This presentation was about the Homeric Characters in the film "Troy & Odyssey", and their participation in the Trojan War.

1. TROJAN WAR

2. BASED
ON THE
FILM
TROY &
ODYSSEY
Homeric Characters

3. GREEKS

4. Achilles
• Central character of Iliad, great
warrior, son of goddess, Thetis,
and warrior, Peleus
• the leader of the Myrmidons, son
of Peleus and Thetis and the
principal Greek champion
whose anger is one of the main
elements of the story

5. Helen
• daughter of Zeus, wife of
Menelaus, the king of Sparta and
consort of Paris
• With the assistance of Aphrodite,
Paris and Helen fall in love and
elope back to Troy, but in Sparta
her elopement is considered an
abduction.

6. Menelaus
- king of
Sparta, the
abandoned
husband of
Helen, younger
brother of
Agamemnon

7. Agamemnon
• king of Mycenae and leader of the
Achaean expedition to Troy
• King of Mycenae, supreme
commander of the Achaean
armies whose actions provoke the
feud with Achilles; elder brother
of King Menelaus

8. Odysseus
• king of Ithaca, hero of the
Odyssey (Odysseus)
• another warrior-king, famed for
his cunning, who is the main
character of another (roughly
equally ancient) epic,
the Odyssey

9. Penelope
• wife of Odysseus, mother of
Telemachus, she is clever and
loyal to Odysseus, she is
contrasted with Clytemnestra

10.  PATROCLUS
 CRESSIDA
 AJAX
 AJAX the
Lesser
- Achilles' friend; killed by
Hector
- daughter of Chryse; captive
of Agamemnon
- Achaean, son of Telamon,
commander of troops from
Salamis
- an Achaean commander, son
of Oileus often fights
alongside Great Ajax

11.  CALCHAS
 DIOMEDES
 IDOMENEUS
- a powerful Greek prophet
and omen reader, who
guided the Greeks through
the war with his predictions
- the youngest of the Achaean
commanders
- King of Crete and Achaean
commander. Leads a charge
against the Trojans in Book
13

12.  NESTOR
 PHOENIX
 TEUCER
- Oldest member of the entire
Greek army at Troy
- an old Achaean warrior greatly
trusted by Achilles, acts as
mediator between Achilles and
Agamemnon
- Achaean archer, half-brother
of Ajax

13.  TELEMACHUS
 LAERTES
 CHRYSEIS
- son of Odysseus and
Penelope, matures during
his travels to Sparta and
Pylos, fights Penelope's
suitors with Odysseus
- father of Odysseus
- Chryses’ daughter, taken
as a war prize by
Agamemnon

14. TROJANS

15. Hector
• Firstborn son of King Priam and
Hecuba
• husband of Andromache, father
of Astyanax, leader of the Trojan
and allied armies and heir
apparent to the throne of Troy

16. Paris
• son of Priam and Hecuba
• Trojan prince and Hector's
brother, also called Alexander; his
abduction of Helen is the casus
belli. He was supposed to be killed
as a baby because his sister
Cassandra that he would cause
the destruction of Troy. Raised by
a shepherd

17. Priam
• king of the Trojans, son and
successor of Laomedon, husband
of Queen Hecuba, father of
Hector and Paris, too old to take
part in the fighting; many of his
fifty sons are counted among the
Trojan commanders

18. BRESEIS
• captive of Achilles
• mistress and love interest of
Achilles, a woman captured in the
sack of Lyrnessos, a small town in
the territory of Troy, and awarded
to Achilles as a prize; Agamemnon
takes her from Achilles in Book 1
and Achilles withdraws from
battle as a result

19.  RHESUS
 PANDARUS
 DOLON
 AGENOR
- king of Thrace; ally of
Trojans; killed by Odysseus
and Diomedes who take his
famed horses
- Trojan commander killed by
Diomedes
- Trojan spy killed by Odysseus
and Diomedes
- a Trojan warrior who
attempts to fight Achilles in
Book 21

20.  AENEAS
 ANTENOR
 POLYDAMAS
- cousin of Hector, son of
Aphrodite, the only major
Trojan figure to survive the
war, forefather of the
founders of Rome
- a Trojan nobleman who
argues that Helen should be
returned to Menelaus in order
to end the war
- a young Trojan commander

21.  GLAUCUS
 SARPEDON
- co-leader of the Lycian
forces allied to the Trojan
cause with Sarpedon
- co-leader of
the Lycian forces allied to
the Trojan cause
with Glaucus, son of Zeus
REFERENCES:
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_War
2 en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_Greek_mythological