The Iliad of Homer

by Richmond Lattimore

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  Stanley, K. The Shield of Homer: Narrative Structures in the Iliad. Princeton, 1993.

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  Visser, E. Homers Katalog der Schiffe. Stuttgart, 1997.

  Wilson, D. Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad. Cambridge, 2002.

  Zecchin de Fasano, Graciela C. “Memoria y funeral: Priamo y Aquiles en Iliada XXIV.472–551.” Synthesis 7 (2000): 57–68.

  OTHER WORKS MENTIONED IN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

  Bridges, R. Ibant Obscuri: An Experiment in the Classical Hexameter. Oxford, 1916.

  Cunliffe, R. J. A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect. London, 1924. Repr. Norman, OK, 1963.

  Cunningham, J. V. The Exclusions of a Rhyme: Poems and Epigrams. Denver, 1960.

  Rosaldo, R. “Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage.” In Violence in War and Peace, edited by N. Scheper-Hughes and P. Bourgois, 150–56. Malden, MA, 2004.

  Schmidt, C. E. Parallel-Homer: Oder, Index aller homerischen Iterati in lexikalischer Anordnung zusammengestellt. Göttingen, 1885. Repr. 1965.

  Shay, J. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. New York, 1994.

  Smith, W. B. and W. Miller. The Iliad of Homer: A Line for Line Translation in Dactylic Hexameters. New York, 1944.

  Glossary of Names

  It is a frequent, though not universal, practice to Latinize Greek names, then Anglicize the Latin forms, at least in pronunciation. I have generally avoided this practice, but have followed it on some occasions. Names ending in ees have been made to end in es; some names end (falsely) in an, as Danaän, Boiotian. Some endings in e have been changed to a, as Ida (not Ide), Hera (not Here). Other Anglo-Latin forms are: Apollo, Argives, Athens, Centaurs, Egypt, Hades, Helen, Hermes, Jason, Myrmidons, Priam, Rhodes, Thrace and Thracian, Titans, Trojans, Troy.

  This glossary is not meant to be a complete index, but gives at least one reference for each name in question (frequently there is only one) except in the case of major characters, for whom only a complete index would be useful. References are to book and line.

  Aban'tes: The people of Euboia, 2.536.

  Abar'bare: A nymph, 6.22.

  A'bas: Trojan killed by Diomedes, 5.148.

  A'bioi: Barbarians of the north, 13.6.

  Able'ros: Trojan killed by Antilochos, 6.33.

  Aby'dos: A city on the Hellespont, 2.836.

  Achai'a: Greece.

  Achai'ans: Greeks.

  Acheloi'os: (1) A river in west-central Greece, 21.194. (2) A river in Phrygia, 24.616.

  Achill'eus: Son of Peleus and Thetis, (Pelei'on, Pele'ides) leader of the Myrmidons, 1.7, etc.

  A'damas: Trojan killed by Meriones, 13.560 sqq.

  Adme'tos: King in Thessaly, husband of Alkestis, father of Eumelos, 2.713.

  Adrestei'a: City near Troy, 2.828.

  Adres'tos: (1) King of Sikyon, 2.572. (2) Warrior from Adresteia, 2.830; killed by Diomedes, 11.328 sqq. (3) Trojan killed by Agamemnon and Menelaos, 6.37 sqq. (4) Trojan killed by Patroklos, 16.693.

  Ag'akles: Father of Epeigeus, 16.571.

  Agame'de: Wife of Moulios, 11.740.

  Agamem'non: Son of Atreus (therefore sometimes called Atreides), brother of Menelaos, king of Mykenai and chief leader of the Achaians, 1.24, etc.

  Agape'nor: Leader of the Arkadians, 2.609.

  Agas'thenes: Of Elis, father of Polyxeinos, 2.624.

  Agas'trophos: Trojan killed by Diomedes, 11.338.

  Agathon: Son of Priam, 24.249.

  Agau'e: A Nereïd, 18.42.

  Agela'os: (1) Trojan killed by Diomedes, 8.257. (2) Achaian killed by Hektor, 11.302.

  Age'nor: Son of Antenor, one of the great captains and fighters of Troy. Fights Achilleus, 21.544 sqq.

  Aglai'a: Mother of Nireus, 2.672.

