Glyn Iliffe - The Armour of Achilles

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‘It has suspense, treachery, and bone-crunching action

. . . It will leave fans of the genre eagerly awaiting

the rest of the series’

Harry Sidebottom, Times Literary Supplement

‘The reader does not need to be a classicist by any means to

enjoy this epic and stirring tale. It makes a great novel

and would be an even better film’

Historical Novels Review

Glyn Iliffe studied English and Classics at Reading University, where he developed a passion for the ancient stories of Greek history and mythology. Well travelled, Glyn has visited nearly forty countries, trekked in the Himalayas, spent six weeks hitchhiking across North America and had his collarbone broken by a bull in Pamplona.

He is married with two daughters and lives in Leicestershire. King of Ithaca was his first novel, followed by The Gates of Troy .

Also by Glyn Iliffe

King of Ithaca

The Gates of Troy

GLOSSARY

A

Achilles

– Myrmidon prince

Adramyttium

– city in south-eastern Ilium, allied to Troy

Adrestos

– Trojan soldier

Aeneas

– Dardanian prince, the son of Anchises

Aethiopes

– black-skinned warriors from northern Africa

Agamemnon

– king of Mycenae, leader of the Greeks

Ajax (greater)

– king of Salamis, and Achilles’s cousin

Ajax (lesser)

– king of Locris

Alybas

– home city of Eperitus, in northern Greece

Andromache

– wife of Hector and daughter of King Eëtion

Antenor

– Trojan elder

Antícleia

– mother of Odysseus

Antilochus

– Greek warrior, son of Nestor

Antimachus

– Trojan elder

Antinous

– son of Eupeithes

Antiphus

– Ithacan guardsman

Apheidas

– Trojan commander, father of Eperitus

Aphrodite

– goddess of love

Apollo

– archer god, associated with music, song and healing

Arceisius

– Ithacan soldier, formerly squire to Eperitus

Ares

– god of war

Argus

– Odysseus’s hunting dog

Artemis

– moon-goddess associated with childbirth, noted for her virginity and vengefulness

Astyanax

– infant son of Hector and Andromache

Astynome

– daughter of Chryses, a priest of Apollo

Athena

– goddess of wisdom and warfare

Aulis

– sheltered bay in the Euboean Straits

B

Balius

– famed horse of Achilles, sibling of Xanthus

Briseis

– daughter of Briseus the priest, captured by Achilles at Lyrnessus

C

Calchas

– priest of Apollo, adviser to Agamemnon

Cassandra

– Trojan princess, daughter of Priam

Chryse

– small island off the coast of Ilium

Chryses

– a priest of Apollo on the island of Chryse

Clymene

– Trojan woman, hostage of Apheidas

Clytaemnestra

– queen of Mycenae and wife of Agamemnon

D

Dardanus

– city to the north of Troy

Deidameia

– wife of Achilles

Deiphobus

– Trojan prince, younger brother of Hector and Paris

Democoön

– Trojan prince

Diocles

– Spartan soldier

Diomedes

– king of Argos

Dolon

– Trojan spy

Dulichium

– Ionian island, forming northernmost part of Odysseus’s kingdom

E

Eëtion

– king of the Cilicians, allies of Troy, and father of Andromache

Elpenor

– Ithacan soldier

Eperitus

– captain of Odysseus’s guard

Eteoneus

– squire to Menelaus

Eupeithes

– member of the Kerosia

Euryalus

– companion of Diomedes

Eurybates

– Odysseus’s squire

Eurylochus

– Ithacan soldier, cousin of Odysseus

Eurypylus

– Thessalian king

Eurysaces

– infant son of Great Ajax

Evandre

– cousin of Queen Penthesilea

G

Gyrtias

– warrior from Rhodes

H

Hades

– god of the Underworld

Halitherses

– former captain of Ithacan royal guard, given joint charge of Ithaca in Odysseus’s absence

Hecabe

– Trojan queen, wife of King Priam

Hector

– Trojan prince, oldest son of King Priam

Helen

– former queen of Sparta, now wife of Paris

Hephaistos

– god of fire; blacksmith to the Olympians

Heracles

– greatest of all Greek heroes

Hermes

– messenger of the gods; his duties also include shepherding the souls of the dead to the Underworld

I

Ida (Mount)

– principal mountain in Ilium

Idaeus

– herald to King Priam

Idomeneus

– king of Crete

Ilium

– region of which Troy was the capital

Iphigenia

– daughter of Eperitus and Clytaemnestra, sacrificed by Agamemnon

Ithaca

– island in the Ionian Sea

L

Lacedaemon

– Sparta

Laertes

– Odysseus’s father

Lemnos

– island in the Aegean Sea

Leothoë

– daughter of King Altes of the Leleges, allies of Troy

Lethos

– Trojan prisoner

Lycaon

– Trojan prince

Lyrnessus

– city in south-eastern Ilium, allied to Troy

M

Machaon

– famed healer, son of Asclepius and brother to Podaleirius

Medon

– Malian commander

Melantho

– Ithacan girl, wife of Arceisius

Memnon

– king of the Aethiopes, allies of Troy

Menelaus

– king of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon and cuckolded husband of Helen

Menestheus

– king of Athens

Menoetius

– father of Patroclus

Mentes

– Taphian chieftain

Mentor

– close friend of Odysseus, given joint charge of Ithaca in Odysseus’s absence

Mycenae

– most powerful city in Greece, situated in north-eastern Peloponnese

Myrmidons

– the followers of Achilles

N

Nestor

– king of Pylos

Nisus

– Ithacan elder

O

Odysseus

– king of Ithaca

Oenops

– Ithacan noble

Omeros

– Ithacan soldier and bard

P

Palamedes

– Nauplian prince

Palladium

– sacred image of Athena’s companion, Pallas

Pandarus

– prince of the Zeleians, allies of Troy

Pandion

– murdered king of Alybas

Paris

– Trojan prince, second eldest son of King Priam

Patroclus

– cousin of Achilles and captain of the Myrmidons

Pedasus

– horse captured by Achilles at Thebe

Peisandros

– Myrmidon commander

Peleus

– father of Achilles

Penelope

– queen of Ithaca and wife of Odysseus

Penthesilea

– queen of the Amazons

Pergamos

– the citadel of Troy

Philoctetes

– Malian archer, deserted by the Greeks on Lemnos

Phronius

– Ithacan elder

Phthia

– region of northern Greece

Pleisthenes

– youngest son of Menelaus and Helen

Podaleirius

– famed healer, son of Asclepius and brother to Machaon

Podarces

– Thessalian leader

Podes

– Hector’s best friend, brother of Andromache

Polites

– Ithacan warrior

Polyctor

– Ithacan noble

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