Trojans — Minor Figures

12 figures from Hesiod and Homerica who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Aganus

child of Helen and Alexandrus · first appears The Cypria · Part 1

• The Cypria · Part 1 · parent: Helen “The writer of the Cyprian histories says that (Helen’s third child was) Pleisthenes and that she took him with her to Cyprus, and that the child she bore Alexandrus was Aganus.”
• The Cypria · Part 1 · parent: Alexandrus “the child she bore Alexandrus was Aganus.”

Deiphobus

first appears The Little Iliad

• The Little Iliad · married with Helen “After this Deiphobus marries Helen, Odysseus brings Neoptolemus from Scyros and gives him his father’s arms, and the ghost of Achilles appears to him.”

Penthesileia

Amazon · first appears The Aethiopis

• The Aethiopis · parent: Ares “The Amazon Penthesileia, the daughter of Ares and of Thracian race, comes to aid the Trojans”

Memnon

first appears The Aethiopis

• The Aethiopis · parent: Eos “Then Memnon, the son of Eos, wearing armour made by Hephaestus, comes to help the Trojans”
• The Cercopes · child: the mother of Passalus and Acmon (The Cercopes) “Their mother, a daughter of Memnon,”

Eurypylus

first appears The Little Iliad

• The Little Iliad · parent: Telephus “Eurypylus the son of Telephus arrives to aid the Trojans, shows his prowess and is killed by Neoptolemus.”
• The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2 · parent: Mecisteus “and with these two there went a third leader, Eurypylus, a godlike man, son of the lord Mecisteus, sprung of Talaus; but strong-voiced Diomedes was their chief leader.”

Hector

first appears The Little Iliad

• The Little Iliad · married with Andromache “And Neoptolemus chose out Andromache, Hector’s well-girded wife, and the chiefs of all the Achaeans gave her to him to hold requiting him with a welcome prize.”
• The Little Iliad · child: Astyanax “but her son he snatched from the bosom of his rich-haired nurse and seized him by the foot and cast him from a tower.”

Andromache

first appears The Little Iliad

• The Little Iliad · married with Hector “And Neoptolemus chose out Andromache, Hector’s well-girded wife, and the chiefs of all the Achaeans gave her to him to hold requiting him with a welcome prize.”
• The Little Iliad · child: Astyanax “but her son he snatched from the bosom of his rich-haired nurse”

Priam

first appears The Little Iliad

• The Little Iliad · child: Axion “Lescheos says that Axion was the son of Priam and was slain by Eurypylus, the son of Euaemon.”

Eurypylus son of Euaemon

first appears The Little Iliad

• The Little Iliad · parent: Euaemon “Lescheos says that Axion was the son of Priam and was slain by Eurypylus, the son of Euaemon.”

Laocoon's unnamed son

son of Laocoon · first appears The Sack of Ilium

• The Sack of Ilium · parent: Laocoon “two serpents appeared and destroyed Laocoon and one of his two sons, a portent which so alarmed the followers of Aeneas that they withdrew to Ida.”

Laocoon

Trojan · first appears The Sack of Ilium

• The Sack of Ilium · child: Laocoon's unnamed son “two serpents appeared and destroyed Laocoon and one of his two sons, a portent which so alarmed the followers of Aeneas that they withdrew to Ida.”

Axion

first appears The Little Iliad

• The Little Iliad · parent: Priam “Lescheos says that Axion was the son of Priam and was slain by Eurypylus, the son of Euaemon.”

⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index →

Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.