MYNES (meye’-neez): Trojan, king of Lyrnessus, son of Euenus (1), killed by Achilles, 2.789.
MYRINE (mi-reye’-nee): Amazon after whom the gods named a mound that rises before Troy, 2.925.
MYRMIDONS (mur’-mi-donz): the people of Phthia, in southern Thessaly, ruled by King Peleus and commanded at Troy by Achilles, 1.212.
MYRSINUS (mur’-si-nus): city of the Epeans in Elis, 2.709.
MYSIANS (mi’-shunz): (1) Trojan allies living to the east of Troy, 2.970. (2) Thracian tribe, 13.7.
NASTES (nas’-teez): Trojan ally, son of Nomion, co-commander of the Carians, killed by Achilles, 2.979.
NAUBOLUS (naw’-bo-lus): Phocian hero, father of Iphitus (1), 2.608.
NELEUS (neel’-yoos): father of Nestor, former king of Pylos, 2.23.
NEOPTOLEMUS (ne-op-to’-le-mus): son of Achilles, 19.394.
NEREIDS (nee’-ree-idz): sea-goddesses, daughters of Nereus, 18.43.
NEREUS (nee’-ryoos): sea-god, the Old Man of the Sea, father of Thetis and of all the Nereids, 18.60. See note 1.1.
NERITON (nee’-ri-ton): mountain on Ithaca, 2.726.
NESTOR (nes’-tor): Achaean, son of Neleus, king of the Pylians, father of Antilochus and Thrasymedes, the oldest of the Achaean chieftains, 1.290. See note 9.73-75.
NIGHT: goddess who wields power over gods and men; even Zeus responds to her with fear, 14.313.
NIOBE (neye’-o-bee): Phrygian woman whose six daughters and six sons were killed by Artemis and Apollo, 24.708. See note ad loc.
NIREUS (neye’-ryoos): Achaean, son of Charopus and Aglaea, captain of the men from Syme, 2.767.
NISA (neye’-sa): city in Boeotia, 2.598.
NISYRUS (neye-seye’-rus): island in the southeastern Aegean near Cos, 2.772.
NOËMON (no-ee’-mon): (1) Troján ally, Lycian killed by Odysseus, 5.778. (2) Achaean, comrade of Antilochus, 23.681.
NOMION (no-meye’-on): father of the Trojans Amphimachus (2) and Nastes, 2.983.
NYSA (neye’ -sa): mountain on the island of Euboea, sacred to Dionysus, 6.154.
OCALEA (oh-ka-lee’-a): city in Boeotia, 2.591.
OCEAN: the great river that surrounds the world and the god who rules its waters, 1.505. See note ad loc and note 14.244.
OCHESIUS (o-kee’-si-us): father of the Achaean Periphas (1), 5.974.
ODIUS (od’ -i-us): (1) Trojan ally, co-commander of the Halizonians, killed by Agamemnon, 2.968. (2) Achaean herald, 9.204.
ODYSSEUS (o-dis’ -yoos): Achaean, son of Laertes, father of Telemachus, warlord of Ithaca and the surrounding islands, 1. 17 1.
OECHALIA (ee-kay’-li-al): Thessalian city of Eurytus (1), in the kingdom of Machaon and Podalirius, 2.688.
OEDIPUS (ee’-di-pus): son of Laius and Jocasta, king of Thebes (1), 23.756. See note ad loc.
OENEUS (een’-yoos): king of Calydon, son of Portheus, father of Tydeus and Meleager, 2.735.
OENOMAUS (ee-no-may’-us): (1) Achaean killed by Hector, 5.811. (2) Trojan killed by Idomeneus, 12.164.
OENOPS (ee’-nops): father of the Achaean Helenus (1), 5.812.
OETYLUS (ee’-ti-lus): city in Lacedaemon, 2.677.
OILEUS (oh-eel’-yoos): (1) Locrian king, father of Little Ajax, father of the Achaean Medon (1), 2.617. (2) Trojan killed by Agamemnon, 11.108.
OLENIAN ROCK (oh-leen’-i-an): landmark on the border of Elis, 2.710.
OLENUS (oh’-Ie-nus): city in Aetolia, 2.733.
OLIZON (o-leye’-zon): Thessalian city in the kingdom of Philoctetes, 2.818.
OLOOSSON (o-loh-os’-on): Thessalian city in the kingdom of Polypoetes, 2.841.
OLYMPUS (o-lim’-pus): mountain in northeastern Thessaly, the home of the gods, 1.51.
ONCHESTUS (on-kees’-tus): city in Boeotia, 2.596.
ONETOR (o-nee’-tor): father of the Trojan Laogonus (1) and priest of Zeus, 16.704.
OPHELESTES (o-fe-les’-teez): (1) Trojan killed by Teucer, 8.314. (2) Trojan ally, Paeonian killed by Achilles, 21.236.
OPHELTIUS (o fel’-ti-us): (1) Trojan killed by Euryalus, 6.23. (2) Achaean killed by Hector, 11.351.
OPITES (o-peye’-teez): Achaean killed by Hector, 11.350.
OPOIS (o’-poh-is): city in Locris. Patroclus’ birthplace, 2.621.
ORCHOMENOS (or-ko’ -me-nos): (1) city of the Minyans, in eastern central Greece, bordering on Boeotia, 2.601. (2) City in Arcadia, 2.698.
ORESBIUS (o-rez’-bi-us): Achaean, Boeotian killed by Hector, 5.812.
ORESTES (o-res’-teez): (1) Achaean killed by Hector, 5.810. (2) Son of Agamemnon, 9.171. (3) Trojan killed by Leonteus, 12.223.
ORION (o-reye’-on): constellation, the Hunter, 18.568.
ORION’S DOG: the star Sirius, 22.35. See note ad loc.
ORMENION (or-me’-ni-on): Thessalian city in the kingdom of Eurypylus, 2.836.
ORMENUS (or’-me-nus): (1) Trojan killed by Teucer, 8.314. (2) Father of Amyntor, 9.546. (3) Trojan killed by Polypoetes, 12.216.
ORNIAE (or-neye’-ee): city in the kingdom of Agamemnon, 2.662.
ORSILOCHUS (or-si’-la-kus): (1) Achaean, son of Diocles, killed by Aeneas, 5.624. (2) Trojan killed by Teucer, 8.314.
ORTHAEUS (or-thee’-us): Trojan captain, 13.916.
ORTHE (or’ -thee): Thessalian city in the kingdom of Polypoetes, 2.841.
ORTILOCHUS (or-ti’-Lo-kus): son of Alpheus, father of Diocles, 5.628.
ORUS (oh’-rus): Achaean killed by Hector. 11.352.
OTHRYONEUS (o-thri-on’ -yoos): Trojan, affianced to Cassandra, killed by Idomeneus, 13.422.