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Authors: Glyn Iliffe

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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

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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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