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Other: best fighter after Achilles 2.768, 7.289, 13.321, 17.279; confidence in battle 7.197; described by Helen 3.229; duel with Hector 7.244; exchanges gifts with Hector 7.305; fight in armour 23.811; has prize threatened 1.138, 145; praised by Agamemnon 4.285; shield 7.219, 11.485, 527; speech to Achilles 9.624; throwing the weight 23.838; volunteers to challenge Hector 7.164; wins lottery to take on Hector 7.190; wrestling 23.709.
Andromache
family destroyed by Achilles 6.413, 22.478; fear of widowhood 6.408, 22.484, 24.725; fed horses before Hector 8.186; laments Hector 6.500, 22.477, 24.725; marriage 6.398, 22.471; need for Hector 6.413; pessimism 6.501, 22.454, 508, 731; possessed 6.389, 22.460; tactical advice 6.433; with baby and Hector 6.394, 22.484.
Antilochus
dispute with Menelaus 23.402, 570; foot-race 23.756; helps Menelaus 5.565; horse-race 23.301; kills his man 4.457, 5.580, 6.32, 13.396, 547, 14.513, 15.576, 16.317; protected by POSEIDON 13.554; runs from Hector 15.589; tells Achilles of Patroclus’ death 17.698, 18.2.
APHRODITE
beaten up by ATHENE 21.424; chosen by judgement of Paris 24.30; magic strap 14.216; mother sympathizes with 5.382; preserves Hector’s body 23.185; saves Aeneas 5.312; saves Paris 3.374, 4.11; threatens Helen 3.414; traditional work 5.422, 428; wounded by Diomedes 5.335.
APOLLO
And Greeks: attacks Patroclus 16.791, 18.455; disables Diomedes in horse-race 23.383; kicks down Greek defences 15.361; receives sacrifice 1.315, 458; relieves Greek plague 1.457; sends plague on Greeks 1.50, 380; starts quarrel 1.8-9; tricks Achilles 21.600; warns off Diomedes 5.440; warns Patroclus 16.707; will destroy Greek wall 12.17.
And Trojans: abandons Hector 22.213, 299; agrees a truce with ATHENE 7.29; alerts Thracians to slaughter 10.515; inspires Hector 15.254, 17.75, Aeneas 17.323, 20.83; makes image of Aeneas 5.449; preserves Hector’s body 23.188, 24.18; rallies Trojans 4.509; refuses to fight POSEIDON 21.461; reviled by ARTEMIS 21.471; saves Aeneas 5.344; saves Agenor 21.597; warns off Hector 20.376; saves/protects Hector 15.256, 20.443.
ARES
attacked by ATHENE 15.128, 21.406; crazy 5.831; death of his son in battle 13.521; endures suffering 5.385; hated by ZEUS 5.889; healed 5.900; helps APHRODITE 5.363; kills humans 5.842; led out of battle by ATHENE 5.31; loves war 5.891; urges on Trojans 4.439, 5.461, 507; wants revenge for death of son 15.116; wounded by ATHENE-Diomedes
Asius
fails in attack on wall 12.110; killed 13.392; troops 2.835.
Astyanax
cries 6.468; future 6.478, 22.484, 24.732; name 6.403, 22.506-7.
ATHENE
Achilles: appears to Achilles 1.197; feeds Achilles 19.352; glorifies Achilles 18.203; promises Achilles compensation 1.213; speeds Hector’s death 15.614; stands by Achilles 20.95, 21.284, 22.214.
As Greek ally: 8.36; helps Diomedes distinguish men from gods 5.128; helps Diomedes stab ARES 5.826; helps Odysseus and Diomedes 10.275, 279, 290, 482, 507; helps Tydeus 4.390, Nestor 7.154, 11.724, Odysseus 11.438; inspires Diomedes 5.1, 121, 406 and in horse-race 23.388, 399, Menelaus 17.556, Odysseus in foot-race 23.771, 782; intervenes to prevent Greek flight 2.166; joins HERA to help Greeks 5.719, 8.358; marshals troops 2.446; protects Menelaus 4.128; rallies/helps Greeks4.514, 5.511; scatters clouds 15.668.
