Mythological Characters, Stories, And Places

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Zeus/Jupiter

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is the "Father of Gods and men", according to Hesiod's Theogony, who ruled the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father ruled the family; he was the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology.

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Hera/Juno

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was the wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology. Her chief function was as the goddess of women and marriage

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Athena/Minerva

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is the goddess of war, civilization, wisdom, strength, strategy, crafts, justice and skill in Greek mythology

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Aphtodite/Venus

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is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality

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Ajax

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son of Telamon, ruler of Salamis and a hero in the Trojan War, also known as "Ajax the Great"

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Achilles

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was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

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Briseis

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was a mythical queen in Asia Minor at the time of the Trojan War

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Chryseis

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was a Trojan woman, the daughter of Chryses. Chryseis, her apparent name in the Iliad, means simply "Chryses' daughter"; later writers give her real name as Astynome.[1]

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Hector

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is a Trojan prince and the greatest fighter of Troy in the Trojan War.

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Paris

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the son of Priam, king of Troy, appears in a number of Greek legends. Probably the best-known was his elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan War. Later in the war, he fatally wounds Achilles in the heel with an arrow, as foretold by Achilles's mother, Thetis.

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Helen

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Her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War

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Palamedes

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was the son of Nauplius
He is said to have invented counting, currency, weights and measures, jokes, dice and a forerunner of chess called pessoi, as well as military ranks. Sometimes he is credited with discoveries in the field of wine making and the supplementary letters of the Greek alphabet

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Agamemnon

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When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was abducted by Paris of Troy, Agamemnon was the commander of the Achaeans in the ensuing Trojan War.

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Pandarus

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he shoots Menelaus and wounds him with an arrow, sabotaging a truce that could potentially have led to the peaceful return of Helen of Troy

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Diomede(s)

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is a hero in Greek mythology, mostly known for his participation in the Trojan War. He was born to Tydeus and Deipyle and later became King of Argos, succeeding his maternal grandfather, Adrastus

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Judgement of Paris

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is a story from Greek mythology, which was one of the events that led up to the Trojan War and (in slightly later versions of the story) to the foundation of Rome.