  A'grios: A prince of Kalydon, 14.116.

  Aia'kides: Meaning “descendent of Aiakos,” used of Achilleus.

  Ai'akos: Son of Zeus, father of Peleus, 21.189.

  Aian'tes: The two called Aias when spoken of together.

  Ai'as: (1) Son of Telamon, “Telamonian” Aias, of Salamis, 2.557, etc. (2) Son of Oïleus, of Lokris, 2.527-30, etc.

  Aïdo'neus: Another name for Hades.

  Ai'gai: City in Achaia, 8.203.

  Aigai'os: God of the sea, father of Briareos, 1.404.

  Ai'geus: Father of Theseus, 1.265.

  Aigialei'a: Wife of Diomedes, 5.412.

  Aigi'alos: City in Paphlagonia, 2.855.

  Ai'gilips: City or locality in the domain of Odysseus, 2.633.

  Aigi'na: Island in the domain of Argos, 2.562.

  Ai'gion: City in Achaia, 2.574.

  Ainei'as: Son of Anchises and Aphrodite, leader of the Dardanians, 2.820, etc.

  Ai'nios: Paionian killed by Achilleus, 21.210.

  Ai'nos: City in Thrace, 4.520.

  Ai'olos: Father of Sisyphos, 6.154.

  Aipei'a: Town in Pylos, 9.152.

  Ai'py: City near Pylos, 2.592.

  Ai'pytos: Hero of Arkadia, 2.604.

  Aise'pos: (1) River near Zeleia, 2.825. (2) Trojan killed by Euryalos, 6.21.

  Aisye'tes: (1) Hero buried in the Trojan plain, 2.793. (2) Father of Alkathoös, 13.427.

  Aisy'me: City in Thrace, 8.304.

  Aisym'nos: Achaian killed by Hektor, 11.303.

  Ai'the: Mare belonging to Agamemnon, 23.295.

  Aithi'kes: A people of Thessaly, 2.744.

  Ai'thon: One of Hektor’s horses, 8.185.

  Ai'thre: One of Helen’s handmaidens, 3.144.

  Aito'lians: People of Aitolia in western Greece, led by Thoas, 2.638-44, etc.

  A'kamas: (1) Son of Antenor and companion of Aineias, killed by Meriones, 16.342. (2) Thracian killed by Aias, 6.8.

  Akessa'menos: A Thracian chief, 21.143.

  Akri'sios: Father of Danaë, 14.319.

  Aktai'e: A Nereïd, 18.41.

  Ak'tor: (1) Father of Astyoche, 2.513. (2) Apparently, an ancestor of Kteatos and Eurytos, 2.621. (3) Father of Menoitios, so grandfather of Patroklos, 11.785. (4) Father of Echekles, 16.189.

  Alas'tor: (1) Follower of Nestor, 4.295. (2) Lykian, killed by Odysseus, 5.677. (3) Father of Tros (2), 20.463.

  Alege'nor: Father of Promachos, 14.504.

  Alei'os: A plain in Asia, 6.201.

  Alexan'dros: Another, and in the Iliad more usual, name for Paris, q.v.

  Alkan'dros: Lykian killed by Odysseus, 5.678.

  Alkath'oös: Brother-in-law of Aineias, killed by Idomeneus, 13.427-44.

  Alkes'tis: Wife of Admetos, mother of Eumelos, 2.715.

  Alkim'edon: A Myrmidon chief, 16.197.

  Al'kimos: Follower of Achilleus, 19.392.

  Alkma'on: Achaian killed by Sarpedon, 12.394.

  Alkme'ne: Mother of Herakles, 14.323.

  Alky'one: “Sea-bird,” a byname for Marpessa, 9.562.

  Alo'eus: Father of Ephialtes and Otos, 5.386.

  Al'ope: Town in the domain of Achilleus, 2.682.

  Al'os: Town in the domain of Achilleus, 2.682.

  Alphei'os: A river in the western Peloponnese, 2.592, etc.

  Al'tes: King of the Leleges, whose daughter, Laothoë, was one of Priam’s wives, 21.85.

  Althai'a: Mother of Meleagros, 9.555.

  Al'ybē: The city of the Halizones, on the south shore of the Black Sea, 2.857.

  Amaryng'keus: An Elean hero, father of Diores, 2.622.