Other gods: agrees a truce with APOLLO 7.34; beats up APHRODITE 21.424; binding ZEUS 1.400; blames ZEUS for Greek defeats 8.360; disobedient to ZEUS 5.875; jokes about APHRODITE 5.421; leads ARES out of battle 5.31; schemes with HERA 4.20, 8.458; trounces ARES 5.766, 21.403.
Other: arms 7.733; breaks oath 4.73; hates Trojans 4.21, 7.32, 8.449, 20.313, 21.428, 24.25; helps Heracles 8.366; reviles Diomedes 5.800; shrine in Athens 2.547; tricks Hector 22.223; Trojans offer robe to 6.86, 269, 286.
BLIND FOLLY: see DELUSION.
Booty
allotted by Greeks 1.162, 166, 299, 368, 392, 2.226; already divided up 1.125.
Briseis demanded by Agamemnon 1.184; goes unwillingly to Agamemnon 1.348; how won by Achilles 2.689, 19.291; laments Patroclus 19.287; taken 1.346, 392.
Calchas, Greek priest
1.68-72; explains plague 1.93, 384; fears Agamemnon 1.78; his prophecy at start of expedition 2.300; POSEIDON takes his form 13.45.
Catalogue of Greek Contingents
2.494.
Catalogue of Trojan Contingents
2.816.
Chryseis, daughter of Chryses
Agamemnon will not release her 1.29; sent back 1.310, 389, 446.
Chryses
prays away the plague 1.451; prays for revenge 1.42; supplicates Greeks 1.15, 374.
Deiphobus
ATHENE disguises herself as 22.227; fights Meriones 13.156; kills his man 13.411, 518; wounded by Meriones 13.529.
DELUSION
19.91, 126, 24.480; of Agastrophus 11.340; of Agamemnon 1.412, 2.111, 8.237 (by ZEUS, cf. 9.18, 19.137) , 9-”5> “9, 19.88, 136, 270; of Oeneus 9.537; of Paris 6.356, 24.28; of Patroclus 16.805; of ZEUS 19.95, 113.
Diomedes
Battlefield: challenges Glaucus 6.123; cheated of Aeneas 5.314; exchanges armour with Glaucus 6.235; heroic feat of arms Books 5–6; horses of Tros 5.261, 321; kills Dolon 10.455; kills his man 5.19, 144, 151, 155, 159, 6.17, 8.120, 256, 11. 320, 334, 338, 368; kills Pandarus 5.290; leads rally 8.253, 11.317; nearly kills Hector 11.349; retreats before Hector 5.601; retreats, mocked by Hector 8.145; saves Nestor 8.91; slaughters sleeping Thracians and Rhesus 10.483; storms weak points of Ilium 6.435; takes on gods 5.362, 457, but contrast 5.606, 822, 6.129; troops 2.559; warned off by APOLLO 5.440; with ATHENE wounds ARES 5.856; wounded by Pandarus 5.98, 281, 795; wounded by Paris 11.376; wounds APHRODITE5.335.
Other: boar’s tusk helmet 10.261; corrects Sthenelus 4.412; criticizes Agamemnon 9.32; defends himself against ATHENE 5.815; embassy to Achilles pointless 9.698; fight in armour 23.812; honour 5.252; insulted by Agamemnon 4.370, 9.34; must realize human limits 5.406, 440, 8.146, 169, 11.318; parentage 14.113; praised by Nestor 8.152; prays to ATHENE 5.115, 10.284; rejects Paris’ compromise 7.400; selects Odysseus for night attack on the Trojans 10.243; volunteers to challenge Hector 7.163; wins horse-race 23.290, 399, 499.
