Current understandings on its storyline are almost entirely confined to a summary of the Cyclic epics contained in the chrestomathy attributed to an unknown Proklos (possibly to be identified with the 2nd century AD grammarian Eutychius Proclus).
Agamemnon waits behind, to appease her; Diomedes and Nestor set sail straightaway, and reach home safely; Menelaus sets sail, but encounters a storm, loses most of his ships, lands in Egypt and is delayed there for several years.
Zeus sends a storm against Agamemnon and those accompanying him at Athena's request, thus Ajax the Lesser dies on the Kapherian rocks on the southern end of Euboea.
Neoptolemus follows Thetis's advice and goes home by land; in Thrace he meets Odysseus at Maroneia, who has traveled there by sea.
Neoptolemus arrives home, though Phoenix dies en route, and there he is recognised by his grandfather Peleus.