TROJANS House of Troy
ELECTRA (PLEIAD) Daughter of Atlas|Raped by Zeus|Referred to as the lost Pleiad, disappearing in grief after the destruction 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 LAOMEDON LEUCIPPE 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
ILUS EURYDICE Ilus was instructed by an oracle to build the city of Troy
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 consistent among accounts
AEGINA Nymph of the island that bears her name|daughter of the river-god Asopus
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.
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
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
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
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.
THYESTES In revenge, Atreus serves Thyestes his own sons for dinner
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.
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
NIOBE Niobe’s fourteen children were slain before her eyes
PELOPIA + THYESTES Thyestes committed incest with his daughter, Pelopia, and impregnated her; she gave birth to Aegisthus and abandoned him.
AEGISTHUS Clytemnestra’s lover| Helped kill Agamemnon ELECTRA Helps Orestes kill Clytemnestra|Goes mad and tries to kill her sister
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).
