What was the outcome of the Trojan war?

There were
actually several different wars in ancient Troy as the city was built at an important commercial
crossroads where the Aegean Sea communicates with the Black Sea via a narrow strait. Modern
archaeologists think that the Troy described by Homer was probably what is now called Troy VII,
a mound at Hisarlik, in modern Turkey that was inhabited from c. 1300 to c. 950 BC and suffered
military damage in an ancient war.

Although the actual fall of Troy is not
described in Homer's Iliad, other historians and literary works describe it
as happening after the death of Achilles. After additional stalemate, the Greeks used the
stratagem of the Trojan horse to sneak into the city and kill Trojans in their sleep and sack
the city. The returns to their homes of the victorious Greeks were the subject of many poems and
plays.

Menelaus returned home with Helen. Agamemnon returned home with
Cassandra and was killed by his wife Clytemnestra. Odysseus returned home to Penelope. Achilles
was killed by being shot in the heel by Paris and did not survive to see the end of the war.
Ajax the Lesser raped Cassandra at the altar of Apollo, violating the sanctity of the temple,
and drowned on the way home. Nestor, due to his moral conduct, has a safe, swift, and happy
return home.