Becoming Achilles : child-sacrifice, war, and misrule in the Iliad and beyond (2012) (edit title/settings)

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• Achilles: Leading Greek hero the Trojan War. He was killed in the last days of the siege of Troy by an arrow wound in his only vulnerable spot, his heel. Hence the expression ‘Achilles heel’ for a point of vulnerability in a person or plan.
• Agamemnon: The son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus. When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was abducted by Paris of Troy, Agamemnon commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War.
• Klytemnestra: The wife of Agamemnon, king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Mycenae or Argos. She was a femme fatale who murdered her husband, Agamemnon and the Trojan princess Cassandra, whom he had taken as war prize following the sack of Troy.
• Iphigenia: Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Sacrificed by her father to the goddess Artemis.
• Orestes: Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
• Helen of Troy: Queen of Sparta and wife of Menelaus. The most beautiful woman in the world and cause of the Trojan War.
• Paris: Trojan prince, brother of Hector. His stealing of Helen precipitated the Trojan War.
• Hektor: Trojan prince and the greatest fighter for Troy in the Trojan War.
• Diomedes: Greek hero of the Trojan War. King of Argos, he is regarded alongside Ajax as one of the best warriors of all the Greek warriors.
• Priam: King of Troy. Husband of Hecuba and father of Hector, Paris and Cassandra
• Thetis: Add a description of this character.
• Zeus: In Greek mythology, Zeus is the "Father of Gods and men" who rules the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father rules the family. He is the god of sky and thunder.
• Demeter: In Greek mythology, Demeter is the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains and the fertility of the earth. Her cult titles include Sito as the giver of food or corn/grain and Thesmophoros as a mark of the civilized existence of agricultural society.
• Apollo: In Greek mythology, Apollo is the god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis.
• Leto: In Greek mythology, Leto is the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe. By Zeus, she is the mother of the twins Apollo and Artemis.
• Penelope: Faithful wife of Odysseus who kept her suitors at bay until her husband returned.
• Peleus
• Menelaos
• Patroklos
• Socrates
• Nestor
• Persephone
• Skamander
• Crito
• Hephaistos: In Greek mythology, the Greek god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes. His Roman equivalent was Vulcan. In Greek mythology, he was the son of Zeus and Hera, the King and Queen of the Gods.
• Diotima
• Psamathe
• Phokos
• Laomedon
• Aiakos
• Briseis
• Chryseis
• Tyndareus
• Herakles
• Kalchas
• Lykaon
• Anytus
• Sthenelos
• Meno

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Troy: Ancient and mythical city/state located on the northwest coast of present day Turkey. It is best known for being the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek mythology and especially in the Iliad.
• Athens
• Hades
• Aigisthos
• Amyntor

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Richard Holway (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PA4037 .H7725 2012
• Dewey: 883.01

Subjects edit see section history

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