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GREEKS AND TROJANS
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(They prayed to Zeus, Hera, Athene, and Hermes.)
| agamemnon: | King of Mycenae, High King of Achaea, the Greek leader |
| menelaus: | King of Sparta, Agamemnon’s brother, husband of Helen |
| achilles: | Prince of Thessaly, leader of Myrmidon army |
| odysseus: | King of Ithaca, the most cunning of the Greeks |
| patroclus: | The dearest friend of Achilles, killed by Hector of Troy |
| ajax: | King of Salamis |
| palamedes: | Greek hero, betrayed and murdered by Odysseus |
(Other important Greeks are Idomeneus, King of Crete; Machaon, surgeon to the Greek forces; Nestor, King of Pylus, the oldest leader in the war; Teucer, the half brother of Ajax, a famous archer; Diomedes, King of Argos and second-in-command of the Greeks. But these men do not come into this story.)
TROJANS
(They prayed to Zeus, Apollo, Aphrodite, and Artemis.)
| priam: | King of Troy, an old man |
| hecabe: | Queen of Troy (called Hecuba by the Romans) |
| hector: | Eldest son of Priam and leader of the Trojans in war |
| paris: | Younger son of Priam; he stole Helen from Sparta and was brother to Hector |
| cassandra: | Daughter of Priam, sister of Hector and Paris; she was a prophetess whom no one believed |
| aeneas: | Cousin of Hector and Paris, second-in-command of the Trojan army; son of old Anchises |
| helen of troy: | Wife of King Menelaus, Queen of Sparta, though she lived for ten years in the city of Troy |
