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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 ...
Homer and His Guide (1874) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Today, only the Iliad and the Odyssey are associated with the name "Homer". In antiquity, a large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the Homeric Hymns, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, several epigrams, the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Thebaid, the Cypria, the Epigoni, the comic mini-epic ...
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.
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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.
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The name of the deified form of Romulus. XIV: 828-863 [213] Romulus: The founder of Rome. Son of Ilia and Mars. He took the name Quirinus upon his deification. XIV: 799–846, XV: 560 [214] Saturnus: Roman god of agriculture and harvest. Brother and husband of Ops and father of Jupiter and his siblings.