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| Son of Tantalus, and victor of Oenomaüs in the chariot race; father of Atreus and Thyestes. |
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| King of Pisa and father of Hippodamia; defeated and killed in chariot race against Pelops. |
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| Daughter of Oenomaüs of Pisa; prize of the famed chariot race won by Pelops with the help of Myrtilus, Oenomaüs's aid. |
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A son of Pelops; quarrels with brother Atreus over the kingship in Mycenae; tricked into eating his own sons by Atreus at the Banquet of Thyestes. |
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| Avenger son of Thyestes by his daughter Pelopia. |
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| Son of Pelops and father of Agamemnon and Menulaüs; quarrels with brother Thyestes over who rules in Mycenae. |
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| Son of Atreus and brother of Agamemnon; rules in Sparta after being awarded Helen by Tyndareüs; one of the generals in the Trojan War. |
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| Son of Atreus and brother of Menelaüs; rules in Mycenae; leader of the Greek forces in the Trojan War. |
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| King of Sparta, husband of Leda and father of Clytemnestra, and Castor, and stepfather of Helen and Polydeuces (Pollux). |
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| Son of Leda and Zeus; brother of Castor, the other Dioscuri |
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| Daughter of Zeus and Leda; married to Menelaüs and taken to Troy by Paris. |
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| Son of Leda and Tyndareüs; brother of Polydeuces; the other Dioscuri. |
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| Daughter of Tyndareüs and Leda; married to Agamemnon. |
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| Taken by the Greek kings to protect the one king who would finally marry Helen. |
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| King of Phthia and father of Achilles. |
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Son of Telamon of Salamis (unless qualified by "the Lesser," "Ajax" always refers to Ajax the Greater); one of the most formidable Greek warriors in the Trojan War. |
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| Wife of Priam, King of Troy. |
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| Bay in Thessaly where the Greek forces mustered for the Trojan War; they were pinned down by contrary winds sent by Artemis there until Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter. |
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| Son of Odysseus of Ithaca; used by Palamedes to expose Odysseus's feigned insanity. |
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| Greek warrior noted for cleverness; credited with having created the alphabet among other things; exposed Odysseus's feigned madness to avoid the Trojan War. |
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| Prophet of the Greeks during the Trojan War |
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| Warrior abandoned by the Greeks on Lemnos. |
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| Agamemnon's war prize demanded back by Apollo for Chryses, his priest and father of the girl. |
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Achilles's war prize demanded by Agamemnon to compensate for his loss of Chryseïs; this is the prozimate cause of Achilles's wrath. |
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| Wife of Hector; her pathos-filled speech in which she tried to persuade Hector to remain in the city wall is one of the most famous passages in all literature. |
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