| A | B |
|---|
| King of "golden Ilium" | King Priam |
| Commander of all Greek forces | King Agamemnon |
| Greatest hero of the Greeks | Achilles |
| "Clever, crafty, wily, wise" King of Ithaca | Odysseus |
| Greatest hero for the Trojans | Hector |
| Trojan prince = "destruction of his people" | Paris |
| Wronged husband and King of Sparta | Menelaus |
| Greek seer "who knows what was, what is, and what will be" | Calchas |
| Queen of Troy | Hecuba |
| Princess of Troy who prophecies | Cassandra |
| Spartan queen now living in Troy | Helen |
| Wife of Hector | Andromache |
| Wise King of Pylos | Nestor |
| Greek herald who serves Agamemnon | Talthybius |
| Greatest friend of greatest Greek hero | Patroclus |
| Agamemnon's beautiful war prize | Chryseis |
| Achilles' beautiful prize of honor | Briseis |
| Fiercely loyal followers of Achilles | Myrmidons |
| King of Crete and ally of Greece | Idomeneus |
| Grandson of King of Troy in line to rule | Astyanax |
| Wise goddess on side of Greeks | Athena |
| Loving goddess on side of Trojans | Aphrodite |
| Athena disguised as Hector's brother | Diephobus |
| Helen's brothers | Castor and Pollux |
| Achilles' goddess mother | Thetis |
| King of Thessaly | Peleus |
