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Odysseus (Ὀδυσσεύς), another warrior-king, famed for his cunning, who is the main character of another (roughly equally ancient) epic, the Odyssey. Patroclus (Πάτροκλος), beloved companion of Achilles. Phoenix (Φοῖνιξ), an old Achaean warrior, greatly trusted by Achilles, who acts as mediator between Achilles and Agamemnon.
List of Homeric characters This page was last edited on 13 February 2025, at 04:11 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
This list may not reflect recent changes. * List of Homeric characters; A. Ablerus (mythology) Acessamenus; Actor (mythology) Adamas (mythology) Aenius; Agamede ...
A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles.Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.
Achilles (Αχιλλεύς or Αχιλλέας), hero of the Trojan War and a central character in Homer's Iliad; Aeneas (Αινείας), a hero of the Trojan War and progenitor of the Roman people; Ajax the Great (Αίας ο Μέγας), a hero of the Trojan War and king of Salamis
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Map of Homeric Greece. In the debate since antiquity over the Catalogue of Ships, the core questions have concerned the extent of historical credibility of the account, whether it was composed by Homer himself, to what extent it reflects a pre-Homeric document or memorized tradition, surviving perhaps in part from Mycenaean times, or whether it is a result of post-Homeric development. [2]
As it stands, this is far from a complete list of characters in the Iliad. Is this intended as only the major characters notable enough to warrent articles on their own? If the latter, the lead needs to be edited to make that clear. —Quasirandom 18:30, 3 May 2008 (UTC) I agree, the page needs to be longer.