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| 11 of his 12 ships were sank by Laestrygonians, last one sank by zeuss |
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| Father of Arteus and Thyestes |
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| Fell in love with a married Hippodamia |
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| Mother of atreus and Thyestes |
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| a beautiful goddess that fell in lust with Odysseus, offered him eternal life and youth |
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| acquitted of his trial grand jury style by athena, |
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| allowed patroclus to wear his armor but warned him to stay away fom hector, sad when best friend died |
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| allows his son Sarpedon to die to avoid conflict with other gods |
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| also sent to tartarus to push rock up hill for all e eternity |
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| asks his mother for new armor to go into battle again, kills hector and drags his body around the walls and takes it back home, eventually gives body back because of guilt trip and is later killed by paris |
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| baptized achilles in river styx |
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| baptized in the rive styx but was held by heel-his only weakness |
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| beautiful goddess fated by zeus to marry peleus |
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| begs hector to come inside walls of troy before achilles gets him |
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| bird like women who sing beautifully |
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| bribed King's chariot driver, Myrtilus, to rig the race so he could have his bride |
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| brought back to life by the gods after his father's attempt at trickery |
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| came up with the idea to make trojans withdraw, he'd wear achilles' armor into war |
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| came up with trojan horse idea |
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| choice of two fates, short and glorious of long and boring life |
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| chopped his son into bite sized pieces to try to fool the gods |
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| chopped into bite size pieces by dad and fed to the gods |
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| chops up husband with anaxe in the hot bath |
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| chose aphrodite as most beautiful goddess and thus invoked the wrath of thena and hera |
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| committed suicide on his own sword |
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| contendor for the armor of achilles that could not speak well |
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| convinces achilles to let him give hector proper burial |
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| does not get an invitiation to Peleus and Thetis' wedding so she throws a golden apple into the wedding feast with a note attached saying it is for the most beautiful |
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| driver of king's chariot who put a wax pin in place of lnch pin to rig race |
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| exiled but is allowed by the gods to have his throne back |
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| exposed herself to make hector come back into the walls of troy |
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| fates Thetis to marry Peleus |
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| father of agamemnon and menelaus |
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| father of hector and paris |
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| father of helen, clytemnestra and sarpedon(son) |
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| founded rome and the romans |
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| from ithaca, was gone 30 years, took ten years to get back from ttroy |
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| gave odysseus pig poison cure |
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| giant whirlpool that would pull ships down and sink them |
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| given the gift of prophecy by apollo but cursed so that no one would believe her |
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| given to Odysseus as a slave to carry home |
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| god of the winds, gave odysseus wind bag to help him but would not help twice |
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| got too excited and ran into hector and was killed |
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| got zeus to make the greeks lose until agamemnon apologized |
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| greatest warrior in the lands |
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| had a dream that she gave birth to a torch that burned the city down, which meant that one of her kids would be the end of the city |
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| had to choose between scylla and charybdis, charybdis would kill all his men, scylla only 6 so he chose scylla |
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| had to drag men away from the lotus tree fruit |
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| had to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia in place of a deer to satisfy artemis |
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| his son was thrown off a cliff and killed and his wife was taken as a slave to the greeks |
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| his story is called the aeneid |
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| home town of odysseus and penelope |
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| human that partied with the gods |
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| invited back after exile for a feast in his honor, is fed his sons dipped in their own blood |
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| invites brother back to share in kingly duties after exile but feeds his brother's own kids to him, dipped in their blood |
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| is allowed proper burial and then a contest started to give away his armor |
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| is asked who is the most beautiful out of Hera, Aphrodites and Athena but goes to the prince of troy to settle it |
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| isle of phaeacia was his last stop before returning to ithaca |
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| killed unceremoniously at the alter by the greeks |
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| leader of the greeks who caused a plaque on the greek army by stealing a priest's daughter in the battle of troy |
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| lives with clytemnestra while agamemnon is fighting in troy |
