Authors: Gene Wolfe
Hegesistratus
—Mardonius's seer and sorcerer.
Hellas
—The country of the Hellenes, a peninsula extending south into the sea.
Hellenes
—The sons and daughters of Hellen, linked by a common language.
Hieron
—The tyrant of Syracuse.
Hippephode
—The queen of the Amazons; her name means "cavalry charge."
Hippostizein
—The tallest Amazon; her name means "trooper."
Hippoxleas
—A Silent One, reporting to Cyklos.
Hubrias
—A merchant captain of Hundred-Eyed.
Huntress
—An aspect of the Triple Goddess.
lamidae
—A clan of prophets, descended from Iamus.
llion
—A ruined city of the Troad; it lies on the Asian coast south of Sestos, near the southern outlet of Helle's Sea.
Kemet
—Riverland; the black land.
Kotys
—The name of numerous Thracian kings.
Kotytto
—A name under which Gaea is worshiped in Thrace.
Kronos
—The king of the old gods; he prevented the heavens from further influencing the development of life on earth.
kybernetes
—Sailing master.
Lacedaemon
—That portion of the Silent Country anciently governed by Rope; the lambda on the Rope Makers' hoplons derives from this name.
Lewqys—Lucius,
as pronounced by a Crimson Man.
Luhitu
—Possibly a garbling of
Latium.
Melas
—A river of Thrace.
Miltiades
—The victorious commander at the Battle of Fennel Field and the builder of the wall across the Chersonese.
Mnemosyne
—A titaness; her nine daughters are the goddesses of astronomy, comedy, dance, geometry, history, poetry, rhetoric, song, and tragedy.
Molossis
—The region between the Acheron and the Arethon; it is famous for its huge dogs, which are widely exported.
Muslak
—A merchant captain of Byblos.
Nereus
—Among the old gods, the sea god.
Nessibur
—A Thracian nobleman.
Oeobazus
—The Median engineer who built the bridge of boats across Helle's Sea.
Orpheus
—A shaman killed by the Thracian women; his head was cast into the Hebrus, still pronouncing the name of his lost wife.
Orsippos
—A magnate of Hundred-Eyed.
Pactye
—The northernmost city of the Chersonese, just south of Miltiades's Wall.
Paetians
—The Thracian tribe north of the Apsinthians.
Pandion
—An ancient king of Thought.
Parnassos
—A lofty mountain north of the Gulf; Dolphins is on this mountain.
peltast
—A foot soldier armed with a pair of javelins and a pelta.
Pericles
—Xanthippos's teenage son.
Perseus
—The father of Perses, and thus the founder of the nation of the Great King.
Pharetra
—The Amazon loved by Latro.
Philomela
—A princess of ancient Thought; her name means "lover of song."
Phistorus
—A name under which the War God is worshiped in Thrace.
Polos
—The young centaur sent to Latro by Gaea.
Polygnotos
—A famous painter of Thought; Cimon's sister Elpinice is rumored to be his mistress.
Priam
—The last king of Ilion.
Procne
—A princess of ancient Thought; her name means "firstborn."
Protesilaos
—The first hero to die at the siege of Ilion.
pythia
—The Destroyer's virgin prophetess, probably about fifteen.
Pythic Games
—Contests held at Dolphins every four years in honor of the Destroyer; they include competitions in music and poetry as well as footraces, boxing, etc.
python
—Gaea's sacred serpent, slain by the Destroyer; it haunts the oracle he wrested from her.
Raskos
—A peltast killed by Latro.
Rhea
—The mother of the gods. A name under which Cybele is worshiped in the west; it means "earth."
Seven Lions
—The black man.
Sicily
—A large island west of the Gulf.
Sidon
—The capital of the Crimson Men; the king of Sidon is the commander of the Great King's navy.
Sisyphus
—The first king of Tower Hill.
Swollenfoot
—A king of ancient Hill.
Syracuse
—A great city established by colonists from Tower Hill.
Tegea
—A small city in Bearland.
Tellias
—The founder of the anti-Laconian branch of the Iamidae.
Tereus
—The name of numerous Thracian kings.
Thamyris
—A Thracian prince; King Kotys's chief adviser.
Thespiae
—A small city in Cowland.
Thrace
—A vast barbarian country stretching from the eastern bank of the Nestos to the western shore of the Euxine.
Til/on
—A slave of Themistocles's.
Troad
—The area once controlled by Ilion, including the Thracian Chersonese, Mysia, and Phrygia Minor.
Xerxes
—Khshayarsha, the Great King, ruler of the Empire.
Zakunthios
—An island west of Elis.
Zalmoxis
—A shape-changing shaman deified; his name is presumably derived from the Thracian word
zalmo,
"skin."
Zeus
—The king of the gods.
Zihrun
—The alias adopted by Oeobazus.