Characters signifacance in chapter 1 of the illiad

Agamemnon

• Steals chrysies as a prize

• refuses to return chrysies to her father

• Argues with achillies

• Returns chrysies

• Steals briseis

Briseis

• achilles slave girl

• gets taken by agamemnons heralds

Athene

• Convinces achilles not to kill agamemnon

• promises agamemnon 3x the prize

Chryses

• daughter gets stolem offers compensation which gets declined

• priest of apollo

Nestor

• very old/wise

• Has solution for achilles and agamemnons argument

Achilles

• argues with agamemnon

• gets briseas stolen

• walks out on greek army

• snitches to thetis

Apollo

• starts and ends plague

Patrocolus

• walks out on greek army with apollo

Hera

• argues with zeus about favoruing the trojans as she prefers the greeks

• queen of gods

• married to zeus

Thetis

• sea nymph

• Achilles mother

• supplicates to zeus to protect achilles

• rescued zeus when he got tied up by hera, posideon,athene

Zeus

• King of gods

• Got tied up by hera posideon athene and rescued by thetis

• can effect wars

• married to hera

Hephaestus

creates a party amongst the gods

chrysies

• gets taken as a war prize by agamemnon