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ELECTRA (PLEIAD)

Daughter of Atlas|Raped by

Zeus|Referred to as the lost

TROJANS

Pleiad, disappearing in grief after the destruction of Troy

House of Troy

DARDANUS BATEA

Dardanus founded

the Trojan Race ERICHTHONIUS ASTYOCHE

Erichthonius reigned peacefully for sixty five

years and was succeeded by his son Tros

TROS CALLIRRHOE

Tros is the eponym of Troy

ILUS EURYDICE

Ilus was instructed by an oracle

LAOMEDON LEUCIPPE

to build the city of Troy

Laomedon persuaded Poseidon and Apollo to build the

city walls of Troy and then never rewarded them

PRIAM The Last King of Troy| Priam saw 13 of his sons die in the Trojan War

HECUBA A queen|Wife of King Priam during the Trojan War, with whom she had 19 children

CASSANDRA Apollo gave her the power of prophecy in order to seduce her, but when she refused him, he gave her

the curse of never being believed

TROILUS Regarded as a paragon of youthful male beauty|ambushed and murdered by Achilles

CREUSA Eldest daughter|Died fleeing from Troy and her ghost then prophesied the future

POLYDORUS Prium's youngest son| In the Iliad he is killed by Achilles

HECTOR First-born son|The greatest hero of the Trojan War|

Killed by Achillies who attached his body to a carriage and dragged it around the city

PARIS Abducted Menelaus's wife Helen which led to the Trojan War|Killed Achilles

by shooting an arrow into his heel

ZEUS Father of Gods and Men

LEDA Wife of King Tyndareus of Sparta | Zeus seduced her in the guise of a swan|Which children are the progeny of Tyndareus, the mortal king, and which are of Zeus and thus half-immortal, is not consis-

tent among accounts

PLUTO A nymph of Mount Sipylos in western Anatolia |one

of the 3000 Oceanids

GREEKS House of Atreus

TANTALUS DIONE Tantalus cut up his son and served him up in a banquet for the gods

AEGINA Nymph of the island that bears her name|daughter of the river-god Asopus

POLLUX & CASTOR

Twin brothers|Though accounts of their birth are varied, many say Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, and Pollux the

divine son of Zeus

PELOPS HIPPODAMIA Pelops's father boiled him

alive and fed him to the gods

NIOBE Niobe's fourteen children were

slain before her eyes

AEACUS ENDEIS Aeacus was king of the

island of Aegina, renowned in all Greece for his justice and piety

PELEUS THETIS Pelius was first married to Antigone. After her death, he married the sea nymph Thetis with whom he had seven sons, six of whom died in infancy--the only surviving

son was Achilles.

CLYTEMNESTRA With her lover Aegisthus's help, Clytemnestra killed her husband (Agamemnon) to avenge the death

of her daughter, Iphigenia

AEROPE ATREUS Atreus was exiled by his father

for killing his half-brother

THYESTES In revenge, Atreus serves Thyestes

his own sons for dinner

HELEN

MENELAUS

Already married to Leader of the Spartan

Menelaus, Helen of Troy contingent of the Greek

bigamously wed Paris army|Menelaus challenges

Paris to a duel for Helen's

return. Before he can kill

Paris and claim victory,

Aphrodite spirits Paris away.

AGAMEMNON Leader of the Greek forces during the Trojan War|When the Greeks

sailed for Troy, Agamemnon reluctantly agreed to the sacrifice

his daughter Iphigenia to gain favorable winds|Aegisthus and Clytemnestra kill Agamemnon.

PELOPIA

+ THYESTES

Thyestes committed incest with his

daughter, Pelopia, and impregnated her; she gave birth to Aegisthus and abandoned him.

ACHILLES Greek hero of the Trojan War| The central character and greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

HERMIONE Marries Orestes after he kills her husband,

Neoptolemus

ELECTRA Helps Orestes kill Clytemnestra|Goes mad and tries to kill

her sister

AEGISTHUS Clytemnestra's lover| Helped kill Agamemnon

IPHIGENIA Sacrificed by her father, Agamemnon, in order to gain favorable winds

CHRYSOTHEMIS ORESTES

Some say she was killed Murders his

by her brother Orestes mother, Clytemnestra,

when he avenged the

and her lover,

death of his father

Aegisthus

Sources: Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World edited by John Roberts, Edith Hamilton's Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, and the Oxford Classical Dictionary edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Photo of Mark L. Montgomery and Stephanie Andrea Barron (joe mazza/brave lux inc).

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