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Authors: Glyn Iliffe

Tags: #Fiction, #Historical, #General

The Armour of Achilles (49 page)

A

Achilles

–  Myrmidon prince

Adramyttium

–  city in south-eastern Ilium, allied to Troy

Adrestos

–  Trojan soldier

Aeneas

–  Dardanian prince, the son of Anchises

Aethiopes

–  black-skinned warriors from northern Africa

Agamemnon

–  king of Mycenae, leader of the Greeks

Ajax (greater)

–  king of Salamis, and Achilles’s cousin

Ajax (lesser)

–  king of Locris

Alybas

–  home city of Eperitus, in northern Greece

Andromache

–  wife of Hector and daughter of King Eëtion

Antenor

–  Trojan elder

Antícleia

–  mother of Odysseus

Antilochus

–  Greek warrior, son of Nestor

Antimachus

–  Trojan elder

Antinous

–  son of Eupeithes

Antiphus

–  Ithacan guardsman

Apheidas

–  Trojan commander, father of Eperitus

Aphrodite

–  goddess of love

Apollo

–  archer god, associated with music, song and healing

Arceisius

–  Ithacan soldier, formerly squire to Eperitus

Ares

–  god of war

Argus

–  Odysseus’s hunting dog

Artemis

–  moon-goddess associated with childbirth, noted for her virginity and vengefulness

Astyanax

–  infant son of Hector and Andromache

Astynome

–  daughter of Chryses, a priest of Apollo

Athena

–  goddess of wisdom and warfare

Aulis

–  sheltered bay in the Euboean Straits

B

Balius

–  famed horse of Achilles, sibling of Xanthus

Briseis

–  daughter of Briseus the priest, captured by Achilles at Lyrnessus

C

Calchas

–  priest of Apollo, adviser to Agamemnon

Cassandra

–  Trojan princess, daughter of Priam

Chryse

–  small island off the coast of Ilium

Chryses

–  a priest of Apollo on the island of Chryse

Clymene

–  Trojan woman, hostage of Apheidas

Clytaemnestra

–  queen of Mycenae and wife of Agamemnon

D

Dardanus

–  city to the north of Troy

Deidameia

–  wife of Achilles

Deiphobus

–  Trojan prince, younger brother of Hector and Paris

Democoön

–  Trojan prince

Diocles

–  Spartan soldier

Diomedes

–  king of Argos

Dolon

–  Trojan spy

Dulichium

–  Ionian island, forming northernmost part of Odysseus’s kingdom

E

Eëtion

–  king of the Cilicians, allies of Troy, and father of Andromache

Elpenor

–  Ithacan soldier

Eperitus

–  captain of Odysseus’s guard

Eteoneus

–  squire to Menelaus

Eupeithes

–  member of the Kerosia

Euryalus

–  companion of Diomedes

Eurybates

–  Odysseus’s squire

Eurylochus

–  Ithacan soldier, cousin of Odysseus

Eurypylus

–  Thessalian king

Eurysaces

–  infant son of Great Ajax

Evandre

–  cousin of Queen Penthesilea

G

Gyrtias

–  warrior from Rhodes

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