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