Glyn Iliffe - The Armour of Achilles

Poseidon

– god of the sea

Priam

– king of Troy

Pylos

– city on the western seaboard of the Peloponnese

Pythoness

– high priestess of the Pythian oracle

R

Rhesus

– king of the Thracians, allies of Troy

S

Samos

– neighbouring island to Ithaca, also under the rule of Odysseus

Sarpedon

– king of the Lycians, allies of Troy

Scamander

– river on the Trojan plain

Sthenelaus

– companion of Diomedes

T

Talthybius

– squire to Agamemnon

Taphians

– pirate race from Taphos

Tecmessa

– wife of Great Ajax

Telemachus

– son of Odysseus and Penelope

Tenedos

– island off the coast of Ilium

Teucer

– famed archer, half-brother and companion to Great Ajax

Thebe

– city in Ilium

Thebes

– city in central Greece

Thersites

– Aetolian hunchback

Thetis

– chief of the Nereids and mother of Achilles

Tlepolemos

– king of Rhodes

Troy

– chief city of Ilium, on the eastern seaboard of the Aegean

X

Xanthus

– famed horse of Achilles, sibling of Balius

xenia

– the custom of friendship towards strangers

Z

Zeus

– king of the gods

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Table of Contents

BOOK ONE

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

BOOK TWO

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

BOOK THREE

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chapter Thirty-Four

Chapter Thirty-Five

Chapter Thirty-Six

Chapter Thirty-Seven

BOOK FOUR

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Chapter Forty

Chapter Forty-One

Chapter Forty-Two

Chapter Forty-Three

Chapter Forty-Four

Chapter Forty-Five

Chapter Forty-Six

Chapter Forty-Seven

Chapter Forty-Eight