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).