Other Figures — Minor Figures
70 figures from The Iliad who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Minos
ruler · first appears BOOK XIII
- BOOK XIII · parent: Deucalion “Minos in his turn begot a son, noble Deucalion”
- BOOK XIV · parent: Jove “the daughter of Phoenix, who bore me Minos and Rhadamanthus”
Themis
goddess · first appears BOOK XX
- BOOK XX · with Jove “Meanwhile Jove from the top of many-delled Olympus, bade Themis gather the gods in council, whereon she went about and called them to the house of Jove.”
Mygdon
leader · first appears BOOK III
- BOOK III · with Priam “When I was in Phrygia I saw much horsemen, the people of Otreus and of Mygdon, who were camping upon the banks of the river Sangarius; I was their ally, and with them when the Amazons, peers of men, came up against them.”
Otreus
leader · first appears BOOK III
- BOOK III · with Priam “When I was in Phrygia I saw much horsemen, the people of Otreus and of Mygdon, who were camping upon the banks of the river Sangarius; I was their ally, and with them when the Amazons, peers of men, came up against them.”
Chryseis
daughter of Chryses · first appears BOOK I
- BOOK I · parent: Chryses “Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter”
- BOOK I · with Agamemnon “I will not free her. She shall grow old in my house at Argos far from her own home”
Cinyras
king · first appears BOOK XI
- BOOK XI · with Agamemnon “about his chest he set the breastplate which Cinyras had once given him as a guest-gift.”
- BOOK XI · with Agamemnon “about his chest he set the breastplate which Cinyras had once given him as a guest-gift.”
Hippocoon
counsellor · first appears BOOK X
- BOOK X · with Rhesus “Hippocoon, a counsellor of the Thracians and a noble kinsman of Rhesus”
- BOOK X · with Apollo “coming to the host of the Trojans he roused Hippocoon, a counsellor of the Thracians and a noble kinsman of Rhesus.”
Mentes
chief · first appears BOOK XVII
- BOOK XVII · with Apollo “in the guise of Mentes chief of the Cicons incited Hector to attack him”
Actaea
first appears BOOK XVIII
- BOOK XVIII · parent: Nereus “Cymothoe, Actaea”
- BOOK XVIII · siblings with Thetis “Listen, she cried, sisters, daughters of Nereus”
Agave
first appears BOOK XVIII
- BOOK XVIII · parent: Nereus “Amphithoe and Agave”
- BOOK XVIII · siblings with Thetis “Listen, she cried, sisters, daughters of Nereus”
Amatheia
first appears BOOK XVIII