A | B |
Cassandra | Despite vision, is ignored as usual regarding fall of Troy |
Deiphobus | Hector’s brother; impersonated by Athena |
Diomedes | Steals the Palladium with help from Odysseus; leads the Greek battle effort in Achilles’ absence |
Helenus | Trojan prophet; tells Greeks what must be done to conquer Troy (Philoctetes’ equipment) |
Hephaestus | Designs armor for Achilles |
Laocoon | The priest who tells Trojans to destroy horse |
Neoptolemus | Achilles’ son |
Nestor | Oldest and wisest Greek |
Odysseus | Suggests building the Trojan horse |
Oenone | Paris’ former love; refuses to heal his wound; watches him die and kills self |
Philoctetes | Bit by a serpent and abandoned by Greeks, who later need his bow and arrows |
Polyxena | Hecuba’s daughter; killed on Achilles’ grave |
Poseidon | At Hera’s request, helps Greeks against Zeus’ orders; ordered to stop fighting |
Sinon | The Greek supposedly selected for sacrifice to Athena; “abandoned” by Greeks |
Pandarus | Breaks truce that would have ended the Trojan War by shooting arrow at Menelaus (at Hera’s motivation) |
Laodamia | Protesilaus’ wife; kills herself to be with him in the underworld |
Protesilaus | First Greek to leap ashore at Troy, knowing that person would be fated to die |