| A | B |
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| Achilles | Greatest Greek hero, an angry man |
| Aeneas | Trojan prince, led the survivors to italy to found a new city |
| Aeneid | Latin epic by the Roman poet Vergil, telling the story of Aeneas |
| Agamemnon | Leader of the Greeks in the Trojan war |
| Andromache | Wife of the Trojan hero Hector |
| Calypso | Calypso, nymph who held Odysseus captive in her bed for 7 years |
| Circe | Enchantress who likes to turn men into animals |
| Dido | Queen of Carthage whose love for Aeneas ends tragically |
| Hector | Prince and greatest Trojan Hero, killed by Achilles |
| Hecuba | Trojan queen, wife of king Priam |
| Helen | of Sparta, then of Troy, the face that launched a 1000 ships |
| Homer | Greek poet fl. 700 BC, author of the Iliad and Odyssey |
| Iliad | Epic by Homer on the Trojan war |
| Ithaca | Greek island home of Odysseus |
| Menelaus | King of Sparta, husband of Helen |
| Mycenae | Greek kingdom, home of Agamemnon |
| Odysseus | Greek hero, known for his intelligence and craftiness |
| Odyssey | Homer's epic telling of the homecoming of Odysseus |
| Paris | Trojan prince who abducted Helen of Sparta |
| Patroclus | Closest friend of Odysseus, caused Achilles to reenter the war |
| Penelope | Extremely patient wife of Odysseus, successfully held of numerous suitors for 20 years |
| Polyphemus | Cyclops, not too bright with a taste for human flesh and blinded by Odysseus |
| Priam | King of Troy, father of Paris and Hector |
| Sparta | Greek kingdom, city state, Menelaus' realm |
| Telemachus | Son of Odysseus, bullied and threatened by his mother's suitor's |
| Trojan Horse | Device thought up by Odysseus to conquer Troy |
| Troy | Ancient city state in what now would be Turkey |