Dolon
caught 10.374; killed 10.455; volunteers for spying mission 10.314.
Eëtion
1.366; father of Andromache 6.395, 22.480; horse 16.153; killed by Achilles 6.416 cf. 9.188, 23.827.
Entreaty: see Supplication.
Glaucus
advances with Sarpedon 12.330; exchanges armour 6.234; healed by APOLLO 16.528; heroic duty 6.208; kills his man 7.14, 16.594; reviles Hector 16.538, 17.142; tells his story to Diomedes 6.119; wounded by Teucer 12.389.
Gods
at loggerheads with ZEUS 11.78, 12.179; can change mind 9.497; dissent over mortals 1.574, 5.384, 873, 21.379; drink/feast 1.601, 4.3; fight each other 21.385; gifts to men 3.64; how the world divided up between them 15.187; laugh at HEPHAESTUS 1.599; no care for men 24.526 (cf. 16.446 -care for their sons); pity Hector 24.23, 423; prepare to fight each other 20.31; responsible for war 3.164; sleep 1.606; stand to greet ZEUS 1.533; steer clear of the fighting 11.75, 12.179, 13.524; watch Greek wall being built 7.444; watch Troy 4.4, 22.166; withdraw from fighting each other 20.136.
Greek army
admires Diomedes 7.403; applauds Odysseus 2.272; approves Chryses’ offer 1.22; assembles for action 2.442; boastful 8.229, 13.219; builds defensive wall 7.433; buries their dead 7.421; defends each other 3.9, 17.267, 365; feels shame 15.657; gets in supplies 7.467; low morale 13.88; makes for home 2.142; mutilates Hector 22.371; prays for Ajax, Diomedes or Agamemnon to face Hector 7.179; retreats 8.78; routed 8.336, 15.326; past sacrifices 8.203, 238; silent into action 3.8, 4.429; wants peace 3.111, 323; will capture Ilium 15.70.
Guest-friendship
3.354, 6.215, 11.20, 13.625, 661.
Hecabe
hatred of Achilles 24.212; laments Hector 22.431, 24.748; offers wine to Hector6.254; supplicates Hector 22.83.
Hector
Battle
field: attacks Ajax 14.402; balked by the wall 12.50; confident of victory 8.530, 9.237, 10.46, 12.236, 13.825, 15.468, 725, 18.293; cremated 24.787; kills his man 5.608, 705, 7.11, 11.301, 13.186, 15.329, 430, 515, 638, 16.577, 17.309, 619; kills Patroclus 16.828; knocked out by Ajax 14.418; leads/rallies Trojans 2.807, 5.496, 590, 6.104, 11.57, 285, 12.88, 13.136, 802, 14.388, 15.306, 500, 17.234, 262, 20.373; makes Greeks retreat 5.699; nearly killed by Diomedes 11.355; no tactician 13.726; realizes folly 22.104; rejects omens 12.237; retreats 16.367, 656; retreats from Ajax 13.193; routs Greeks 8.341, 12.467; saved by APOLLO 20.443; skill in warfare 7.237, 13.727; smashes gate in Greek wall 12.445; threatens Ajax 13.824; troops 2.816; warned off by APOLLO 20.376.
Death: body preserved 23.185, 24.19, 414, 757; death foretold 15.68, 612, 16.800, 852, 17.201, 21.296; dies 22.361; makes burial conditions 7.76, 22.254.
Greeks: dons Achilles’ armour 17.194; duel with Ajax 7.244; exchanges gifts with Ajax 7.303; foresees Achilles’ death 22.358; wants to behead Patroclus’ body 17.126, 18.176.
Other: bravery 22.457, 24.214, 385; desires fame 7.91; duty and heroism 6.441, 22.129; kindly to Helen 24.772; mocks the Greek wall 8.177; sacrifices to ZEUS/gods 22.170, 24.33, 69, 427; sense of destiny 6.487; supported by ZEUS 11.163, 200, 12.174, 252, 437; trusts will of ZEUS, not omens 12.241 cf. 15.494.
