The Armour of Achilles (50 page)

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

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

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

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

Nestor

–  king of Pylos

Nisus

–  Ithacan elder

Odysseus

–  king of Ithaca

Oenops

–  Ithacan noble

Omeros

–  Ithacan soldier and bard

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