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Iliad Characters
| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Aphrodite | goddess of love and beauty |
| Apollo | god of healing, music, poetry, prophecy |
| Apollo | distant deadly archer |
| Apollo | god of the plague |
| Apollo | god of the silver bow, Smintheus |
| Athena | goddess of wisdom and warfare |
| Hera | queen of the gods, sister and wife of Zeus |
| Hermes | messenger of the gods |
| Thetis | a sea goddess |
| Thetis | mother of Achilles |
| Thetis | the Old Man of the Sea's daughter |
| Zeus | king of the gods |
| Zeus | king of the black ckoud |
| Zeus | lord of lightening |
| Greeks -Agamamnon | Achaeans |
| Greeks | Argives |
| Greeks | Danaans |
| Greeks | Dorians |
| Greeks -Achilles | Myrmidons |
| Achilles | mightiest Greek warrior |
| Achilles | the headstrong/matchless runner |
| Achilles | Peleus's princely son |
| Agamemnon | king of Mycenae |
| Agamemnon | fightng son of Atreus |
| Agamemnon | great field marshall |
| Agamemnon | lord of the far-flung kingdoms |
| Calchas | Greek preist and prophet; the seer |
| Helen | wife of Menelaus |
| Helen | daughter of Zeus and Leda |
| Menelaus | king of Sparta |
| Helen | was carried off to Troy, by Paris |
| Odysseus | king of Ithaca |
| Nestor | king of Plyos |
| Nestor | oldest and wisest Greek leader |
| Nestor | the clear speaker of Plyos |
| Nestor | the man of winning words |
| Patroclus | Achilles's best friend |
| Trojans | Phyrgians |
| Trojans | Teucrians |
| Andromache | wife of Hector |
| Astyanax | son of Hector and Andromache |
| Chryses | Trojan, priest of Apollo |
| Hector | leader and greatest warrior of the Trojan army |
| Hector | breaker of horses; the gallant captain |
| Hecuba | queen of Troy |
| Hecuba | mother of Hector and Paris |
| Paris | Trojan prince who abducted Helen |
| Paris | person who caused the Trojan war |
| Priam | king of Troy |
| Priam | father of Hector and Paris |
| Peleus | father of Achilles |
| Deiphobus | brother of Hector whom Athena disguises herself as to trick Hector |
| Chryseis | girl stolen by Agamamnon |
| Briseis | Achilles's war prize |