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PRONOUNCING GLOSSARY
The main purpose of this glossary is to indicate pronunciation. Identifications are brief, and only the first appearance of a name is listed.
Phonetic Equivalents:
Stress is indicated by an apostrophe after the stressed syllable (af’-ter).
ABANTES (a-ban’-teez): people of Euboea, 2.626.
ABARBAREA (a-bar-ba-ree’-a): nymph who bore two Trojans, Aesepus and Pedasus, to Bucolion, 6.25.
ABAS (a’-bas): son of the Trojan prophet Eurydamas, brother of Polyidus, killed by Diomedes. 5.165.
ABU (a’-bi-eye): northern tribe of Thrace, 13.8.
ABLERUS (ab-lee’-rus): Trojan killed by Antilochus, 6.37.
ABYDOS (a-beye’-dos): city on the southern shore of the Hellespont, northeast of Troy, 2.948.
ACAMAS (a’-ka-mas): (1) Trojan, son of Antenor, comrade of Aeneas, killed by Meriones, 2.934. (2) Trojan ally, son of Eussorus, commander of the Thracians, killed by Telamonian Ajax, 6.9.
ACESSAMENUS (a-ke-sa’-men-us): Thracian warlord, father of Periboea, 21.162.
ACHAEA (a-kee’-a): general, collective name for mainland Greece, 1.191.
ACHAEANS (a-kee’-unz): Greeks and their allies ranged against the Trojans, 1.2.
ACHELOUS (a-ke-loh’-us): (1) river in central and northwestern Greece, the largest river in Greece, 21.220. (2) River in Phrygia (Asia Minor), east of Troy, 24.725.
ACHILLES (a-kil’-eez): son of Peleus and Thetis, grandson of Aeacus, commander of the Myrmidons, Achaean allies, 1.1. See notes 1.1, 3.174, 19.494, 20.220- 28.
ACRISIUS (a-kri’-si-us): king of Argos, father of Danaë, 14.383.
ACTOR (ak’-tor): (1) son of Azeus, father of Astyoche, 2.603. (2) Apparent forebear of Cteatus and Eurytus, the Moliones, 2.714. (3) Father of Menoetius, grandfather of Patroclus, 11.938. (4) Father of Echecles, 16.224.
ADAMAS (a’-da-mas): Trojan, son of Asius (1), killed by Meriones, 13.649.
ADMETUS (ad-mee’-tus): king of Thessaly, son of Pheres, husband of Alcestis, father of Eumelus, 2.814.
ADRASTUS (a.dras’-tus): king of Sicyon, father (or perhaps grandfather) of Aegialia, father-in-law of Diomedes, 2.663.
ADRESTIA (a-ares-teye’ -a): city northeast of Troy, 2.939.
ADRESTUS (a-drees’-tus): (1) Trojan, son of Merops, brother of Amphius (1), commander of contingent from Adrestia, killed by Diomedes, 2.941. (2) Trojan killed by Menelaus and Agamemnon, 6.44. (3) Trojan killed by Patroclus, 16.812.
AEACIDES (ee-a’-si-deez): “grandson of Aeacus,” patronymic of Achilles, 18.256.
AEACUS (ee’-a-kus): son of Zeus, father of Peleus, grandfather of Achilles, 9.230.
AEANTES (ee-an’-teez): the two Achaeans called Ajax when spoken of as a pair, 4.321.
AEGAE (ee’-jee): Achaean city in the northern Peloponnese and sacred to Poseidon, 8.230..
AEGAEON (ee-jee’-on): name used by mortals for the hundred-handed giant called Briareus by the gods, 1.479.
AEGEUS (ee’-joos): father of Theseus, 1.309.
AEGIALIA (ee-ji-a-leye’-a): daughter (or perhaps granddaughter) of Adrastus, wife of Diomedes, 5.471. See note 14.148.
AEGIALUS (ee’-ji-a-lus): city in Paphlagonia, 2.967.
AEGILIPS (ee’-ji-lips): city or vicinity in the kingdom of Odysseus, 2.727.
AEGINA (ee.jeye’.na): island in the Saronic Gulf, in the kingdom of Argos, 2.653.
AEGION (ee’-jj-on): city in the kingdom of Agamemnon, 2.665.
AENEAS (ee-nee’-as): Trojan, son of Anchises and Aphrodite, commander of the Dardanians and future king of the Trojans, 2.931. See note 20.248-79.
AENIUS (ee’-ni-us): Trojan ally, Paeonian killed by Achilles, 21.236.
AENUS (ee’-nus): city in Thrace, 4.603.
AEOLUS (ee’-o-lus): father of Sisyphus, 6.181.
AEPEA (ee-pee’-a): city in the realm of Pylos, in the southwestern Peloponnese, 9.182.
AEPY (ee’-pee): city near Pylos in Nestor’s kingdom, 2.684.
APPYTUS (ee’-pi-tus): a hero of Arcadia, his tomb a landmark near Mount Cyllene in that region, 2.697.
AESEPUS (ee-see’-pus): (1) river near Zelea, flowing seaward from the Idaean hills, 2.936. (2) Trojan, son of Bucolion, twin brother of Pedasus, killed by Euryalus, 6.24.
AESYETES (ee-seye-ee¹-teez): (1) hero whose tomb is on the Trojan plain, 2.902. (2) Father of Trojan Alcathous, 13.495.
AESYME (ce-seye’-mee): city in Thrace, 8.347.
AESYMNUS (ee-sim’-nus): Achaean killed by Hector, 11.352.
AETHICES (ee-theye’-seez): tribe in Thessaly, 2.846.
AETHRA (ee’-thra): daughter of Pittheus and one of Helen’s women, 3.173.
AETOLIANS (ee-toh’-li-unz): 2.738, people of AETOLIA (ee-toh’-li-a). a region in northwestern Greece, 2.732.
AGACLES (at -ga-kleez): Trojan, father of the Achaean Epigeus, 16.668.