Book II Names Flashcards
Anchises
Aeneas’ father
Ascanius
Aeneas’ son
Calchas
Prophet, Greek priest
Cassandra
Daughter of prism, coroebus’ wife
Coroebus
Cassandra’s husband, ally of priam
Danaans
Greeks
Dardanians
Trojans
Diomedes
Son of Tydeus; a Greek chieftain at Troy, stole the palladium with ulysses
Hecuba
Priam’s wife
Laocoon
Eaten by serpents
Minerva
Goddess of wisdom, sent snakes because they went to her temple
Myrmidons
Greeks, Achilles was their lord
Neptune
God of sea, Laocoon was priest for him
Palladium
Image of Minerva stolen by Ulysses and diomedes
Panthus
Trojan, priest of Apollo
Penates
Household gods
Pergamum
Diana as a moon goddess
Polites
Son of Priam, killed by Pyrrhus
Priam
King of Troy
Pyrrhus
Son of Achilles
Sinon
Greek infiltrator, tricked Trojans
Tenedos
Small island into Aegean Sea near Troy
Tritonian
Epithet of Minerva from lake tritonis in Libya
Ulysses
Greek chieftain, the Ithacan from the odyssey, stole palladium with diomedes
Achilles
Great warrior, killed hector, priam came to him as suppliant for the return of hectors body