Trojan War Characters Flashcards
Mother of Achilles, sea nymph
Thetis
King of Sparta, husband of Helen
Menelaus
Queen of Sparta, Married to Menelaus
Helen
King of Mycenaea, brother of Menelaus, high king of the Greeks
Agamemnon
King of Ithica, came up with the idea for the Trojan horse
Odysseus
King of Argos
Diomedes
King of salamis
Ajax
King of Pylos, oldest and wisest greek king
Nestor
Son of Peleus and Thetis, greatest greek hero
Achilles
Achilles’s boyhood friend and companion, killed by hector
Patroclus
Famous centaur, trained Achilles
Chiron
Healer among the Greeks
Machaon
Has the bow of Hercules, was abandoned on the island Lemnos, kills Paris with a poisoned arrow
Philoctetes
Greek spy who convinced the Trojans that the wooden horse was a gift to Athena
Simon
King of Troy
Priam
Queen of Troy
Hecuba
Prince of Troy who fell in love with Helen
Paris
Married to Paris
Oenone
Prince of Troy who was killed by Achilles, greatest Trojan fighter
Hector
Trojan prince, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus
Sarpedon
Trojan prince who survives the war and is an ancestor of the Romans
Aeneas
Trojan spy, killed by Diomedes and Odysseus
Dolan
Trojan priest sea serpents killed him and his sons for desecrating the wooden horse
Laocoon
Trojan ally, king of Thrace, killed by Odysseus and Diomedes when they stole his horses
King rhesus
Trojan ally, queen of the amazons, killed by Achilles
Penthesilea
Trojan ally, King of the Ethiopians, killed by Achilles
King Memnon
Trojan captive girl whose father was a priest of Apollo, Agamemnon had to return her
Chryseis
Trojan captive girl taken from Achilles by Agamemnon
Briseis
Father of Achilles
Peleus
Oceanid, married to Peleus, mother of Achilles
Thetis
Goddess of strife and discord, was not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis
Eris
King of the gods, promised Thetis a Trojan victory
Zeus
Causes Helen to fall in love with Paris, sides with the Trojans
Aphrodite
Sides with the Greeks because Aphrodite sides with the Trojan, Queen of the gods
Hera
Goddess of wisdom, sides with the Greeks because Aphrodite sides with the Trojans
Athena
God of music, sides with Trojans, accompanies hector into battle
Apollo
God of the sea, sides with the Greeks
Poseidon