Trojan War - Homeric Characters
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TROJAN WAR
BASED ON THE
FILM
TROY & ODYSSEY
Homeric Characters
GREEKS
Achilles
• Central character of Iliad, great warrior, son of goddess, Thetis, and warrior, Peleus
• the leader of the Myrmidons, son of Peleus and Thetis and the principal Greek champion whose anger is one of the main elements of the story
Helen
• daughter of Zeus, wife of Menelaus, the king of Sparta and consort of Paris
• With the assistance of Aphrodite, Paris and Helen fall in love and elope back to Troy, but in Sparta her elopement is considered an abduction.
Menelaus
- king of Sparta, the abandoned husband of Helen, younger brother of Agamemnon
Agamemnon
• king of Mycenae and leader of the Achaean expedition to Troy
• King of Mycenae, supreme commander of the Achaean armies whose actions provoke the feud with Achilles; elder brother of King Menelaus
Odysseus
• king of Ithaca, hero of the Odyssey (Odysseus)
• another warrior-king, famed for his cunning, who is the main character of another (roughly equally ancient) epic, the Odyssey
Penelope
• wife of Odysseus, mother of Telemachus, she is clever and loyal to Odysseus, she is contrasted with Clytemnestra
PATROCLUS
CRESSIDA
AJAX
AJAX the Lesser
- Achilles' friend; killed by Hector
- daughter of Chryse; captive of Agamemnon
- Achaean, son of Telamon, commander of troops from Salamis
- an Achaean commander, son of Oileus often fights alongside Great Ajax
CALCHAS
DIOMEDES
IDOMENEUS
- a powerful Greek prophetand omen reader, who guided the Greeks through the war with his predictions
- the youngest of the Achaean commanders
- King of Crete and Achaean commander. Leads a charge against the Trojans in Book 13
NESTOR
PHOENIX
TEUCER
- Oldest member of the entire Greek army at Troy
- an old Achaean warrior greatly trusted by Achilles, acts as mediator between Achilles and Agamemnon
- Achaean archer, half-brother of Ajax
TELEMACHUS
LAERTES
CHRYSEIS
- son of Odysseus and Penelope, matures during his travels to Sparta and Pylos, fights Penelope's suitors with Odysseus
- father of Odysseus
- Chryses’ daughter, taken as a war prize by Agamemnon
TROJANS
Hector
• Firstborn son of King Priam and Hecuba
• husband of Andromache, father of Astyanax, leader of the Trojan and allied armies and heir apparent to the throne of Troy
Paris
• son of Priam and Hecuba
• Trojan prince and Hector's brother, also called Alexander; his abduction of Helen is the casus belli. He was supposed to be killed as a baby because his sister Cassandra that he would cause the destruction of Troy. Raised by a shepherd
Priam
• king of the Trojans, son and successor of Laomedon, husband of Queen Hecuba, father of Hector and Paris, too old to take part in the fighting; many of his fifty sons are counted among the Trojan commanders
BRESEIS
• captive of Achilles
• mistress and love interest of Achilles, a woman captured in the sack of Lyrnessos, a small town in the territory of Troy, and awarded to Achilles as a prize; Agamemnontakes her from Achilles in Book 1 and Achilles withdraws from battle as a result
RHESUS
PANDARUS
DOLON
AGENOR
- king of Thrace; ally of Trojans; killed by Odysseus and Diomedes who take his famed horses
- Trojan commander killed by Diomedes
- Trojan spy killed by Odysseusand Diomedes
- a Trojan warrior who attempts to fight Achilles in Book 21
AENEAS
ANTENOR
POLYDAMAS
- cousin of Hector, son of Aphrodite, the only major Trojan figure to survive the war, forefather of the founders of Rome
- a Trojan nobleman who argues that Helen should be returned to Menelaus in order to end the war
- a young Trojan commander
GLAUCUS
SARPEDON
- co-leader of the Lycian
forces allied to the Trojan
cause with Sarpedon
- co-leader of the Lycian forces allied to the Trojan cause with Glaucus, son of Zeus
REFERENCES:1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_War2 en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_Greek_mythological