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| Achilles | Son of Peleus and Thetis. Greatest Greek hero. |
| Aegisthus | Cousin of Agamemnon and lover of Clytemnestra |
| Aeneas | Son of Aphrodite and Anchises, destined to survive Troy's fall. |
| Aeolus | King of the winds, visited by Odysseus |
| Agamemnon | King of Mycenae, overlord of Greece |
| Ajax son of Oileus | The lesser Ajax, a swift runner |
| Ajax son of Telemon | The greater Ajax, most powerful Greek hero after Achilles |
| Alexandros | Another name for Paris |
| Amazons | A nation of women fighters |
| Anchises | Father of Aeneas and cousin of Priam |
| Andromache | Wife of Hector |
| Antenor | Counselor of Priam and leader of the peace party in Troy |
| Antilochus | Eldest son of Nestor |
| Antinous | Handomest of Penelope's suitors |
| Aphrodite | Goddess of beauty, chief supporter of the Trojans |
| Apollo | God of the sun, supporter of the Trojans |
| Ares | God of war, supporter of the Trojans |
| Argos | Diomede's kingdom |
| Artemis | Goddess of the moon, supporter of the Trojans |
| Athene | Goddess of wisdom, chief supporter of the Greeks |
| Aulis | Place where the Greek fleet gathered, and where Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter. |
| Briseis | Captive assigned to Achilles as a prize, and taken from him by Agamemnon |
| Calchas | Greek prophet, father of Cressida and originally a Trojan |
| Calypso | Nymph who kept Odysseus with her for many years on an island |
| Cassandra | Prophetess who was never believed, daughter of Priam |
| Castor and Pollux | Brothers of Helen |
| Charybdis | A whirlpool crossed by Odysseus on his travels |
| Chiron | Old centaur who was tutor to Achilles and other heroes |
| Chryseis | Daughter of Chryses and captive of Agamemnon |
| Chryses | Priest of Apollo and father of Chryseis |
| Clytemnestra | Wife of Agamemnon and his murderess |
| Corax | Place where the herdsmen of Odysseus fed his swine |
| Cressida | Daughter of Calchas, loved by Troilus |
| Creusa | Wife of Aeneas, lost in the taking of Troy |
| Cycnus | Ally of the Trojans, son of Poseidon, strangled by Achilles |
| Deidamia | Wife of Achilles and mother of Pyrrhus |
| Deiphobus | Son of Priam who was third husband of Helen |
| Demeter | Goddess of the harvest |
| Diomede | A Greek hero, the charioteer, lover of Cressida and companion of Odysseus |
| Discord | The goddess who threw down the golden apple. |
| Elysium | The dwelling place of the happy dead |
| Ethiopia | The kingdom of Memnon, which was at the eastern end of the Earth |
| Eurymachus | Leader of Penelope's suitors |
| Hades | Home of the dead |
| Hebe | Goddess of youth |
| Hector | Most important son of Priam, chief Trojan hero |
| Hecuba | Wife of Priam and queen of Troy |
| Helen | Wife of Menelaus who eloped with Paris. The face that launched a thousand ships. |
| Hephaistos | God of fire |
| Hera | Queen of the gods and a chief supporter of the Greeks |
| Heracles | The strongest hero who ever lived |
| Hermes | Messenger god |
| Hermione | Only child of Menelaus and Helen |
| Hydra | Poisonous serpent killed by Heracles |
| Ida | Name of the mountain behind Troy |
| Iphigenia | Daughter of Agamemnon sacrificed by him to get a fair wind. |
| Iris | Rainbow goddess |
| Ithaca | The kingdom of Odysseus |
| Laertes | The father of Odysseus |
| Laocoon | Trojen priest of Poseidon, killed for attacking the Trojan horse |
| Laodamia | Wife of Protesilaus, who died of grief at his death |
| Leto | Mother of Apollo and Artemis |
| Lykaeon | Young son of Priam, who was caught twice by Achilles |
| Medon | Faithful servant of Telemachus |
| Melanthius | Goatherd and faithless servant of Odysseus |
| Memnon | King of Ethiopia and son of the goddess of dawn, ally of the Trojans |
| Menelaus | Brother of Agamemnon, husband of Helen, and king of Sparta |
| Mentor | An old advisor of Telemachus, whose form Athene used. |
| Mycenae | The kingdom of Agamemnon |
| Myrmidons | The kingdom of Peleus and Achilles |
| Nauplius | Father of Palamedes, who took revenge on the Greeks for his son's death |
| Nestor | Oldest of the Greek heros |
| Odysseus | Wisest of the Greek heroes, king of Ithaca |
| Oenone | Nymph whom Paris loved before he met Helen |
| Oileus | Father of the lesser Ajax |
| Olympus | Where the gods lived |
| Orestes | Son of Agamemnon, who avenged his father by killing his mother |
| Palamedes | Ambitious hero who was put to death on a false charge of dealing with the Trojans |
| Palladium | The sacred image of Athene which stood in the citadel of Troy |
| Pandarus | Trojan, uncle of Cressida |
| Paris | Beautiful son of Priam, who stole Helen from Menelaus |
| Patroclus | Beloved friend of Achilles, who was killed by Hector |
| Peleus | Husband of Thetis and father of Achilles |
| Penelope | Faithful wife of Odysseus |
| Penthesilea | Amazon queen, ally of the Trojans, killed by Achilles |
| Polyxena | Daughter of Priam sacrificed at the tomb of Achilles |
| Poseidon | God of the sea, friend of the Greeks |
| Priam | King of Troy |
| Protesilaus | The first Greek to land on the shore of Troy, and the first to be killed |
| Pyrrhus | Son of Achilles |
| Rhesus | King of Thrace, ally of the Trojans, killed by Odysseus and Diomede |
| Salamis | Kingdom of Telamon, father of the greater Ajax |
| Scyros | Island where Achilles was concealed by his mother |
| Sinon | Liar who persuaded the Trojans to accept the horse |
| Skamander | River running by Troy |
| Sparta | Kingdom of Menelaus |
| Styx | River bordering the land of the dead |
| Telamon | Father of Ajax and Teucer |
| Telemachus | Son of Odysseus and Penelope |
| Thebe | Andromache's native city |
| Thetis | Sea nymph, mother of Achilles |
| Tithonus | Brother of Priam, married to the goddess of the dawn |
| Troilus | Son of Priam who loved Cressida |
| Tyndareus | Helen's father |
| Zeus | Father of gods and men |
