Characters
Greek captain; taller and broader than any of the rest
Aias
battalions
"...I am at a loss..."
Idiom
Hectors wife; begs him not to return to battle
Andromache
a mound of earth for burial
barrow
“Troy, the minstrel sang, was the greatest of the Cities of men...”
Hyperbole
blacksmith of the gods; raised by Thetis and her sister
Hephaistos
unharmed
scathless
"We were not oppressive and we left the lady Penelope to weave her web."
Metaphor
Greek captain; great horseman; Paris shoots arrow through his foot
Diomedes
again
anew
“Now when Paris was in his infancy, a soothsayer told King Priam that he would bring trouble upon Troy.”
Foreshadowing
Trojan Queen; King Priam's wife; Hector's mother
Hekabe
a stretcher used to carry a body
litter
“And even as Telemachus spoke, two eagles from mountain crest flew over the place where the council was being held.”
Symbolism
goddess of the rainbow; messenger for gods
Iris
fortress
citadel
“Terrible was the clanging of his silver bow.”
Onomatopoeia
King Priam's youngest son; forbidden to go into battle
Polydoros
container for melting metals to high temperatures
crucible
“Said Menelaus, ‘Over against the river that flows out of Egypt there is an Island that men call Pharos, and to that island I came with my ships when we, the heroes who had fought at Troy, were separated one from the other...”
Flashback
most skilled Greek healer; taken off battlefield by Nestor
Machaon
clever schemes or tricks
devices
“The best of us toil and battle that you may come and take what part of the spoil may please you.”
Conflict
first Trojan hero to fall after Patroklos re-enters the war
Sarpedon
scolded or criticized
upbraided
“She took ambrosia and set it beneath each man’s nostril, so that what came to us was not the smell of the sea-beasts but a divine savor.”
Imagery
Greek hero from Mycenae; great with bow and arrow
Philoctetes
waving something in the air
brandishing
“Like a star that now and then was hidden by a cloud, so he appeared as he went through the battalions, all covered with shining bronze.”
Simile
badly wounded Greek soldier Patroklos tends to
Eurypylos
high wall with notches out of which arrows are shot
battlements
“But his wife had hatred for him, and in his own hall she and AEgisthus had him slain.”
Irony
Greek soldier who delivers news of Patroklos's death to Achilles
Antilochos
a wall for defense
bulwark
“Nestor cried out to the Greeks, bidding them fight like heroes, or else lose in the burning ships all hope of return to their native land.”
Rhetoric