Evandre
– cousin of Queen Penthesilea
G
Gyrtias
– warrior from Rhodes
H
Hades
– god of the Underworld
Halitherses
– former captain of Ithacan royal guard, given joint charge of Ithaca in Odysseus’s absence
Hecabe
– Trojan queen, wife of King Priam
Hector
– Trojan prince, oldest son of King Priam
Helen
– former queen of Sparta, now wife of Paris
Hephaistos
– god of fire; blacksmith to the Olympians
Heracles
– greatest of all Greek heroes
Hermes
– messenger of the gods; his duties also include shepherding the souls of the dead to the Underworld
I
Ida (Mount)
– principal mountain in Ilium
Idaeus
– herald to King Priam
Idomeneus
– king of Crete
Ilium
– region of which Troy was the capital
Iphigenia
– daughter of Eperitus and Clytaemnestra, sacrificed by Agamemnon
Ithaca
– island in the Ionian Sea
L
Lacedaemon
– Sparta
Laertes
– Odysseus’s father
Lemnos
– island in the Aegean Sea
Leothoë
– daughter of King Altes of the Leleges, allies of Troy
Lethos
– Trojan prisoner
Lycaon
– Trojan prince
Lyrnessus
– city in south-eastern Ilium, allied to Troy
M
Machaon
– famed healer, son of Asclepius and brother to Podaleirius
Medon
– Malian commander
Melantho
– Ithacan girl, wife of Arceisius
Memnon
– king of the Aethiopes, allies of Troy
Menelaus
– king of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon and cuckolded husband of Helen
Menestheus
– king of Athens
Menoetius
– father of Patroclus
Mentes
– Taphian chieftain
Mentor
– close friend of Odysseus, given joint charge of Ithaca in Odysseus’s absence
Mycenae
– most powerful city in Greece, situated in north-eastern Peloponnese
Myrmidons
– the followers of Achilles
N
Nestor
– king of Pylos
Nisus
– Ithacan elder
O
Odysseus
– king of Ithaca
Oenops
– Ithacan noble
Omeros
– Ithacan soldier and bard
P
Palamedes
– Nauplian prince
Palladium
– sacred image of Athena’s companion, Pallas
Pandarus
– prince of the Zeleians, allies of Troy
Pandion
– murdered king of Alybas
Paris
– Trojan prince, second eldest son of King Priam
Patroclus
– cousin of Achilles and captain of the Myrmidons
Pedasus
– horse captured by Achilles at Thebe
Peisandros
– Myrmidon commander
Peleus
– father of Achilles
Penelope
– queen of Ithaca and wife of Odysseus
Penthesilea
– queen of the Amazons
Pergamos
– the citadel of Troy
Philoctetes
– Malian archer, deserted by the Greeks on Lemnos
Phronius
– Ithacan elder
Phthia
– region of northern Greece
Pleisthenes
– youngest son of Menelaus and Helen
Podaleirius
– famed healer, son of Asclepius and brother to Machaon
Podarces
– Thessalian leader
Podes
– Hector’s best friend, brother of Andromache
Polites
– Ithacan warrior
Polyctor
– Ithacan noble
Poseidon
– god of the sea
Priam
– king of Troy
Pylos
– city on the western seaboard of the Peloponnese
Pythoness
– high priestess of the Pythian oracle
R
Rhesus
– king of the Thracians, allies of Troy
S
Samos
– neighbouring island to Ithaca, also under the rule of Odysseus
Sarpedon
– king of the Lycians, allies of Troy
Scamander
– river on the Trojan plain
Sthenelaus
– companion of Diomedes
T
Talthybius
– squire to Agamemnon
Taphians
– pirate race from Taphos
Tecmessa
– wife of Great Ajax
Telemachus
– son of Odysseus and Penelope
Tenedos
– island off the coast of Ilium
Teucer
– famed archer, half-brother and companion to Great Ajax
Thebe
– city in Ilium
Thebes
– city in central Greece
Thersites
– Aetolian hunchback
Thetis
– chief of the Nereids and mother of Achilles
Tlepolemos
– king of Rhodes
Troy
– chief city of Ilium, on the eastern seaboard of the Aegean
X
Xanthus
– famed horse of Achilles, sibling of Balius
xenia
– the custom of friendship towards strangers
Z
Zeus
– king of the gods
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