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| married helen and survived the war to bring her home...they lived happily |
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| married to agamemnon but plots with Aegisthus to kill him |
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| married to menelaus but aphrodite made her fall in love with paris whom she ran away with |
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| mother of achilles, to avoid him having to fight she dressed him as a gil on an obscure island...the solddiers did man trials and found him out though |
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| mother of iphigenia and orestees |
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| murdered by her son orestes |
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| name means goat strength, so of thyestes and his daughter |
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| one of her hands told on her so she had to host a contest to find a proper suitor, held contest of axes |
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| only one to survive his journey |
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| originally has golden fleece so is set to become king of the kingdom |
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| plugs his men's ears with wax when they neared the sirens and had them tie him to the mast, that way he could hear the songs but wouldn't be allowed to go to them |
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| pretended to be crazy to avoid fighting in troy but steered around his kid proving that he was not crazy |
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| princess on isle of Phaeacia, discovered odysseus and took him to get clean clothes |
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| princess who marries Pelops |
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| prophet in the underworld who gave odysseus advice about his journey |
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| raped by zeus in form of a swan, mother of helen and clytemnestra |
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| rapes leda while in the form of a duck |
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| received a bag of wind from Aeolus that would lead them straight to ithaca, the men figured must be something important in the bag, maybe gold, and opened it so they were blown away from ithaca's shores |
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| received achilles armor after he died |
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| recovered the body of achilles for the greeks |
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| returned to his palace as a beggar and won the contest of axes, then killed all 100 of his wife's potential suitors, he was saved from the townspeople by athena |
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| second best warrior greek warrior |
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| second most famous witch, turned odysseus's men into pigs |
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| seduced odysseus for a year |
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| sent into exile because Zeus exposed his adultery |
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| sent to marry achilles but was sacrificed as was planned |
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| sent to tartarus where he would be forever hungry and thirsty, wind blew fruit on trees out of range and water receeded when he neared |
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| ship was attacked by town that thought they were pirates, they raided the town but he saved the priest's place and family so priest gave him 12 big jars of wine |
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| sleeps with his daughter to have a son, Aegisthus |
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| slept with calypso and refused eternal life and youth from her, stayed with her for 7 years all the while praying to zeus for her to free him, so zeus got him a raft and poseidon wrecked it |
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| slept with his brother's wife to get golden fleece to be crowned ruler of kingdom |
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| son of Pelops and Hippodamia brother of A |
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| son of Pelops and brother of T |
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son of Priam and Hecuba
greatest warrior in troy |
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| son of Priam and Hecuba, they tried to get rid of him by exposure but he was found by a bear and kept alive |
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| son of agamemnon and clytemnestra |
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| son of peleus and thetis (goddess) |
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| son of zeus who died in combat as was his fate |
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| suffered no consequence from the war she started |
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| the sole survivor of troy |
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| thrown off cliff for trying to sleep with Hippodamia |
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| throws Myrtilus off a cliff |
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| told hector to throw his spear at achilles |
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| took agamemnon as a slave and warned him not to go into his place |
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| trapped by polyphemus, cyclops, so he got him drunk with the wine from the priest, told cyclops his name was Uttis (nobody) when cyclops was waking up, he and his men stuck a big woodejn stake in his eye and proceeded to sneak out under the belly of the sheep...one mistake...told his real name to cyclops as he left, cyclops was poseidon's son |
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| tried to cheat death by asking his wife not to do proper burial rites and convincing Hades to let him go talk to her |
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| twin sister of clytemnestra, most beautiful woman |
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| wanted to make love to thetis but her son's fate was to be greater than his father |
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| was going to behead agamemnon but athena told him not to, so he asked his mom to make the greeks pay |
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| was out of town when his father was murdered but oracle told him to avenge his father, kills his mother and her lover |
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| was seduced by circe for a year before deciding it was time to get home, but before that he has to go to underworld and seek Tiresias to learn details to help him get home |
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| would not retreat from achilles and was killed |
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| wove a funeral robe to avoid remarriage but secretly unraveled it at night |
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| wrote a play detailing the females called trojan women |
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