Classics 130 - Trojan War - The Pre-War Story

Achilles
Thetis, a sea goddess, Achilles's mother
Peleus, Achilles's father
Eris, goddess of strife

King Priam, ruler of Troy
Queen Hecabe (Hecuba) of Troy
Paris, their son (Alexander)
Hector, Paris's brother
Andromache, his wife
Astyanax, their son

Oenone
King Menelaus, king of Sparta
Helen, his wife, the most beautiful woman in the world
Leda, Helen's mother
Castor and Pollux (Polydeuces) the Dioscuri
Clytemnestra
Tyndareus, their mortal father
Odysseus, King of Ithaca
Agamemnon, King of Mycenae
Nestor, King of Pylos
Calchas, prophet
Iphigeneia
Patroclus
Phoenix
Deidamia
Neoptolemus
Diomedes of Tiryns/Argos (son of Tydeus)
Ajax, the greater (son of Telamon of Salamis)
Ajax, the lesser (son of Oileus of Locris)
Idomeneus, king of Crete
Philoctetes
Cassandra, princess of Troy
Laocoon, priest of Troy
Sinon
Aeneas, son of Anchises, father of Ascanius
Polyxena
Polydorus
Glaucus and Sarpedon, princes of Lycia
Memnon, ruler of Ethiopia
Penthesilea, queen of the Amazons
Deiphobus
Hellenes, Danaans, Argives, Achaeans, Trojans
Chryses - Chryseis - Briseis

Scaean Gate
Palladion / Palladium
Penthesilea
Phthia
Hermione
Epirus, king of the Molossi
 

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