| A | B |
|---|
| Achilles | Refuses to fight for leader he feels has disgraced him |
| Aeneas | Troy’s best fighter after Hector |
| Agamemnon | Leader of Greek forces; bickers with Achilles |
| Ajax | Bitter over losing prize of Achilles’ armor; driven mad; kills sheep and self |
| Andromache | Hector’s wife |
| Apollo | Shoots fiery arrows down upon the Greek army and sickens them |
| Ares | God of War; characterized as a bully |
| Astyanax | Hector’s infant son; thrown to death from the walls of the city |
| Athena | Goddess who ignores offering of robe and Trojan women’s appeal for mercy |
| Briseis | The “prize of honor” taken from Achilles’ tent to satisfy Agamemnon |
| Calchas | Prophet who declares captive must be returned to father |
| Chryseis | Daughter of a priest of Apollo; her abduction causes a plague |
| Eris | Apple-throwing goddess of Discord |
| Hector | Kills Patroclus; dubbed “tamer of horses” |
| Hecuba | Queen of Troy |
| Hera | Goddess determined that the war should not end until Troy was ruined |
| Iris | The rainbow messenger goddess |
| Menelaus | Helen’s husband; fights Paris in single combat |
| Patroclus | Achilles’ dearest friend; killed while wearing Achilles’ armor |
| Priam | King of Troy; begs for return of son’s body |
| Thetis | Angered goddess who asks Zeus to give success to the Trojans |
| Tyndareus | Husband of Helen’s mother; made suitors agree to alliance |
