trojan war Flashcards
odysseus
king of ithaca, feigned madness to avoid war
agamemnon
king of mycenae, leader of greeks, menelaus brother
achilles
fated to die at troy, son of thetis, war cannot be won without him
menelaus
king of sparta
ajax
strongest warrior after achilles
diomedes
king of argos
nestor
kimg of pylos
philoctetes
archer, heracles bow, abandoned by odysseus on lemnos island for snakebite
neoptolemus
son of achilles, recruited by odysseus for war
cassandra
given to agamemnon
hector
trojan hero, eldest of hecuba and priams son
priam
king of troy
paris
archer, killed achilles
sarpedon
king of lycians (trojan)
iphigenia
daughter of agamemnon, sacrificed to artemis in order to get the wind to blow toward troy
patroclus
killed by hector
aeneas
lost his wife in the war, fled to italy, and his descendants founded rome, son of aphrodite
telephus
king of mysia, wounded and healed by achilles
hecuba
given to odysseus then turned into a dog
Andromache
given to Neoptolemus, son astjanax was killed by greeks
where did greeks meet before heading to troy?
aulis
story of telephus
greek fleets get lost and end up at mysia, achilles hurts telephus but then heals him, in return telephus gives them directions to troy
greek fleets get lost and end up at mysia, achilles hurts telephus but then heals him, in return telephus gives them directions to troy
story of telephus
what happened when greeks arrived at troy?
the first greek death prophecy was fulfilled, and the trojans went to hide within the walls