Bible Encyclopedias

Agamem`non
A son of Atreus, king of Mycenæ and general-in-chief of the Greeks in the Trojan war, represented as a man of stately presence and a proud spirit.

A`jax
Name of two Greek heroes in the Trojan war, and the synonym of a fiery and impetuous warrior: he son of Telamon of Sparta, one of the bravest of the

Cassandra
A beautiful Trojan princess, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, whom Apollo endowed with the gift of prophecy, but, as she had rejected his suit, doomed to

Cæsar
Name of an old Roman family claiming descent from the Trojan Æneas, which the emperors of Rome from Augustus to Nero of right inherited, though

Dictys Cretensis
E . of Crete), the reputed author of a narrative of the Trojan war from the birth of Paris to the death of Ulysses, extant only in a Latin translation;

Diomedes
King of Argos, called Tydides, from his father; was, next to Achilles, the bravest of the Greeks at the Trojan war; fought under the protection of Athene

Evander
an arcadian, who is said to have come from greece with a colony to latium and settled in it 60 years before the trojan war, and with whom æneas formed an alliance when he landed in italy; he is credited with having introduced the civilising arts of greece.

Iliad
the great epic poem of homer, consisting of 24 books, the subject of which is the "wrath of achilles " (q. v .), and the events which followed during the last year of the ten years' trojan war, so called from ne of the names of troy. see ilium .

Ithaca
One of the Ionian Islands, and one of the smallest, known now under the name Thiaki; it was the home of Ulysses, and his domain as king when he set out

Laodamia
a grecian lady, who accompanied her husband to the trojan war, and who, on his death on the field, begged the gods to restore him to her for three hours, a prayer which was granted, but with the result that at the end of the time she died along with him and accompanied him on his return to hades.

Menelaus
king of sparta, the brother of agamemnon and the husband of helen, the carrying away of whom by paris led to the trojan war.

Nisus
a trojan youth who accompanied æneas into italy, and whose friendship for euryulus is so pathetically immortalised by virgil in the ninth book of the "æneid."

Paris (2)
The second son of Priam and Hecuba; was exposed on Mount Ida at his birth; brought up by a shepherd; distinguished himself by his prowess, by which his

Patroclus
a friend of achilles, who accompanied him to the trojan war, and whose death by the hand of hector roused achilles out of his sullenness, and provoked him to avenge the deed in the death of hector.

Priam
The old king of Troy during the Trojan War; was the son of Laomedon, who with the help of Apollo and Poseidon built the city; had a large family by his

Stentor
a grecian herald who accompanied the greeks in the trojan war, and whom homer describes as "the great-hearted, brazen-voiced stentor, whose shout was as loud as that of fifty other men," hence the epithet stentorian.

Tenedos
a rocky but fertile little island belonging to turkey, in the ægean, 3 m. off the mainland of turkey in asia, and 12 m. s. of the entrance to the dardanelles; it was the place the greeks made a feint they had returned to during the trojan war.

Ulysses
E . Greek Odysseus), chieftain of Ithaca, one of the Greek heroes in the Trojan War, in which he was with difficulty persuaded to join, but in which,

Æne`as
a trojan, the hero of virgil's "æneid," who in his various wanderings after the fall of troy settled in italy, and became, tradition alleges, the forefather of the julian gens in rome.