Trojans: blames Trojan elders 15.721; reviled by Sarpedon 5.472, by Polydamas 12.210, 13.726, by Glaucus 16.538, 17.142; reviles Paris 3.39, 6.280, 325 (mildly) , 6.521, 13.769; threatens Trojans with death 12.250, 15.349; with Andromache 6.394; with Hecabe 6.264; with Helen and Paris 6.313.
Helen
desire for Menelaus 3.139; Hector treats kindly 6.360, 24.767; identifies Greeks 3.178; kindness of Priam 3.172, 24.770; laments Hector 24.762; rejects APHRODITE 3.399; reviles Paris 3.428, 6.350; scourge of Troy 3.50, 160; self-reproach 3.173, 180, 242, 404, 6.344, 356, 24.764; sleeps with Paris 3.447; Trojans compliment 3.156, cf. 24.775; will not sleep with Paris 3.410.
HEPHAESTUS
dries up River 21.342; forge 18.372, 468; made gods’ homes 1.608; makes shield for Achilles 18.468; saves Idaeus 5.23; serves wine 1.598; tells HERA to yield to ZEUS 1.577; thrown out of Olympus by ZEUS 1.591.
HERA
And ZEUS: afraid to contradict ZEUS 8.430; attacks ZEUS 1.540; authority against ZEUS 4.58, 18.364; binding ZEUS 1.400; decides to deceive ZEUS into love-making 14.161; lies to ZEUS 15.36, 19.97; seduces ZEUS 14.292; yields to ZEUS 1.569, 8.462, 15.45, 104.
And other gods: beats up ARTEMIS 21.481; cannot persuade POSEIDON to act 8.201; tells ATHENE to intervene 1.195, 2.156, 4.64; wants to attack A RE S 5.765.
Greeks and Trojans: cares for Greeks 1.55, 196; encourages Agamemnon 8.218; hatred for Trojans 4.31, 51, 8.449, 18.367, 20.313, 24.25; helps Greeks 5.718, 787, 8.352, 467, 14.160; saves Achilles from River 21.331; toil to gather Greek army 4.27.
Heracles
5.392, 638, 15.640, 18.117, 20.145; helped by ATHENE 8.362; hindered by HERA 14.250, ^-^ 19.98.
HERMES
escorts Priam to Achilles 24.339; refuses to fight LETO 21.498.
Heroic priorities
1.152, 9.443 (Achilles) , 15.561 (Ajax) , 5.252, 8.147 (Diomedes) , 6.208 (Glaucus), 6.441, 476, 15.494 (Hector), 13.262 (Idomeneus) , 11.408 (Odysseus) , 5.479 (Sarpedon).
Horses
prophesy Achilles’ death 19.408; sense disaster 18.224; weep for Patroclus 17.426, 23.280.
Idomeneus
alerts Nestor 11.510; collects armour 13.260; describes the coward 13.276; old 13.361, 485; discussion with Meriones 13.249; dispute with Locrian Ajax over horse-race 23.450; fights Aeneas 13.500; has prize threatened 1.145; kill his man .43, 13.363, 387, 442, 506, 16.345; mentioned by Helen 3.230; parentage 13.450; praised by Agamemnon 4.257; retreats 8.78; roused to feat of arms by POSEIDON 13.219; slow in battle 13.512; storms weak points of Ilium 6.435; troops 2.645; volunteers to challenge Hector 7.165.
Ilium
loved by ZEUS 4.46; pays for allies 17.225, 18.290; wealth 9.401, 18.289, 22.50, 24.546; will be destroyed 2.331, 4.164, 5.716, 6.447, 12.15, 15.71, 20.316, 21.375, cf. 22.411.
IRIS
alerts Achilles 18.170, ATHENE and HERA 8.409, Hector 11.186, Helen 3.121, POSEIDON 15.173, Priam 24.170, THETIS 24.87, Trojans 2.786, winds 23.201; helps APHRODITE 5.353.
