The Illiad Characters
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VocabABCSTan on June 10, 2010
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22 Characters from The Illiad
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Luxembourgish | English |
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| Paris |  The second son of Priam and Hecuba, left in a forest and found/raised by a shepherd |
| Priam | King who rules city of Troy |
| Hector | First son of Priam and hecuba |
| Eris | goddess of discord, was not invited to Priam and Thetis's wedding so she planned to disrupt it by leaving an apple that says, "For the Fairest of All" |
| Hera | Wife of Zeus who claimed she was fairest of all |
| Athena | goddess of wisdom who claimed she was fairest of all |
| Aphrodite | goddess of love who claimed she was fairest of all; Paris came and justified her as the fairest because she promised to give him the most beautiful woman in the world for his wife |
| Helen | woman whose beauty was unsurpassed |
| Agamemnon | King of the rich city of Mycenae |
| menelaus | king of Laconia, chosen to be Helen's husband |
| Achilles | son of Thetis, sea-nymph, skill with weapons was unmatched |
| Patroclus | close friend of Achilles's |
| Iphegenia | daughter of Agamemnon |
| Briseis | girl who was given to Achilles as a share of spoils but becomes Agamemnon's to repay him for his loss |
| Thetis | sea nymph, much loved by the gods and married to Peleus |
| Vulcan | lame son of Zeus and Hera, wrought gold and silver and copper and iron |
| Hecuba | Queen, wife of Prima, bore another son |
| Odysseus (Ulysses) | from Ithaca, a hero |
| Chryseis | Chosen by Agamemnon to be his slave |
| Ajax | Strongest/tallest of the Greeks |
| Aeneas | sons of Aphrodite |
| Laocoon | One of Priam's sons, priest of Apollo's temple at Troy who warned of the wooden horse the Greeks left behind |
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