The War That Killed Achilles

by Caroline Alexander

Achilles at

  Aias’ defense of

  fire around

  Hektor’s arrival at

  Priam’s going down to

  saving of

  see also Catalogue of Ships

  shipwrecks,

  similes

  Achilles’ use of

  natural world,

  Simoeis River(map)

  singers, professional

  Sipylos, Mount

  Skamandros meadow,

  Skamandros River (Xanthos)

  Achilles’ battle with,

  Skyros

  Sleep

  snakes, snake imagery

  Somalia

  Song of Kumarbi,

  Sophocles,

  soul (life force)

  Sparta(map)

  Zeus-Hera deal and

  spears

  of Achilles ,

  of Hektor

  Spercheios,

  Statius,

  Stesichorus,

  Strabo, xvii,

  Styx,

  Sun Maiden, abduction of

  Swelénā

  sympathy, in Iliad

  tablets:

  folding,

  Linear B, see Linear B tablets

  Task Force Tarawa,

  Teichoskopia (Viewing from the Walls)

  Telamon,

  Tenedos

  Tethys,

  Theano

  Thebes,

  Theogenes of Rhegium

  theogonies,

  Theogony (Hesiod)

  therápōn (comrade, follower, retainer, henchman)

  non-Greek origins of term,

  Patroklos as,

  Thersites

  Achilles’ killing of,

  etymology of name

  mass desertion advocated by

  origins of,

  Theseus,

  Thessaly(map) ,

  Peleus in

  Thetis ,

  Achilles’ armor and

  Achilles’ calling upon

  Achilles’ death and

  Briareus and

  children tempered by

  destiny of,

  Eos compared with,

  keening of

  marriage of ,

  Niobe compared with,

  Olympos visits of

  Patroklos’ body preserved by

  Peleus’ capture of,

  plea to Hephaistos by

  as savior of gods

  shape-shifting of

  Zeus and, see subheadings under Zeus

  Thrace

  Thucydides

  Timarchus,

  Tiryns,

  Titans, Zeus’ battle with,

  Tithonos,

  trade, of Mycenaeans

  tragedy, of Achilles

  treaties:

  Hittite-Wilusa,

  Near Eastern, Homeric agreements compared with,

  tribute lists,

  Trickster

  tripods

  Troad(map),

  Aineias’ descendants’ inheritance of

  description of

  Lesbos and

  Troilos,

  Trojan Catalogue,

  Trojan Horse

  Trojan plain

  Achilles’ pursuit of Hektor on

  battle for Patroklos’ corpse on

  description of physical damage to

  epic poets’ knowledge of

  map of

  Priam’s crossing of

  Trojans, Troy

  Achilles’ ship attacked by

  aftermath of fall of

  allies of,

  Apollo as guardian of ,

  assembly of

  Dardanian Gates of

  death of; see also specific individuals

  destruction of

  Doloneia and,

  elders of

  excavation of,

  fall of

  flight of routed army to,

  Hektor’s funeral in

  Hektor’s return to

  Hera’s hatred of

  history of settlement of

  horses of

  as local power

  map of

  Mycenaean pottery at

  Odysseus’ spying on

  other names used for, xix,

  palace citadel in

  Poseidon’s damage to

  ruins of

  sacking of,

  Sarpedon’s death and

  siege of

  Skaian Gates of

  textile industry of

  topography of,

  walls of ,

  wealth of

  Zeus’ sacrificing of

  Zeus’ turning of battle in favor of

  see also specific Trojans

  Trojan War:

  Achilles’ return to ,

  Achilles’ withdrawal from ,

  aftermath of

  causes of,

  dating of,

  divine intervention in, see divine intervention; divine rescue

  end of

  events outside the Iliad’s parameters and

  far-reaching consequences of

  hatred of

  indifference to outcome of

  Lesbos and,

  meaning of

  Paris’ absences from ,

  Peleus-Thetis wedding and

  plot outline of

  possibility of Trojan epic about

  reality of

  refugee memories and

  as spectacle of the gods

  as Total War

  Western Empire’s stories about

  see also specific topics

  Trojan War poems of the Epic Cycle ,

  Trojan women ,

  Athene’s offering from

  in Mycenaean inventories

  Troy VI,

  extent and significance of,

  Tübingen, University of,

  Turkey, see Anatolia

  Tydeus

  Ugarit,

  Zeus and,

  Underworld, see Hades

  Uranus,

  vase paintings,

  Vietnam War

  Virgil

  Walter Reed Army Medical Center

  warcraft,

  war prizes,

  Chryseis as

  distribution of

  warriors, war:

  Achilles’ denunciation of

  Athene and

  challenging of heroic view of

  death of, see death and dying

  enduring prevalence of

  essence of.

  mothers of

  speech “weaving” of

  wolves as ideal for,

  see also Trojan War; specific warriors

  war trauma

  wealth

  of Mycenaeans

  weaving:

  of Andromache

  Athene and

  of Helen

  masculine vs. feminine ,

  West Wind

  White Island

  widows

  Wilusa,

  wolves, wolf imagery,

  women:

  as booty or captives

  burial of

  concubines,

  as gifts

  rape of,

  of Skyros

  Trojan, see Trojan women

  widows

  work of,

  Works and Days (Hesiod),

  World War I,

  Christmas Truce in

  Gallipoli campaign in

  Mons battle in

  wounds, wounding

  of Achilles

  of Agamemnon

  of Aphrodite

  of Ares

  death from

  of Diomedes,

  of Hektor

  of Patroklos

  writing,

  Xanthos (horse),

  Xanthos (river), see Skamandros River

  Zeus ,

  Achilles-Hektor combat and

  Achilles’ prayer to

  aegis of,

  Agamemnon’s sacrifice to

 
Aineias rescued by,

  all-seeing

  Aphrodite scolded by

  Ares held in contempt by

  Athene’s birth and

  bovine forms and

  Briareus and,

  Deception of

  delusional dream sent by

  delusion and,

  divine intervention forbidden by

  divine intervention permitted by

  Hektor’s corpse and

  Hektor’s prayer to

  Helen’s descent from

  Hephaistos thrown from Olympos by ,

  Hera’s pact with

  Kronos overthrown by,

  Leda raped by

  meaning of name of

  origin of Myrmidons and

  punishment from,

  resumption of power by

  Sarpedon’s death and

  as storm god,

  Thetis as savior of

  Thetis’ marriage and,

  Thetis’ plea for Achilles to

  Thetis’ pledge from

  Thetis pursued by

  Trojans’ message from

  zone, of Hera,