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GREEKS (a.k.a. Achaeans, Argives, Danaans, Myrmidons). Achilles, son of Pelius: his love-grief for Patroclus finally gets him
back into the war. Agamemnon (Atrides is patronymic = son of Atreus): brother of
Menelaus. Menelaus (another Atrides): wife Helen stolen by Paris. Diomedes (Tydides = son of Tydeus: one of many who made pact with
Menelaus. Ajax (Aias) the Great and Little Ajax (the Weenie). Odysseus: did not want to come along. Nestor: of the older generation, so he's got authority in
meetings. Idomeneus. Calchas. Patroclus: Achilles' very special friend. TROJANS (a.k.a. Dardanians, Lycians). Hector: brother of Paris. Paris: defending his affair with Helen. Priam: king of Troy and father of 50 sons and a batch of
daughters. Hecuba: queen of Troy and mother of lots of those kids. Andromache: Hector’s wife. Aeneas: will be preserved in order to found Rome. Astyanax. Dolon: a would-be spy. Glaucus. Helenus. Cassandra: prophetess and sister in the royal family. Pandarus. Polydamas. Sarpedon. GODS WITH THE GREEKS Hera: slighted by the judgment of Paris. Athena: slighted by the judgment of Paris. Thetis: mother of Achilles. Hermes: mildly. Poseidon: has his old grudge about being stiffed after helping build
the walls of Troy. GODS WITH THE TROJANS Zeus: for a while anyway, although officially neutral; one tradition
says he needed to reduce the earth’s population. Hera: for a while, to make a point for Achilles (82). Apollo: Agamemnon insulted his priest Chryses. Aphrodite: mother of Aeneas and awarded the prize in the judgment of
Paris. Ares: despite an earlier promise to Hera and Athena. Artemis. Xanthos: son of Zeus, a river god, fights Achilles who is polluting
him with corpses; is defeated by Hephaestos’ fire.