  Amathei'a: A Nereïd, 18.48.

  A'mazons: A race of warrior women who invaded Asia Minor, 3.189, 6.186.

  Amiso'daros: A lord of Lykia, father of Atymnios and Maris, 16.328.

  Amopa'on: Trojan killed by T
eukros, 8.276.

  Amphi'damas: (1) A hero of Kythera, 10.268. (2) A hero of Opous, 23.87.

  Amphigenei'a: City near Pylos, 2.593.

  Amphi'klos: Trojan killed by Meges, 16.313.

  Amphi'machos: (1) A leader of the Epeians, killed by Hektor, 13.185. (2) A leader of the Karians, 2.870.

  Amphi'nomē: A Nereïd, 18.44.

  Amphi'on: A leader of the Epeians, 13.692.

  Amphi'os: (1) Trojan ally from Adresteia, son of Merops, 2.830; killed by Diomedes, 11.328. (2) Trojan ally, son of Selagos, killed by Aias, 5.612.

  Amphi'thoë: A Nereïd, 18.42.

  Amphi'tryon: Putative father of Herakles, 5.392.

  Ampho'teros: Trojan killed by Patroklos, 16.415.

  A'mydon: City of the Paionians, 2.849.

  Amy'klai: City near Sparta, 2.584.

  Amyn'tor: Father of Phoinix, 9.448.

  Anchi'alos: Achaian killed by Hektor, 5.609.

  Anchi'ses: Second cousin of Priam, lover of Aphrodite, father of Aineias, 5.268-73, 20.230-40.

  Andrai'mon: Father of Thoas, 2.638.

  Andro'machē: Daughter of Eëtion, wife of Hektor, 6.371.

  Anemorei'a: City in Phokis, 2.521.

  Angkai'os: (1) Father of Agapenor, 2.609. (2) Of Pleuron, a wrestler beaten by Nestor, 23.635.

  Antei'a: Wife of Proitos, who tempted Bellerophontes, 6.160.

  Ante'nor: An important counselor of Priam and the Trojans, father of numerous sons who figure in the Iliad, 3.148, 7.347, etc.

  Anthe'don: Town in Boiotia, 2.508.

  Anthei'a: Town near Pylos, 11.151.

  Anthe'mion: Father of Simoeisios, 4.473.

  Anti'lochos: Son of Nestor, close friend of Achilleus, a prominent warrior, 4.457, etc.

  Anti'machos: Father of Peisandros (1) and Hippolochos (2), and of Hippomachos, 11.123, 12.188.

  Anti'phates: Trojan killed by Leonteus, 12.192.

  Anti'phonos: Son of Priam, 24.250.

  An'tiphos: (1) A leader of the men from Kos and adjacent islands, 2.678. (2) A leader of the Maionians, 2.864. (3) Son of Priam, killed by Agamemnon, 11.101.

  An'tron: City in Thessaly, in the domain of Protesilaos, 2.697.

  Apai'sos: City in the Troad, 2.828.

  A'phareus: Achaian killed by Aineias, 13.541.

  Aphrodi'te: Daughter of Zeus and Dione, mother of Aineias, protectress of Helen, called also the Lady of Kypros, 3.374, etc.

  Apisa'on: (1) Trojan killed by Eurypylos, 11.578. (2) Trojan killed by Lykomedes, 17.348.

  Apollo: Son of Zeus and Leto, chief protector of the Trojans, 1.9, etc.

  Apseu'des: A Nereïd, 18.46.

  Araithyr'ea: City in the domain of Agamemnon, 2.571.

  Arche'lochos: Son of Antenor, killed by Aias, 14.463.

  Archepto'lemos: Charioteer of Hektor, killed by Teukros, 8.312.

  Areï'lykos: (1) Father of Prothoënor, 14.451. (2) Trojan killed by Patroklos, 16.308.

  Areï'thoös: (1) “The club-fighter,” father of Menesthios, killed by Lykourgos (2), 7.8, 7.137. (2) Trojan killed by Achilleus, 20.487.

  Are'ne: City near Pylos, 2.591.

  A'res: Son of Zeus and Hera, fights on the side of the Trojans, 5.30, etc.

  Areta'on: Trojan killed by Teukros, 6.31.

  Are'tos: Trojan killed by Automedon, 17.517.

