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Aeneas | He’s a Trojan hero who helped defend Troy against the Greek soldiers. |
Agamemon | A king who led the Greek army during Trojan war. |
Cassandra | She was the princess of Troy, Apollo who was in love with her gave her the gift of telling the future. She was cursed so no one believed her. |
Clytemnestra | She was the the wife of Agamemnon, who killed him. |
Dido | Founder of Carthage. |
Diamedes | He was the commander of eighty argive ships and is one of the most respected leaders in Trojanwar. |
Discordia | Goddess of strife and discord, Greek Goddess name Eris. |
Eris | Goddess of strife and discord, Latin Goddess name Discordia. |
Golden Apple | Apple of discord which as the words of the fairest one written upon it. Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite began to gift over it. |
Hector | He was the prince of Troy and a Trojan hero. |
Hecuba | She was the Queen of Troy who conceived 19 children, her most famous child was Hector. |
Helen | She was said to be the most beautiful woman in the world, indirectly the cause of the Trojan war because she was abducted and held in Troy. |
Iphigenia | Daughter of Agamemnon, who was being sacrificed by him and eventully replaced with Sacred Deer by Artemis. |
Manalaus | King of Sparta whose wife was Helen who was abducted during the Trojan War. |
Odysseus | He was a Greek Hero, the great grandson of Hermes who was relevant to the Trojan war. He convinced the Greeks to hide in th Trojan Horse. |
Paris | He’s the son of the King Of Troy Priam, and his wife Hecuba. He abducted Helena and started the Trojan War. |
Peleus | He was banished from his home because he killed omw of his brothers, he is also the father of Achilles. |
Penelope | The wife of Odysseus, who looked over his kingdom while he went to war. |
Polyphemus | Son of Poseidon, who was depicted as Cyclops, blinded by Odysseus while he was sleeping. |
Sirens | Half birds, half women, who used their beautiful voices to lure in sailors just to eat them. |
Aeneas | Son of Aphrodite and Anchises. Played a large part in defending Troy during the Trojan War. |
Agamemnon | King of Mycenae and leader of the Greek army in the Trojan War of Homer's Illiad. |
Ajax | Son of King Telamon of Salamis and Periboea. Was chosen to duel Hector, prince of Troy. |
Calypso | Daughter of the Titan god Atlas and Tethys. One of the Oceanides sea nymphs. |
Cassandra | Daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba. Was cursed to utter prophecies that were true but that no one believed. |
Circe | Goddess of magic or sometimes a nymph. Renowed for her vast knowledge of positions and herbs. |
Clytemnestra | Daughter of Leda nd Tyndareus. Took Aegisthus as her lover while Agamemnon was at war. |
Dido | Founder and first queen of Carthage. |
Diomedes | Son of Tydeus and Deiplye. Became King of Argos succeeding his maternal grandfather, Adrastus. |
Discordia | Goddess of strife and discord. Homer equated her with the war goddess Enyo. |
Eris | Greek goddess of chaos, strife and discord. She was the daughter of Zeus and Hera. |
Golden Apple | The source of the gods' immortality and prepetual youth. |
Hector | Eldest son of Trojan king Priam. Husband of Andromache and chief warrior of the Trojan army. |
Hecuba | Chief wife of Priam, king of Troy. She bore to Priam 19 children. |
Helen | Was said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world. Was married to King Menelaus of Sparta. |
Iphigenia | Daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra. She retaliates by preventing the Greek troops from reaching Troy. |
Land of Lotus Eaters | Race of people living on an island dominated by lotus plants. |
Menalaus | King of Sparta and younger son of Atreus. |
Nestor | The wise King of Pylos described in Homer's Odyssey. |
Odysseus | Son of Laertes and Antikleia and the King of Ithaca, leader of the Kephallenians. |
Paris | Son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, appears in a number of Greek legends. |
Peleus | King of the Myrmidons of Thessaly. Most famous as the husband of Thetis and the father of the hero Achilles, whom he outlived. |
Penelope | Wife of Odysseus, and daughter of Icarius of Sparta and his wife Periboea. |
Polyphemus | The giant son of the god Poseidon and Thoosa. Was one of the Cyclopes. |
Priam | The last king of Troy, after succeeding his father Laomedon. |
Sirens | Dangerous creatures who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and singing voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. |
Telemachus | Son of Odysseus and Penelope. He visited Pylos and Sparta in search of his wanndering father. |
Thetis | A Nereid loved by Zeus and Poseidon. The gods gave her to Peleus, king of the Myrmidons of Thessaly. |
Trojan Horse | The story first mentioned in the Odyssey, it describes how Greek soldiers were able to take the city of Troy after a fruitless ten-year siege by hiding in a giant horse supposedly left as an offering to the goddess Athena. |
Ulysses | Roman equivalent of Odysseus. During his voyage home after the war against the greeks, his journey was obstructed by Poseidon. |
Acheron | One of five rivers of the Underworld.The river of sorrow and woe. |
Aeneas | Trojan hero. Son of Aphrodite. Ancestor of Romulus and Remus. |
Cerberus | "Hounds of Hades. Gaurded the gates of the Underworld. |
Charon | Ferryman of Hades. Takes the dead across the River Styx for a fee. |
Dis | A Roman God of the Underworld. Originally the God of wealth. Equated with Hades. |
Elysian Fields | The paradise where heroes who were granted immortalilty spent. |
Eurydice | Wife of Orpheus who died.Sent back to the dead after failed attempt of Orpheus. |
Ixion | Bound on a continous wheel of fire by Zues as punishment for trying to seduce Hera. |
Lake Avernis | A volcanic crater. Thought to be the entrance of the underworld. |
Lethe | One of five rivers of the underworld.The river of forgetfulness. |
Midas | Everything he touch turned into gold.Was punished with ears of a donkey by Apollo. |
Orpheus | Tried to rescue his wife, Eurydice, from the Underworld after she had did and failed. |
Osiris | The Egyptian God of the Underworld. Brother of Isis and Father of Horus. |
Persephone | Daughter of Demeter and Zeus. Kidnapped by Hades and was made his wife. |
Phlegethon | One of the five rivers of the Underworld. The river of fire. Thought to lead to Tartarus. |
Pluto | God of the Underworld. Brother of Zues and Poseidon. Helped overthrow the Titans. |
Proserpina | Abducted by Pluto while picking flowers.Queen of the Underworld. |
Sibyl | A prophetess who accompanied Aeneas to the Underworld. |
Sisyphus | He was punished by Zeus to endlessly roll a boulder up a steep hill for his trickery. |
Styx | One of the five rivers of the Underworld. The river of hatred and unbreakable oaths. |
Tantalus | As punishment by Zeus, he was to suffer hunger and thirst for eternity. |