wall and were denied their wages.
I built the Trojans the wall about their city, so wide and fair that it might be impregnable, while you, Phoebus, herded cattle for him in the dales of many valleyed Ida.
When, however, the glad hours [ hôrai] brought round the time-limit [ telos] for payment, mighty Laomedon robbed us of all our hire and sent us off with nothing but abuse.
Olympian
The construction of Troy's walls by Aeacus together with Poseidon and Apollo, marked by the serpent omen and Apollo's prophecy of the city's eventual fall.
the city will be destroyed with the first generation, and with the third.
But some ordinance of the immortals set up as a divine pillar for visitors of all kinds this sea-girt land—and may the dawning time to come never tire of fulfilling this— guarded by the Dorian people since the time of Aeacus, whom wide-ruling Poseidon and the son of Leto, when they were about to build the crown of walls to encircle Ilium, summoned as a fellow worker;