  Ar'geas: Father of Polymelos, 16.417.

  Argeïphon'tes: A name given to Hermes.

  Argis'sa: City in Thessaly, in the domain of Polypoites, 2.738.

  Ar'gives: The same as Achaians.

  Ar'gos: (1) Place-name denoting sometimes a city (under the sway of Diomedes), sometimes a larger district in the northeast Peloponnese, and used also to mean simply “Greece.” (2) Pelasgian Argos, the domain of Achilleus.

  Ariad'ne: Daughter of Minos, 18.592.

  Ar'imoi: A people of Kilikia, 2.783.

  Ari'on: A famous racehorse, 23.346.

  Aris'bas: Father of Leiokritos, 17.345.

  Aris'be: City in the Troad, 2.836.

  Ar'ne: City in Boiotia, 2.507.

  Arsi'noös: Father of Hekamede, 11.626.

  Ar'temis: Sister of Apollo, 5.51, etc.

  Asai'os: Achaian killed by Hektor, 11.301.

  A'sinē: City near Argos, 2.560.

  A'sios: (1) Son of Hyrtakos, a Trojan ally, killed by Idomeneus, 13.389. (2) Brother of Hekabē and uncle of Hektor, 16.717.

  Aska'laphos: Son of Ares, a chief of Orchomenos, 2.511; killed by Deïphobos, 13.519.

  Aska'nia: City in Phrygia, 2.863.

  Aska'nios: Leader from Askania, 13.792.

  Askle'pios: The great healer, father of Machaon and Podaleirios, 2.731.

  Aso'pos: River in Boiotia, 4.383.

  Asple'don: City of the Minyai, near Orchomenos, 2.511.

  Assar'akos: Son of Tros, brother of Ilos, great-grandfather of Aineias, 20.232.

  Aster'ion: City in Thessaly, in the domain of Eurypylos, 2.735.

  Asteropai'os: Leader of the Paionians, one of the greatest of the Trojan allies, 12.102; killed by Achilleus, 21.140-83.

  Asty'alos: Trojan killed by Polypoites, 6.29.

  Asty'anax: Hektor’s infant son, 6.403.

  Asty'noös: (1) Trojan killed by Diomedes, 5.144. (2) A Trojan charioteer, 15.455.

  Asty'ochē: Mother, by Ares, of Askalaphos and Ialmenos, 2.513.

  Astyochei'a: Mother of Tlepolemos, 2.658.

  Asty'pylos: Paionian killed by Achilleus, 21.209.

  Athe'ne: or Pallas Athene, also called Tritogeneia, daughter of Zeus, protectress of the Achaians, particularly Achilleus, Diomedes, and Odysseus, 1.194, etc.

  Ath'ens: The city of Erechtheus, in east-central Greece, 2.546.

  Ath'os: Mountain and promontory in the northern Aegean, 14.229.

  Atrei'des: “Son of Atreus,” used of Agamemnon, less often of Menelaos.

  At'reus: Father of Agamemnon and Menelaos, 2.105.

  Atryto'ne: Epithet of Athene, 1.157.

  Atym'nios: (1) Father of Mydon, 5.581. (2) Trojan, brother of Maris, killed by Antilochos, 16.317.

  Augei'ai: (1) City in Lokris, 2.532. (2) City in Lakedaimon, 2.583.

  Augei'as: Lord of Elis, 11.701.

  Au'lis: A city at the narrows between Euboia and the mainland, where the ships of the Achaians assembled for the expedition to Troy, 2.303.

  Auto'lykos: Maternal grandfather of Odysseus, 10.266.

  Auto'medon: Follower and charioteer of Achilleus and Patroklos, a considerable warrior in his own right, 16.145, 17.429.

  Auto'noös: (1) Achaian killed by Hektor, 11.301. (2) Trojan killed by Patroklos, 16.694.

  Auto'phonos: Father of Polyphontes, 4.395.

  Ax'ios: A river, and river-god, in Paionia, 2.849.

  Ax'ylos: Trojan ally from Arisbe, killed by Diomedes, 6.12.

  A'zeus: Father, or ancestor, of Aktor (1), 2.513.

  Bal'ios: One of the immortal horses of Achilleus, 16.149.

  Bath'ykles: Myrmidon killed by Glaukos, 16.594.

