In Homer’s Iliad, what major event of the Trojan War is not narrated?

In Homer’s Iliad, the fall of Troy is not narrated.

The Iliad focuses on a limited episode late in the Trojan War, especially Achilles’ anger after his conflict with Agamemnon. Its action includes the duel between Paris and Menelaus, the death of Patroclus, and Achilles’ killing of Hector, but the poem ends before Troy is captured.

The poem concludes with the funeral of Hector. The Trojan Horse, the death of Achilles, and the final destruction of Troy belong to other parts of the larger mythic tradition and are known through later poems, plays, and prose accounts.

This is a common point of confusion because modern retellings often combine the entire war into one story. Homer’s Iliad is not a complete chronological history of the conflict; it is an epic centered on Achilles’ wrath and its consequences.