EURYALUS (yoo-reye’-a-lus): Achaean, son of Mecisteus (1), third in command, after Diomedes and Sthenelus, of the Argolid contingent, 2.656.
EURYBATES (yoo-ri’-ba-teez): (1) Achaean, herald of Agamemnon, 1.376. (2) Achaean, herald of Odysseus, 2.212.
EURYDAMAS (yoo-ri’-da-mas): interpreter of dreams. father of the Trojans Abas and Polyidus (1), 5.166.
EURYMEDON (yoo-ri’-me-don): (1) Achaean, son of Ptolemaeus, charioteer of Agamemnon, 4.261. (2) Achaean, charioteer of Nestor, 8.132.
EURYNOME (yoo-ri’-no-mee): goddess, daughter of Ocean, 18.466.
EURYPYLUS (yoo-ri’-pi-lus): (1) king of Cos, 2.773. (2) Achaean, son of Euaemon, commander of Thessalians from Ormenion, 2.838.
EURYSTHEUS (yoo-ris’-thyoos): king of Mycenae, son of Sthenelus (2), grandson of Perseus and taskmaster of Heracles, 8.419. See note 2.748.
EURYTUS (yoo’-ri-tus): (1) king of Oechalia, 2.688. (2) Son of Poseidon, supposed son of Actor (2), twin brother of Cteatus (together called the Moliones), father of the Achaean Thalpius, 2.714.
EUSSORUS (yoo-sor’-us): Trojan, father of Acamas (2), 6.9.
EUTRESIS (yoo-tree’-sis): city in Boeotia, 2.592.
EXADIUS (ex-a’-di-us): Lapith, hero of the generation of Nestor, 1.308.
FATE(S): shadowy but potent figures who ultimately control the destiny of mortals, 2.182.
FURIES: avenging spirits whose task it is to exact blood for blood when no human avenger is left alive, 9.554. They are particularly concerned with injuries done by one member of a family to another, and they have regulatory powers as well, as when they stop the voice of Achilles’ stallion Xanthus, 19.495. See note 3.332.
GANYMEDE (ga’-ni-meed): son of Tros (1), made immortal as the cup-bearer to Zeus and the other gods, 5.294. See note ad loc.
GARGARON (gar’-ga-ron): the central peak of Mount Ida, and Zeus’s favorite lookout point, 8.56.
GLAPHYRAE (gla’-fi-ree): city in Thessaly, in the kingdom of Eumelus, 2.813.
GLAUCUS (glaw’-kus): (1) Trojan ally, son of Hippolochus, one of the commanders of the Lycians, 2.988. (2) Son of Sisyphus, father of Bellerophon, great-grandfather of Glaucus (1), 6.181.
GLISAS (gleye’-sas): city in Boeotia, 2.594.
GONOÊSSA (go-no-es’-a): Achaean city in the kingdom of Agamemnon, 2.664.
GORGON (gor’-gon): a fabulous female monster whose glance could turn a person into stone, the centerpiece of Zeus’s aegis, 5.849.
GORGYTHION (gor-ji’-thi-on): Trojan, son of Priam and Castianira, killed by Teucer, 8.344.
GORTYN (gor’-tin): city in Crete, 2.741.
GRACES: attendant goddesses, daughters of Zeus who personify beauty and charm, often associated with the arts and the Muses, 5.379.
GRAEA (gree’-a): city in Boeotia, 2.588.
GREAT BEAR: constellation, also called the Wagon and the Big Dipper, 18.569. See note ad loc.
GRENICUS (gree’-ni-kus): river in the Troad, 12.24.
GUNEUS (goon’-yoos): Achaean, commander of the Enienes and Peraebians living near Dodona, 2.850.
GYGE, LAKE (geye’-jee): nymph of a lake in Maconia, mother of the Trojan Mesthles and Antiphus (2) by Talaemenes, perhaps the mother of the Trojan Iphition by Otrynteus, 2.977.
GYRTIUS (gur’-ti-us): father of Hyrtius, 14.599.
GYRTONE (jur-toh’-nee): Thessalian city in the kingdom of Polypoetes, 2.840.
HADES (hay’-deez): ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus, Demeter and Poseidon, 15.225.
HAEMON (hee’-mon): (1) Achaean, one of the Pylian captains, 4.339. (2) Father of Laerces, 17.537.
HALCYON (hal’-si-on): a seabird, the name her parents gave Cleopatra, 9.684.
HALIARTUS (ha-li-ar’-tus): city in Boeotia, 2.593.
HALIUS (ha’-li-us): Trojan ally, Lycian killed by Odysseus, 5.778.
HALIZONIANS (ha-li-zoh’-ni-unz): Trojan allies, a tribe from south of the Black Sea, led by Odius (1) and Epistrophus (3), 2.968.
HARMA (har’-ma): city in Boeotia, 2.589.
HARMON (har’-mon): Trojan blacksmith, father of Tecton, 5.65.
NARPALION (har-pay’-li-on): Trojan ally from Paphlagonia, son of Pylaemenes, killed by Meriones, 13.742.
HEBE (hee’-bee): goddess of youth, daughter of Zeus and Hera, servant of the gods, 4.2.
HECAMEDE (he-ka-mee’-dee): daughter of Arsinous, Nestor’s captive, 11.735.
HECTOR (hek’-tor): Trojan, son of Priam and Hecuba, supreme commander of the Trojans, 1.285.
HECUBA (he’-kew-ba): daughter of Dymas, Priam’s queen, mother of Hector, 6.300.
HELEN (he’-len): daughter of Zeus, wife of Menelaus, consort of Paris, her abduction by him from Sparta the cause of the Trojan War, 2.189. See note 24.35- 36.
HELENUS (he’-le-nus): (1) Achaean, son of Oenops, killed by Hector, 5.811. (2) Trojan, son of Priam, prophet and warrior, 6.88.
HELICAON (he-li-kay’-on): Trojan, son of Antenor, husband of Laodice, 3.148.
HELICE (he’-li-see): city or vicinity in the kingdom of Agamemnon, on the Cor- inthian Gulf, and sacred to Poseidon, 2.666.
HELIOS (hee’-li-os): the Sun, 3.331.
HELLENES (hel’-eenz): 2.780, people of HELLAS (hel’-as), a region in southern Thessaly, in the kingdom of Peleus and Achilles, 2.620.
HELLESPONT (hel’-e-spont): strait between the Troad and Thrace (the Dardanelles), 2.957.
HELOS (hel’-os): (1) city in Lacedaemon, 2.676. (2) City near Pylos in Nestor’s kingdom, 2.686.
HEPHAESTUS (he-fees’-tus): god of fire, the great artificer, son of Hera, husband of Charis, 1.687. See notes 1.712, 18.462, 21.378-79.