| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Eris | Goddess of Discord and Strife, throws golden apple "for the fairest" |
| Zeus | King of the Gods, God of Sky, falls in love with one woman after another |
| Athena | Goddess of City + Civilized Life, daughter of Zeus, battle-ready, "grey-eyed" |
| Hera | Goddess of marriage + married women, sister and wife of Zeus, has a jealous nature |
| Aphrodite | Goddess of Love + Beauty, supposedly sprang from ocean foam |
| Poseidon | Ruler of Sea (and seafaring people), "Earth-Shaker", brother of Zeus |
| Hades | Ruler of the Underworld, God of Wealth, King of Dead, "unpitying but just", brother of Zeus |
| Apollo | God of Light + Truth, "most Greek of all the gods", master musician |
| Artemis | Lady of Wild Things, Chief Huntsman of the gods, protector of youth and virginity, twin sister of Apollo, |
| Hermes | God of Commerce and the Market, messenger of the gods, shrewd + cunning |
| Ares | God of war, "incarnate curse of mortals", detested by Zeus + Hera (his parents), ruthless but cowardly |
| Hestia | Goddess of the hearth, Zeus' sister, symbol of the home, only god/ess without a throne on Olympus |
| Hephaestus | God of Fire, blacksmith of the gods, son of Hera, ugly and lame, loving |
| Priam | King of Troy, old so does not fight |
| Hecuba | Wife of King Priam, mother of Hector |
| Paris | Prince of Troy, asked to award the golden apple to Athena, Hera or Aphrodite, stole Helen from Menalaus |
| Cassandra | Trojan prophet, foresaw the destruction of Troy but no one believed her |
| Hector | Prince of Troy, noble, brave, hero of Troy, knew that he would die in the war, Achilles' main foe |
| Deiphobus | Brother of Hector + Paris, Athena took his shape to trick Hector into fighting (and losing to) Achilles |
| Pandarus | Weak-hearted Trojan archer who breaks the truce when the gods trick him, continues war |
| Agamemnon | Brother of Menalaus, leads Greek army against Troy, killed by Clytemnestra, part of the House of Atreus, father of Iphigenia |
| Orestes | Agamemnon's son, kills Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, first member of the House of Atreus to want to, and become, "clean" |
| Electra | Daughter of Agamemnon, helped Orestes plot his revenge |
| Clytemnestra | Wife of Agamemnon, killed him, lover of Aegisthus |
| Aegisthus | Lover of Clytemnestra, helped plotting of the death of Agamemnon |
| Iphigenia | Agamemnon's daughter, killed to appease Artemis and let the army continue on to Troy, thought she was going to be wed to Achilles |
| Menelaus | Husband of Helen, King of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon |
| Helen | Fairest girl in all the world, married to Menalaus, stolen by Paris |
| Achilles | Dipped in the river Styx when he was a baby [immortal except for his ankle], Hector's main foe, son of Thetis, knows he will die in the war just after Hector, had argument with Agamemnon over Briseas |
| Patroclus | Tried to push Trojans back from the beaches, succeeded but was killed by Hector before he could lead an attack on Troy |
| Thetis | Sea-nymph, mother of Achilles, foresaw his death and tried to stop him from going to Troy |
| Odysseus | Smart, doesn't want to go to war just because of Helen, pretends to be mad to get out of going to war, probably the smartest of the Greeks |
| Ajax | One of the best warriors of the Greek army, fought with Hector, argues with Odysseus over who should get Achilles' armor. Athena casts a spell on him so he thinks that flocks of sheep + cattle are the Greek army, and when he comes to his senses he kills himself with shame |
| Diomedes | another of the great warriors, alongside Ajax. |
| Protesilaus | first off the ship = first to die, given heroes' treatment when he was dead |
| Chryseis | battle prize of Agamemnon, had to be given back to her father (priest of Apollo.) |
| Briseis | Achilles' battle prize, given to Agamemnon after Chryseis was given back to her father, then back to Achilles to make him fight again |
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