Laomedon
horses 5.269, 640, 23.348; parentage/family 6.23, 20.236; walls of Ilium 7.453, 8.519, 21.441.
LITAE
9.502; see also Supplication.
Machaon
called to see Menelaus 4.193; saved by Nestor 11.517; wounded 11.505.
Meleager
story of (boar and gifts) 9.529.
Menelaus
Battlefield: helped by Antilochus 5.570; helps Odysseus 11.463; wounds Helenus 13.595; kills his man 5.50, 576, 13.615, 14.516, 15.543, 16.311, 17.50; lifts Patroclus’ body 17.717; nearly spares Adrestus 6.51; poor fighter 17.26, 587; prevented from challenging Hector 7.109; protects dead Patroclus 17.1; recovers Patroclus’ body 17.581; storms weak points of Ilium 6.435; troops 2.581.
Other: blames Trojans 13.620; compared as speaker with Odysseus 3.206; dispute with Antilochus 23.402, 570; duel with Paris 3.346; feared for by Agamemnon 7.109, 10.240; forgiving of youth 23.602; horse-race 23.293; nearly killed on embassy to Ilium 11.139; too relaxed 10.121; understands Agamemnon 2.409; wants to punish Paris 2.589, 3.28, 351, 366.
Meriones
archery 23.860; bravery admired 13.287; corrected by Patroclus 16.627; discussion with Idomeneus 13.249; does not wound Deiphobus 13.161; gives Odysseus special helmet 10.260; horse-race 23.351; kills his man 5.59, 13.567, 650, 14.514, 16.343, 603; lifts Patroclus’ body 17.717; reviles Aeneas 16.620; volunteers to challenge Hector 7.166; wounds Deiphobus 13.529.
Mortals
death fixed 6.488, 7.52, 20.127, cf. 22.13, 23.79, 24.210; gods fight over 1.574, 4.26, 5.384, 873, 21.360, 463; gods careless of 4.40, 24.525; life a mixture of good and evil 24.527; miserable 17.446; power compared with gods’ 5.406, 440, 21.264; power of supplication 9.501; take on gods 5.362, 380, 457, 6.141; transient 6.146.
MUSE
1.1; 2.484, 761; 11.218; cf. 12.176; 14.508; 16.112.
Nestor
Advice: Antilochus in horse-race 23.306; Greeks to take no prisoners 6.66; night attack on Trojans 10.204; Patroclus return to battle in Achilles’ armour 11.790; reconciling Achilles 9.111; retreat 8.140; truce to retrieve bodies and build defensive wall 7.327; attempts to reconcile Agamemnon and Achilles 1.275; calls to battle 2.434; suggests tactics 2.362, 4.303, 14.62.
Other: age 1.250, 4.315, 8.103, 10.79, 23.623; criticizes Diomedes 9.53, Menelaus 10.114; given prize 23.624; organizes lottery 7.170; praised by Agamemnon 2.371, 4.313; rebukes and rallies Greeks 2.337, 7.124, 15.661; recruits for the Trojan War 11.767; saved by Diomedes 8.91; selects embassy 9.167; tales – service with Lapiths 1.262, kills Ereuthalion 4.319, 7.132, success against Eleans 11.671, prowess in games 23.630; troops 2.591.
Odysseus
ATHENE: advised by ATHENE 2.173, 5.676; closeness to ATHENE 10.278; helped by ATHENE 2.279, 11.438, 23.770; offers spoils to ATHENE 10.460.
Battlefield: advises the army must eat before battle 19.155, 230; boasts over Socus 11.440; coward? 8.94; kills his man 4.498, 5.677, 6.30, 11.322, 335, 420, 422, 425, 426, 447; night attack on Trojans 10.273; rallies Greeks 2.284, 11.312; retreats 11.461; retreats, failing to hear Diomedes 8.97; stops Greek flight 2.182; troops 2.631; wounded 11.437.
