Post on 23-Mar-2020
TROJANSHouse of Troy
PRIAMThe Last King of Troy|
Priam saw 13 of his sons die in the Trojan War
HECUBAA queen|Wife of King Priam during the Trojan War, with whom she had 19 children
CASSANDRAApollo gave her the power of prophecy in order to seduce her, but when she refused him, he gave her
the curse of never being believed
TROILUSRegarded as a paragon of youthful male
beauty|ambushed and murdered by Achilles
CREUSAEldest daughter|Died fleeing from
Troy and her ghost then prophesied the future
POLYDORUSPrium’s youngest son|
In the Iliad he is killed by Achilles
HECTORFirst-born son|The greatest hero of the Trojan War|
Killed by Achillies who attached his body to a carriage and dragged it around the city
PARISAbducted Menelaus’s wife Helen which
led to the Trojan War|Killed Achilles by shooting an arrow into his heel
GREEKSHouse of Atreus
ZEUSFather of
Gods and Men
TANTALUS DIONETantalus cut up his son and served him up in a banquet for the gods
LEDAWife of King Tyndareus of Sparta | Zeus seduced her in the guise
of a swan|Which children are the progeny of Tyndareus, the mortal king, and which are of Zeus and thus half-immortal, is not consis-
tent among accounts
NIOBENiobe’s fourteen children were
slain before her eyes
AEROPE ATREUSAtreus was exiled by his father
for killing his half-brother
THYESTESIn revenge, Atreus serves Thyestes
his own sons for dinner
HERMIONEMarries Orestes
after he kills her husband, Neoptolemus
ORESTESMurders his
mother, Clytemnestra, and her lover,
Aegisthus
ELECTRAHelps Orestes kill
Clytemnestra|Goes mad and tries to kill
her sister
IPHIGENIASacrificed by her
father, Agamemnon,in order to gain favorable winds
AEGISTHUSClytemnestra’s lover|Helped kill Agamemnon
PLUTOA nymph of Mount Sipylos in western Anatolia |one
of the 3000 Oceanids
PELOPS HIPPODAMIAPelops’s father boiled him
alive and fed him to the gods
CLYTEMNESTRAWith her lover Aegisthus’s help, Clytemnestra killed her husband
(Agamemnon) to avenge the death of her daughter, Iphigenia
POLLUX & CASTORTwin brothers|Though accounts
of their birth are varied, many say Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, and Pollux the
divine son of Zeus
AEGINANymph of the island that bears her name|daughter of the river-god Asopus
HELENAlready married to
Menelaus, Helen of Troy bigamously wed Paris
AEACUS ENDEISAeacus was king of the
island of Aegina, renowned in all Greece for his justice and piety
PELEUS THETISPelius was first married to Anti-gone. After her death, he married the sea nymph Thetis with whom he had seven sons, six of whom
died in infancy—the only surviving son was Achilles.
ACHILLESGreek hero of the Trojan War|
The central character and great-est warrior of Homer’s Iliad.
MENELAUSLeader of the Spartan
contingent of the Greek army|Menelaus challenges Paris to a duel for Helen’s return. Before he can kill Paris and claim victory,
Aphrodite spirits Paris away.
AGAMEMNON Leader of the Greek forces during the Trojan War|When the Greeks
sailed for Troy, Agamemnon reluctantly agreed to the sacrifice
his daughter Iphigenia to gain favorable winds|Aegisthus and Clytemnestra kill Agamemnon.
PELOPIA + THYESTESThyestes committed
incest with his daughter, Pelopia, and impregnated her; she
gave birth to Aegisthus and abandoned him.
CHRYSOTHEMISSome say she was killed by her brother Orestes when he avenged the
death of his father
ELECTRA (PLEIAD)Daughter of Atlas|Raped by Zeus|Referred to as the lost
Pleiad, disappearing in grief after the destruction of Troy
DARDANUS BATEADardanus founded the Trojan Race
ERICHTHONIUS ASTYOCHEErichthonius reigned peacefully for sixty five
years and was succeeded by his son Tros
TROS CALLIRRHOETros is the eponym of Troy ILUS EURYDICE
Ilus was instructed by an oracle to build the city of Troy
LAOMEDON LEUCIPPELaomedon persuaded Poseidon and Apollo to build the
city walls of Troy and then never rewarded them
Sources: Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World edited by John Roberts, Edith Hamilton’s Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, and the Oxford Classical Dictionary edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Photo of Mark L. Montgomery and Stephanie Andrea Barron (joe mazza/brave lux inc).