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Aeneas | mythical hero of Troy and Rome; son of the goddess Aphrodite and Anchises |
Agamemnon | king of Mycenae; Leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War |
Ajax | also known as Aias; contributed 12 ships and many men to the Greek army sent to battle the Trojans. |
Calypso | daughter of the Titan Atlas; entertained the Greek hero Odysseus for seven years |
Cassandra | blessed with the gift of foreseeing the future; her curse was that no one believed her |
Circe | powerful enchantress; capable of turning human beings into animals |
Clytemnestra | the wife of Agamemnon; sister of Helen; daughter of Tyndareus and Leda |
Dido | founder and queen of Carthage; had a love affair with Trojan hero Aeneas |
Diomedes | king of Argos; son of Tydeus; commander of 80 ships during the Trojan War |
Discordia | also known as Eris; goddess of strife and discord; name means "disagreement" |
Eris | also known as Discordia; goddess of strife and discord; sent the golden apple to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis |
Golden Apple | "the fruit of discord" sent by Eris to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis |
Hector | leader of the Trojan Army; considered the greatest warrior of Troy |
Hecuba | wife of King Priam; mother of Cassandra, Paris and Hector |
Helen | daughter of Zeus; her abduction led to the Trojan War |
Iphigenia | sacrificed by her father Agamemon during the Trojan War |
Land of Lotus Eaters | place where the natives give some of Odysseus's men the intoxicating fruit of the lotus. |
Menalaus | king of Sparta; the abduction of his wife, Helen, led to the Trojan War |
Nestor | king of Pylos; helped Jason retrieve the Golden Fleece from the land of Colchis |
Odysseus | also known as Ulysses; king of Ithaca; married his daugther Penelope; |
Paris | son of King Priam; His seduction of Helen and refusal to return her was the cause of the Trojan War. |
Peleus | husband of Thetis; father of hero Achilles |
Penelope | wife of Odysseus |
Polyphemus | the giant son of Poseidon; famous Cyclops |
Priam | last king of Troy; married to Hecuba; father of Hector and Paris |
Sirens | singing enchantresses capable of luring passing sailors to their islands |
Telemachus | the son of Odysseus and Penelope |
Thetis | a sea nymph; wife of Peleus; mother of Achilles |
Trojan Horse | huge wooden horse constructed by the Greeks to gain entrance into Troy during the Trojan War. |
Ulysses | also known as Odysseus; king of Ithaca; married his daugther Penelope; |