ZEUS - Getty
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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