Wednesday, February 3, 2010

2/3/10


Greek

Trojan

Athena and Hera: anti-aphrodite

Apollo: Chryseis and Chryses issue

Poseidon, Hades, and Hephaestus: incidental

Aphrodite: Paris gave her the apple

Thetis: Achilles is Greek

Ares: Likes to fight/Aphrodite encourages him

Mortals

Achilles: Leader of Myrmidons, son of Peleus of Phthia

Hector: Greatest Trojan, heir to the king, “Breaker of horses

Agamemnon: High King, from central Greece

Paris: Pretty-boy, fop, steals Helen, not a warrior

Menelaus: KIng of Sparta, Agamemnon’s brother, his wife was stolen

Priam: old king, Hector and Paris’s father

Odysseus: King of Ithaca, well rounded, great warrior, and tactician, great thinker

Aeneas: son of Aphrodite, great warrior, subject of the Aeneid

Nestor: King of Pylos, old, wise, smart, great general

Sarpedon: son of zeus, has a life 3 times that of normal men, great warrior/king of Lycia

Diomedes: King of Argos, Athena’s mortal power outlet, 2nd to Achilles

Pandarus: Lycian Archer, decent fighter, breaks truce and gets killed by Diomedes

Ajax the Great: Giant, King of Salamis, beast warrior, 7 oxhide layered shield


Idomeneus: King of Crete, great spearman


Calchas: Prophet, seer, Greek’s soothsayer







Map w/ heroes and cities: http://pages.cabrini.edu/jzurek/homer/images/MapGreeceReedCollege.gif

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