The Greeks — Minor Figures

52 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.

Briseis

captive · first appears Book III · Part 4

• Book III · Part 4 · with Achilles “Thou tookest from me every bondmaid's task And like a wife didst hold me.”
• Book III · Part 5 · with Achilles “Briseis laid Her own shorn tresses on the corpse, her gift, Her last, unto her lord.”

Automedon

charioteer · first appears Book VIII · Part 1

• Book VIII · Part 1 · with Neoptolemus “Onward they whirled him, those immortal steeds, The which, when now he longed to chase the foe Back from the ships, Automedon, who wont To rein them for his father, brought to him.”
• Book IX · Part 2 · with Neoptolemus “And bade Automedon thither drive, where hosts Were falling of the Achaeans.”

Antiphus (Achaean)

warrior · first appears Book VI · Part 4

• Book VI · Part 4 · enemies with Eurypylus son of Telephus “Eurypylus hath slain Bucolion, Nesus, and Chromion and Antiphus;”

Atreus' sons

leaders · first appears Book V · Part 2

• Book VI · Part 4 · enemies with Eurypylus son of Telephus “He turned him from the host that he had chased Even to the ships, and rushed with eagle-swoop On Atreus' strong sons and Oileus' seed”

Bucolion

warrior · first appears Book VI · Part 4

• Book VI · Part 4 · enemies with Eurypylus son of Telephus “Eurypylus hath slain Bucolion, Nesus, and Chromion and Antiphus;”

Chromion

warrior · first appears Book VI · Part 4

• Book VI · Part 4 · enemies with Eurypylus son of Telephus “Eurypylus hath slain Bucolion, Nesus, and Chromion and Antiphus;”

Eurytus

warrior · first appears Book VIII · Part 1

• Book VIII · Part 1 · enemies with Eurypylus son of Telephus “First slew he battle-bider Eurytus,”
• Book VIII · Part 1 · with Eurypylus son of Telephus “First slew he battle-bider Eurytus”

Leonteus

warrior · first appears Book VII · Part 3

• Book VII · Part 3 · enemies with Eurypylus son of Telephus “But now Odysseus, Diomede the strong, Leonteus, and Neoptolemus, as a God In strength and beauty, hailed their javelins down, And thrust them from the wall.”

Menoetius

warrior · first appears Book VIII · Part 1

• Book VIII · Part 1 · enemies with Eurypylus son of Telephus “Menoetius of the glancing taslet next,”

Nesus

warrior · first appears Book VI · Part 4

• Book VI · Part 4 · enemies with Eurypylus son of Telephus “Eurypylus hath slain Bucolion, Nesus, and Chromion and Antiphus;”

Peneleos

warrior · first appears Book VII · Part 1

• Book VII · Part 1 · with Eurypylus son of Telephus “Peneleos the mighty-hearted came Against him in the pitiless fray: he fell Before Eurypylus' spear”