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Iliad Characters
Character | Description |
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Aphrodite | goddess of love and beauty |
Apollo | god of healing, music, poetry, prophecy |
Apollo | distant deadly archer |
Apollo | god of the plague |
Apollo | god of the silver bow, Smintheus |
Athena | goddess of wisdom and warfare |
Hera | queen of the gods, sister and wife of Zeus |
Hermes | messenger of the gods |
Thetis | a sea goddess |
Thetis | mother of Achilles |
Thetis | the Old Man of the Sea's daughter |
Zeus | king of the gods |
Zeus | king of the black ckoud |
Zeus | lord of lightening |
Greeks -Agamamnon | Achaeans |
Greeks | Argives |
Greeks | Danaans |
Greeks | Dorians |
Greeks -Achilles | Myrmidons |
Achilles | mightiest Greek warrior |
Achilles | the headstrong/matchless runner |
Achilles | Peleus's princely son |
Agamemnon | king of Mycenae |
Agamemnon | fightng son of Atreus |
Agamemnon | great field marshall |
Agamemnon | lord of the far-flung kingdoms |
Calchas | Greek preist and prophet; the seer |
Helen | wife of Menelaus |
Helen | daughter of Zeus and Leda |
Menelaus | king of Sparta |
Helen | was carried off to Troy, by Paris |
Odysseus | king of Ithaca |
Nestor | king of Plyos |
Nestor | oldest and wisest Greek leader |
Nestor | the clear speaker of Plyos |
Nestor | the man of winning words |
Patroclus | Achilles's best friend |
Trojans | Phyrgians |
Trojans | Teucrians |
Andromache | wife of Hector |
Astyanax | son of Hector and Andromache |
Chryses | Trojan, priest of Apollo |
Hector | leader and greatest warrior of the Trojan army |
Hector | breaker of horses; the gallant captain |
Hecuba | queen of Troy |
Hecuba | mother of Hector and Paris |
Paris | Trojan prince who abducted Helen |
Paris | person who caused the Trojan war |
Priam | king of Troy |
Priam | father of Hector and Paris |
Peleus | father of Achilles |
Deiphobus | brother of Hector whom Athena disguises herself as to trick Hector |
Chryseis | girl stolen by Agamamnon |
Briseis | Achilles's war prize |