Other: attacks Thersites 2.246; brings men to order 2.188; complimented by Diomedes 10.243; described by Priam and Helen 3.191; father of Telemachus 2.260, 4.354; foot-race 23.755; has prize threatened 1.138, 145; old 23.790; insulted by Agamemnon 4.338; leads expedition to Chryse 1.311, 430; lectures Agamemnon 19.182; proposed for embassy to Achilles 9.169; recruits for the Trojan War 11.767; reflects on heroic duty 11.408; speech to Achilles 9.225; volunteers to challenge Hector 7.168; wrestling 23.709.
Omens10.274, 12.200, 13.821; see also ZEUS.
Pand
arus
attacks Diomedes 5.224; history 5.180; killed by Diomedes 5.296; troops 2.824; shoots at Diomedes 5.95; shoots at Menelaus 4.104.
Paris
Battlefield: arms 3.328; challenges Menelaus to duel 3.70; duel with Menelaus 3.346; hits Nestor’s horse 8.83; kills his man 7.8, 13.671, 15.341; retreats from Menelaus 3.29; willing to fight 6.339, 521, 13.775; wounds Diomedes 11.375, Machaon 11.505.
Other: aroused by Helen 3.441; criticized by Hector 3.38, 6.326, 13.769; hated by Trojans 3.454, 7.390; judgement of Paris 24.28; looks 3.55; refuses to return Helen but will give back goods 7.357; scourge 6.282; seduced Helen (starting the trouble) 3.46, 100, 354, 5.63, 6.290, 356, 7.374.
Patroclus
Battlefield: arms 16.130; attacked by APOLLO 16.791, 19.413; killed 16.855; kills his man 16.287, 308, 311, 313, 399, 404, 411, 415–17, 465, 586, 694, 737, 785; kills Sarpedon 16.481; warned by APOLLO 16.707.
Death: beginning of his disaster 11.604; body attended in death 18.344, 19.38; body saved 17.581, 18.231; buried 23.164; death foretold 8.476, 15.65, 18.12; deluded 16.685, 805; warns Hector 16.851.
Other: accuses Achilles of harshness 16.29; leaves the fighting 1.307; gentle 17.204, 670, 19.300, 21.96, 23.252, 281; hands over Briseis 1.345; hears Nestor’s story 11.656; helps Eurypylus 11.841; his father’s advice 11.786; history 23.85; must advise Achilles 11.788; older than Achilles 11.787; returns to Achilles 15.399; spirit visits Achilles 23.65; waits on Achilles 9.190, 205, 19.316.
Peleus
age 18.435, 19.336; advice to Achilles 9.254, 11.784; armour 18.84; effect of Achilles’ death 19.323, 334, 24.538; generosity to Phoenix 9.480; hopes to see his son 24.490; horses 16.381, 867, 17.443, 23.278; interest in families 7.128; marriage/immortal wife 18.87, 432, 24.60, 537; resemblance to Priam 22.421, 24.486, 534/543; spear 16.143, 19.390; wealth 9.400; will never see Achilles again 18.330, 23.144.
Polydamas
advice accepted by Hector 12.80, 13.748; advice rejected by Hector 12.230, 18.285, 22.100; avoids Ajax’s spear 14.462; gives advice to Hector 12.60, 210, 13.726, 18.254; kills his man 14.449, 15.339, 518.
POSEIDON
binding ZEUS 1.400; challenges APOLLO 21.436; chariot 13.21; inspires the Ajaxes 13.59, Agamemnon 14.139, Greeks 14.151, 364; intervenes on behalf of Greeks 13.43; parentage and rights 15.187; pities the Greeks, angry with ZEUS 13.15, 351, 15.185; reviles Achilles 14.139; saves Aeneas 20.291; stands by Achilles 21.284; will destroy wall 12.17; worried about Greek wall 7.446; yields to ZEUS 15.211.
