Mythology Trojan War Main Characters

Latin practice stuff

Peleus

Groom of wedding, mortal man

Thetis

Bride of wedding, sea goddess

Eris

not invited to the wedding, goddess of strife, throws golden apple

Zeus

King of the gods, Organizes wedding

Hera

Queen of the gods, offers kingdoms and power to paris

Athena

Goddess of wisdom and war, offers Paris skill knowledge and victory

Aphrodite

Goddess of love, offers Paris love from the most beautiful woman

Paris

Chooses Aphrodite, kidnaps Helen, Prince of troy

Priam

King of troy, begs for Hector’s body

Hecuba

Queen of Troy

Helen

Child of Zeus and Leda, most beautiful woman, supposed to be married to Menelaus 

Clytemnestra

mortal child of Leda and Tyndareus, Agamemnon’s wife, daughter gets sacrificed, kills Agamemnon 

Tyndareus

King of Sparta, father of Helen Clytemnestra Castor Pollux, Made suitors swear to protect Helen

Leda

Affair with Tyndareus and Zeus (swan), mother of Helen Clytemnestra Pollux Castor

Menelaus

supposed to marry helen

Agamemnon

commander, husband of Clytemnestra, sacrifices his daughter (Iphigenia)

Achilles

Driven by emotion, son of Peleus and Thetis, hison Scyros as a girl, Odysseus tricked him into joining 

Odysseus

King of Ithaca, married to Penelope, has an infant son, attempts to avoid war, makes the Trojan horse strategy 

Iphigenia

Daughter of Agamemnon, Gets sacrificed to Artemis so the ships can pass

Hector

brother of Priam, kills Patroclus, Killed by Achilles, husband of Andromache 

Partclus

Friend of Achilles, killed by hector, disguises as Achilles

Laucoon

Priest who says no to bringing the horse into the troy, gets killed by sea serpents 

Cassandra 

Princess of troy, prophet cursed to never be believed, tells them not to bring in the horse

Sinon

Greek spy, Signals the greek fleet at Tenedos to come

Neoptolemus/Pyrrhus

Achilles’s son, kills priam, gets Andromache

Aeneas

Fled troy with his father and many others