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Trojans Iliad
Major Trojan Characters in The Iliad
Description | Character |
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King of Troy. | Priam |
Queen of Troy. | Hecuba |
(also known as “Alexander”) A prince of Troy. Paris’s abduction of the beautiful Helen, wife of Menelaus, sparked the Trojan War. | Paris |
Reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the ancient world, she left her husband, Menelaus, to run away with Paris. | Helen |
Hector’s loving wife. | Andromache |
Hector and Andromache’s infant son. | Astyanax |
Agamemnon's slavegirl. | Chryseis |
Achilles' slave girl. | Briseis |
A priest of Apollo in a Trojan-allied town. The father of Chryseis. | Chryses |
A prince of Troy. The mightiest warrior in the Trojan army. | Hector |