Other Figures — Minor Figures

69 figures from The Fall of Troy who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Atrytone

goddess · first appears Book I · Part 5

• Book I · Part 5 · with Achilles “A battle-fury like the War-god's wrath Maddened; such might was breathed into these twain By Atrytone, Shaker of the Shield, As on they pressed.”
• Book I · Part 5 · with Ajax son of Telamon “A battle-fury like the War-god's wrath Maddened; such might was breathed into these twain By Atrytone, Shaker of the Shield, As on they pressed.”

Chiron

artisan · first appears Book I · Part 5

• Book I · Part 5 · with Achilles “He spake; he swung up in his mighty hand And sped the long spear warrior-slaying, wrought By Chiron”

Cyenus

warrior · first appears Book IV · Part 1

• Book IV · Part 1 · with Achilles “how his spear laid Cyenus low, Poseidon's son, and godlike Polydorus,”

Lycaon

warrior · first appears Book IV · Part 1

• Book IV · Part 1 · with Achilles “And how he dyed with blood the river-streams Of Xanthus, and with countless corpses choked His murmuring flow, when from the limbs he tore Lycaon's life beside the sounding river;”

Polydorus (slain by Achilles)

prince · first appears Book IV · Part 1

• Book IV · Part 1 · with Achilles “In Thebe; how his spear laid Cyenus low, Poseidon's son, and godlike Polydorus, Troilus the goodly, princely Asteropaeus;”
• Book IV · Part 4 · with Agamemnon “To Atreus' son, while laughed his lips for joy, God-sprung Polydorus' breastplate silver-wrought.”

Deidameia

queen and mother of Achilles' son · first appears Book VII · Part 2

• Book VII · Part 2 · child: Neoptolemus “To whom of Deidameia thou wast born--”

Harpy

mythical being · first appears Book VIII · Part 1

• Book VIII · Part 1 · with Neoptolemus “These the West-wind begat, the Harpy bare”

Lycomedes

grandfather of Achilles' son · first appears Book VII · Part 2

• Book VII · Part 2 · younger kin: Neoptolemus “Then to his side old Lycomedes came, And to his battle-eager grandson spake:”

Nirus

warrior · first appears Book XI · Part 1

• Book XI · Part 1 · with Neoptolemus “Nirus upon him laid he dead; the spear”

West-wind

father of Arion · first appears Book IV · Part 4

• Book IV · Part 4 · child: Arion “Of swift Arion ran, the foal begotten By the loud-piping West-wind on a Harpy,”
• Book VIII · Part 1 · with Neoptolemus “These the West-wind begat, the Harpy bare”

Alcimedon

warrior · first appears Book XI · Part 3

• Book XI · Part 3 · with Aeneas “Aeneas, who had marked, albeit afar, That bold assault, rushed on him, dashed on his head So huge a stone that the hero's mighty strength Shattered the ladder.”