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The Iliad · Character Index

543 characters extracted from the original text, every relationship traceable to a quoted passage. Start from the major figures, or browse by house.

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Major figures

  • Achilles — 149 relationships · warrior
  • Hector — 135 relationships · warrior
  • Jove — 103 relationships · king of the gods
  • Priam — 77 relationships · king
  • Agamemnon — 72 relationships · king
  • Apollo — 58 relationships · god
  • Thetis — 56 relationships · mother of Achilles
  • Menelaus — 54 relationships · king and commander
  • Patroclus — 54 relationships · companion of Achilles
  • Ajax son of Telamon — 51 relationships · warrior
  • Minerva — 46 relationships · goddess
  • Nestor — 46 relationships · king of Pylos
  • Diomed — 42 relationships · warrior
  • Juno — 40 relationships · goddess
  • Ulysses — 38 relationships · captain
  • Aeneas — 35 relationships · commander
  • Paris — 35 relationships · Trojan champion
  • Nereus — 34 relationships
  • Sarpedon — 27 relationships · captain of the Lycians
  • Teucer — 27 relationships · warrior
  • Helen — 25 relationships · queen of Sparta and Troy
  • Neptune — 25 relationships · god
  • Mars — 23 relationships · god of war
  • Peleus — 23 relationships · father of Achilles

By house

trojans (45)

achaeans (43)

trojan (35)

  • Priam — 77 relationships · king
  • Aeneas — 35 relationships · commander
  • Paris — 35 relationships · Trojan champion
  • Antenor — 21 relationships · father
  • Polydamas — 15 relationships · warrior and counsellor
  • Acamas — 12 relationships · commander
  • Deiphobus — 12 relationships · warrior
  • Agenor — 11 relationships · warrior
  • Lycaon son of Priam — 11 relationships · brother of Alexandrus
  • Anchises — 8 relationships · father
  • Asius — 8 relationships · commander
  • Archelochus — 7 relationships · commander
  • Laothoe — 7 relationships · daughter of Altes
  • Alcathous — 6 relationships · warrior
  • Coon — 6 relationships · warrior
  • Hippothous — 6 relationships · commander
  • Pandarus — 6 relationships · commander
  • Adrestus — 5 relationships · commander
  • Antimachus — 5 relationships · counsellor
  • Iphidamas — 5 relationships · warrior
  • Dardanus — 4 relationships · ancestor of Priam
  • Isus — 4 relationships · warrior
  • Merops — 4 relationships · father
  • Polites — 4 relationships · watchman
  • Amphius — 3 relationships · commander
  • Apisaon — 3 relationships · warrior
  • Clymene — 3 relationships · handmaid
  • Echepolus — 3 relationships · nobleman
  • Enops — 3 relationships · father of Satnius
  • Hypeirochus — 3 relationships · father of Itymoneus
  • Ilioneus — 3 relationships · warrior
  • Laodice — 3 relationships · daughter of Priam
  • Lycaon — 3 relationships · father
  • Pisander — 3 relationships · warrior
  • Socus — 3 relationships · warrior

achaean (29)

greek (24)

  • Hercules — 11 relationships · hero and father
  • Oileus — 9 relationships · father
  • Mecisteus — 7 relationships · father
  • Aesculapius — 6 relationships · father
  • Eueneus — 6 relationships · merchant
  • Laertes — 6 relationships · father of Ulysses
  • Actor — 5 relationships · father of Astyoche
  • Iphiclus — 5 relationships · father
  • Euaemon — 4 relationships · father
  • Hippodameia — 4 relationships · mother
  • Iphitus — 4 relationships · father
  • Lethus — 4 relationships · father
  • Talaus — 4 relationships · grandfather
  • Agrius — 3 relationships · son of Portheus
  • Capaneus — 3 relationships · father
  • Cteatus — 3 relationships · father
  • Jason — 3 relationships · father
  • Melas — 3 relationships · son of Portheus
  • Perseus — 3 relationships · hero
  • Peteos — 3 relationships · father
  • Phylacus — 3 relationships · grandfather
  • Phyleus — 3 relationships · father
  • Portheus — 3 relationships · father of Agrius, Melas, and Oeneus
  • Thessalus — 3 relationships · father

gods (9)

  • Jove — 103 relationships · king of the gods
  • Apollo — 58 relationships · god
  • Thetis — 56 relationships · mother of Achilles
  • Minerva — 46 relationships · goddess
  • Juno — 40 relationships · goddess
  • Saturn — 14 relationships · father of Jove
  • Vulcan — 13 relationships · god
  • Leto — 8 relationships · goddess
  • Bacchus — 3 relationships · god

olympians (6)

  • Mars — 23 relationships · god of war
  • Venus — 20 relationships · goddess
  • Diana — 14 relationships · goddess
  • Mercury — 8 relationships · god
  • Hades — 4 relationships · god of the underworld
  • Rhea — 3 relationships · goddess

lycians (6)

Unaffiliated (5)

divine (4)

aetolians (4)

  • Marpessa — 4 relationships · mother of Cleopatra
  • Cleopatra — 3 relationships · wife of Meleager
  • Ides — 3 relationships · father of Cleopatra
  • Meleager — 3 relationships · warrior

olympian (2)

  • Neptune — 25 relationships · god
  • Sleep — 5 relationships · god

thracians (2)

  • Lycurgus — 4 relationships · warrior
  • Rhesus — 4 relationships · king

trojan/achaean (1)

  • Helen — 25 relationships · queen of Sparta and Troy

argives (1)

  • Oeneus — 10 relationships · king

cilicians (1)

  • Eetion — 6 relationships · king

mortals (1)

  • Niobe — 5 relationships · mythic mother

chryse (1)

  • Chryses — 4 relationships · priest of Apollo

trojan-aligned gods (1)

lycian (1)

arcadian (1)

elean (1)

  • Mulius — 3 relationships · warrior

giants (1)

  • Otus — 3 relationships · son of Aloeus

paeonian (1)

  • Pelegon — 3 relationships · father of Asteropaeus

ithacan (1)

  • Telemachus — 3 relationships · son of Ulysses

Minor figures

Characters who appear only briefly are gathered here — each still has their own page.

Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.

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