The race was over when prince protesiluas was the winner and the first man dead from an arrow to the throat.And war started.
The greeks camped on the seashore for nine years.
They knew little about warfare. They did not seek trenches or block roads.
They attacked lesser cites for horses fodd and cattle also chariots.
The greeks kidnapped chryseis,briseis was given to agamemon briseis was given to achilles. Then their father priest of apollo prayed to apollo to get his daughters back so apollo shot arrows of diseases.