The city of Troy itself might have been unassailable, but there was nothing to stop Achilles, Diomedes, Odysseus, Ajax, Menelaus, and the others from leading war parties to raid, scavenge, and maraud the countryside around. Wine, grain, livestock, slave women—all were fair game, all could help feed the great encampment. For nine years the Trojan War was more plunder than thunder.
