chapter 20

pelops

son of tantalus, was chopped into a stew and served to the gods by father, defeated oenomaus, married hippodamia, father of atreus and thyestes

oenomaus

king of pisa, in love with own daughter hippodamia, defeated by pelops

hippodamia

daughter of oenomaus, wife of pelops

myrtirus

king’s charioteer, made deal with pelops and sabotaged king’s chariot

thyestes

father of aegisthus, took the throne after atreus, brother of atreus

atreus

father of menelaus and agamemnon, king of mycenae, son of pelops, brother of thyestes

tyndaurus

king of sparta, married leda, helped agamemnon take back throne

leda

wife of tyndaeus, mother of helen-clythemnestra-castor-polydeuces, had sex with zeus

polydeuces

semidivine, son of zeus and leda

helen

semidivine, daughter of zeus and leda, husband of menelaus, lover of paris

castor

mortal, child of leda and tyndareus

clytemnestra

mortal, daughter of leda and tynareus, wife of agamemnon, killed by orestes

oath of tundreus

odysseus’ solution, marrying tyndreus’ neice

hecabe

wife of priam, queen of troy, mother of hector

aulis

port of boeotia, where trojan expedition set sail

palamedes

son of nauplius, clever enemy of odysseus, stoned to death as punishment by odysseus

calchas

greek prophet of forces at troy, declared the greeks wouldn’t win without achilles

iphigenia

daughter of agamemnon, sacrified for the war at aulis by father

chryseis

daughter of chryses, captured in raid by achilles, given as booty to agamemnon during trojan war

briseis

achilles prize war captive, taken by agamemnon

andromache

wife of hector, mother of astyanax

astyanax

son of hector