Greek — Minor Figures

30 figures from The Iliad who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Rhadamanthus

hero · first appears BOOK XIV

• BOOK XIV · parent: Jove “the daughter of Phoenix, who bore me Minos and Rhadamanthus”

Castor

horse-breaker · first appears BOOK III

• BOOK III · siblings with Helen “Castor, breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer; they are children of my mother, and own brothers to myself.”
• BOOK III · siblings with Pollux “I see, moreover, many other Achaeans whose names I could tell you, but there are two whom I can nowhere find, Castor, breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer; they are children of my mother, and own brothers to myself.”

Pollux

boxer · first appears BOOK III

• BOOK III · siblings with Helen “Castor, breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer; they are children of my mother, and own brothers to myself.”
• BOOK III · siblings with Castor “I see, moreover, many other Achaeans whose names I could tell you, but there are two whom I can nowhere find, Castor, breaker of horses, and Pollux the mighty boxer; they are children of my mother, and own brothers to myself.”

Alcmena

mother of Hercules · first appears BOOK XIV

• BOOK XIV · child: Hercules “Alcmena in Thebes by whom I begot my lion-hearted son Hercules”

Licymnius

elder relative · first appears BOOK II

• BOOK II · with Tlepolemus “When Tlepolemus grew up, he killed his father’s uncle Licymnius, who had been a famous warrior in his time”
• BOOK II · with Hercules “he killed his father’s uncle Licymnius”

Coronus

father · first appears BOOK II

• BOOK II · child: Leonteus “with him was Leonteus, of the race of Mars, who was son of Coronus, the son of Caeneus.”
• BOOK II · parent: Caeneus “Leonteus, of the race of Mars, who was son of Coronus, the son of Caeneus.”

Nomion

father · first appears BOOK II

• BOOK II · child: Nastes “These were commanded by Nastes and Amphimachus, the brave sons of Nomion.”
• BOOK II · child: Amphimachus “These were commanded by Nastes and Amphimachus, the brave sons of Nomion.”

Hypsipyle

mother · first appears BOOK VII

• BOOK VII · child: Eueneus “Eueneus the son of Jason, born to him by Hypsipyle.”

Rhene

mother · first appears BOOK II

• BOOK II · child: Medon “Medon, the bastard son of Oileus by Rhene, set them in array.”

Andraemon

father · first appears BOOK II

• BOOK II · child: Thoas “Thoas, son of Andraemon, commanded the Aetolians”

Azeus

father of Actor · first appears BOOK II

• BOOK II · parent: Actor “in the house of Actor son of Azeus”