  Bellerophon'tes: Hero from Korinth, killer of the Chimaira, grandfather of Sarpedon and Glaukos (now usually called Bellerophon), 6.155-202.

  Bes'sa: City in Lokris, 2.532.

  Bias: (1) Leader under Nestor, 4.296. (2) Athenian, leader under Menestheus, 13.691. (3) Father of Dardanos (2) and Laogonos (2), 20.461.

  Bie'nor: Trojan killed by Agamemnon, 11.92.

  Boag'rios: River in Lokris, 2.533.

  Boi'be: Thessalian city in the domain of Eumelos, 2.712.

  Boibe'is: The lake by which Boibe was situated, 2.711.

  Boio'tians: The people of Boiotia, in central Greece northwest of Attica, 2.494.

  Bor'eas: The north (more accurately northeast) wind, 9.4.

  Bo'ros: (1) Father of Phaistos, 5.44. (2) Husband of Polydore, 16.177.

  Boudei'on: Town in the territory of the Myrmidons, 16.572.

  Boukol'ion: Son of Laomedon, father of Aisepos (2) and Pedasos (1), 6.22.

  Bou'kolos: Father of Sphelos, grandfather of Iasos, 15.
338.

  Boupra'sion: City in Elis, 2.615.

  Briar'eos: A hundred-handed giant, 1.403.

  Brise'is: The captive mistress of Achilleus, 1.184; her life story, 19.282-300.

  Bri'seus: Father of Briseis, 1.392.

  Brysei'ai: City in Lakedaimon, 2.583.

  Cen'taurs: Creatures, part human and part beast, at home around Mount Pelion, 11.832.

  Chal'kis: (1) City in Euboia, 2.537. (2) City in Aitolia, 2.640. (3) Name of a bird, 14.291.

  Chalko'don: Father, or ancestor, of Elephenor, 2.541.

  Charis: Goddess, wife of Hephaistos, 18.382-93.

  Char'opos: Father of Nireus, 2.672.

  Charops: Trojan killed by Odysseus, 11.427.

  Chei'ron: “Most righteous of the Centaurs,” friend and teacher of Asklepios, 4.219; of Achilleus, 11.832; of Peleus, 16.143.

  Chersi'damas: Trojan killed by Odysseus, 11.423.

  Chimai'ra: Lykian monster killed by Bellerophontes, 6.179.

  Chro'mios: (1) Follower (in the Odyssey, 11.286, brother) of Nestor, 4.295. (2) Son of Priam killed by Diomedes, 5.160. (3) Lykian killed by Odysseus, 5.677. (4) Trojan killed by Teukros, 8.275. (5) A Trojan captain, 17.218.

  Chromis: Leader of the Mysians, killed by Achilleus, 2.858.

  Chry'se: Town near Troy, the home of Chryses, 1.37.

  Chryse'is: Daughter of Chryses, captive mistress of Agamemnon, released by him to her father (later Criseyde, Cressida), 1.111, etc.

  Chryses: Priest of Apollo, father of Chryseis, 1.11.

  Chryso'themis: Daughter of Agamemnon, 9.145.

  Dai'dalos: Builder in Krete, 18.592.

  Dai'tor: Trojan killed by Teukros, 8.275.

  Dam'asos: Trojan killed by Polypoites, 12.183.

  Damas'tor: Father of Tlepolemos (2), 16.416.

  Dan'aäns: Achaians, Argives.

  Dan'aë: Mother, by Zeus, of Perseus, 14.319.

  Dardan'ia: The domain of Dardanos, 20.216.

  Dardanian, Dardanians: Of Dardania, or descended from, or pertaining to, Dardanos. Used of the group of Trojans whose lord was Aineias, 2.819.

  Dar'danos: (1) Son of Zeus, father of Erichthonios, ancestor of the Trojan kings, 20.215. (2) Son of Bias, killed by Achilleus, 20.460.

  Dar'es: Priest of Hephaistos in Troy, father of Phegeus and Idaios (2), 5.9.

  Dau'lis: City near Pytho, 2.520.

  Deï'koön: Companion of Aineias, killed by Agamemnon, 5.534.

  Deï'ochos: Achaian killed by Paris, 15.341.

  Deïopi'tes: Trojan killed by Odysseus, 11.420.