The Trojan War (33 page)

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Authors: Barry Strauss

Agamemnon-Achilles quarrel in
Agamemnon as described by
Bronze Age as depicted by
Bronze Age literary style and
criticism of
guerrilla warfare in
Hector as described by
heroes as focus of
maritime world as described by
Olympians in
Thersites as described by
Trojan War story of
see also Iliad

honor

Horemheb

horses

humor

Iahdun-Lim, King of Mari

Idaeus

Idomeneus, King of Crete

Iliad
(Homer)

Achilles vs. Hector in
Catalog of Ships in
idealization of war in
malaria reference in
Menelaus described in
Olympians in
sea power in
swords in
Trojan War as told in
see also
Homer

Iliupersis

see also Sack of Ilium

Imbrios

infantry

Greek

Iphiclus

Iphigenia

Iphis

iron

Iron Age

Ishme-Dagan, Prince of Ekallatum

Ishtar

Ismarus, sack of

Iyarri

Japan

Jason the Argonaut

javelin

Kamose, Pharaoh of Egypt

Kirta

Kirta
(epic)

Kukkunni, King of Troy

Kupanta-Kurunta, King of Arzawa

Laertes

lance

Laocöon

Laomedon, King of Troy

Late Bronze Age

leadership:

of Hector
personal
in pitched battle
by subordinate officials

Lemnos, Greek raid on

Leuctra, Battle of

levirate marriage, practice of

Linear B writing system

Little Iliad

Locrians

Luwian (language)

Lycaon, Prince of Troy

Lycia

Lycomedes

Lyrnessus

Macedonia

Machaon

Madduwatta, Anatolian king

malaria

Marathon, Battle of

marriage:

diplomatic
levirate

medicine, practice of

Meges

Megiddo, Battle of

Melanippus

Memnon, King of the Aethiopians

Menelaus, King of Sparta

Agamemnon's quarrel with
background of
description of
in envoy mission to Trojans
Helen's reunion with
Paris's duel with
wounded

Menoetius

Merikare, King of Egypt

Meriones

Merneptah, Pharaoh of Egypt

Mesopotamia

Middle Bronze Age

military signaling

Minoan civilization

Mira

Murshilish II, King of the Hittites

Mycenae

Mynes

Myrmidons

in pitched battle

Mysia, raid on

Naue II sword

Naramsin, King

Neoptolemus

Nestor, King of Pylos

as advisor to Greeks

Netherlands

noise of battle

Nostoi

see also Returns, The

Nubia

Odysseus

Achilles' ghost and
in Chryseis escort mission
in debate on Achilles' armor
description of
in envoy mission to Troy
Helen and
Ismarus sacked by
in journey home
mutiny broken by
Neoptolemus recruited by
in nighttime scouting expedition
in secret mission into Troy
Trojan Horse ruse and
Trojan War as characterized by
wounded

Odyssey
(Homer)

irregular warfare in
reunited Menelaus and Helen in

Olympic Games

Onetor

paean, as term

Palaic (language)

Palladium

Pallas Athena

Pandarus

truce broken by

Panthous

Paphlagonia

Paris, Prince of Troy

Achilles killed by
Alexander as his Greek name
death of
description of
Helen abducted by
Helen's first meeting with
Menelaus's duel with
personality of
Trojan War as characterized by

Patroclus

assault led by
death of

Patton, George

Pedasos (horse)

Pedasus (town)

Peleus

Peloponnesian War

Penelope

penteconters

Penthesilea

Persian Empire

phalanx formation

Phegeus

Phereclus

Philistines

Philoctetes

Phoenix

Phorbas

Phrontis

Phrygia

pikes

Pindar

piracy

Pithana, King of the Hittites

Piyamaradu

Plato

Podes

Point Iria shipwreck

Polites

Polydamas

Polydeukes

Polydorus

Polyxena

Poseidon

pottery

Priam, King of Troy

Amazons and
death of
in Greek-Trojan negotiations
Hector's corpse and
Helen and
personality of
Trojan alliances formed by

Protesilaus

Ptah (god)

Puduhepa, Queen of the Hittites

Pylos, Kingdom of

Qadesh, Battle of

Quintus Smyrnaeus

raids

Achilles in
as guerrilla warfare
in Ismarus
on Mysia
on Scyros
on Thebes-under-Plakos

Rameses II, Pharaoh of Egypt

rams:

battering
naval

Returns, The

see also Nostoi

Rhesus, King of Thrace

Roman Empire

Rommel, Ernst

ruse, as war tactic

Russia

Sack of Ilium

see also Iliupersis

Salamis, Battle of

Sarmatian culture

Sarpedon

Sauromatian culture

Scaean Gate (Troy)

scepter, as symbol

Schliemann, Heinrich

Scyros, Greek raid on

Scythian culture

sealing, practice of

Sea Peoples

Selipiades

Seti I, Pharaoh of Egypt

Shalmaneser I, King of Assyria

Shamsi-Adad, King of Ekallatum

Shardana

shields

ships

Shuppiluliuma I, King of the Hittites

Shuppiluliuma II, King of the Hittites

siege, of cities

siege engines

siege towers

signaling, military

Sinon

slaving, practice of

slingers

snakes

“song of the bulls,”

South Gate (Troy)

Sparta

spears

Statius

Sthenelus

stratigraphy

Sudan

swords

Tarentum

Tawagalawa

Telegony

Telemachus

Telephus, King of Mysia

Tenedos

Teshub

Teucer

Theano

Thebes

Thebes-under-Plakos

Achilles' sack of

Thersites

Theseus

Thessalians

Thetis

Thrace, modern

Thrace, Thracians

Thrasymedes

Thucydides

Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt

Tiryns

Tithonus

Tlepolemus

trepanning, practice of

Troad,

Trojan Horse,

Aeneas's departure and
animal imagery and
burning of Troy and
as decoy
departure of Greeks and
as fiction
Greek plan for
in Greek victory
Helen and
Laocöon and
Odysseus and
sack of Troy and
Sinon's role in
Trojan debate on
wood of

Trojan War:

army organization in
captive civilians in
causes of
common soldier in
cremation burials in
dating of
epidemic in
food hunting in
gods in
Greek dissension after
Greek mutiny in
guerrilla warfare in,
see
guerrilla warfare
Homer's story of
leaders and generals of
length of
nature of
new generation of warriors in
number of soldiers in
Odysseus's characterization of
Paris's description of
plundering raids in
snake omen and
veracity of
see also
beachhead, battle of the; Trojan Horse; Trojan War, pitched battle in; walls, Greek assault on

Trojan War, pitched battle in:

Achilles' overwhelming assault in
Eris's visit and
firing of ships in
gods and
Greek discipline in
Hector's death in
Hector's frontal assault and
in
Iliad

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