The Armour of Achilles

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by Glyn Iliffe


  Pylos

  – city on the western seaboard of the Peloponnese

  Pythoness

  – high priestess of the Pythian oracle

  R

  Rhesus

  – king of the Thracians, allies of Troy

  S

  Samos

  – neighbouring island to Ithaca, also under the rule of Odysseus

  Sarpedon

  – king of the Lycians, allies of Troy

  Scamander

  – river on the Trojan plain

  Sthenelaus

  – companion of Diomedes

  T

  Talthybius

  – squire to Agamemnon

  Taphians

  – pirate race from Taphos

  Tecmessa

  – wife of Great Ajax

  Telemachus

  – son of Odysseus and Penelope

  Tenedos

  – island off the coast of Ilium

  Teucer

  – famed archer, half-brother and companion to Great Ajax

  Thebe

  – city in Ilium

  Thebes

  – city in central Greece

  Thersites

  – Aetolian hunchback

  Thetis

  – chief of the Nereids and mother of Achilles

  Tlepolemos

  – king of Rhodes

  Troy

  – chief city of Ilium, on the eastern seaboard of the Aegean

  X

  Xanthus

  – famed horse of Achilles, sibling of Balius

  xenia

  – the custom of friendship towards strangers

  Z

  Zeus

  – king of the gods

  First published 2010 by Macmillan

  This electronic edition published 2011 by Pan Books

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