POLYPHEMUS (po-li-fee’ -mus): Lapith warrior of the generation of Nestor, 1.308.
POLYPHETES (po-li-fee’-teez): a Trojan captain, 13.916.
POLYPOETES (po-li-pee’-teez): Achaean, son of Pirithous, co-commander of the Lapiths from Argissa, 2.842.
POLYXINUS (po-li-xeye’-nus): Achaean, son of Agasthenes, co-commander of the Epeans, 2.716.
PORTHEUS (por’-thyoos): Aetolian hero, father of Agrius, Melas and Oeneus, grandfather of Tydeus, 14.141.
POSEIDON (po-seye’-don): god of the sea, son of Cronus and Rhea, younger brother of Zeus, 1.475. See notes 7.523-25, 11.892, 13.247.
PRACTIOS (prak’-ti-os): city on the Hellespont, 2.947.
PRAMNIAN WINE (pram’-ni-an): a wine often used medicinally, 11.755.
PRIAM (preye’-am): king of Troy, son of Laomedon of the line of Dardanus (1), father of Hector and Paris, 1.21.
PROETUS (pree’-tus): king of Argos (2), who plotted against the life of Bellerophon, 6.185.
PROMACHUS (pro’-ma-kus): Achaean, son of Alegenor, killed by Acamas (1), 14.559.
PRONOUS (pro’ -no-us): Trojan killed by Patroclus, 16.474.
PROTESILAUS (proh-te-si-lay’-us): Achaean, son of Iphidus, original commander of the men of Phylace, 2.796.
PROTNOËNOR (pro-tho-ee’-nor): Achaean, son of Areilycus, commander of the Boeotians, killed by Polydamas, 2.585.
PROTHOON (pro-thoh’-on): Trojan killed by Teucer, 14.602.
PROTHOUS (pro’-thoh-us): Achaean, son of Tenthredon, commander of the Thessalians from Magnesia, 2.859.
PROTIAON (pro-ti-ay’-on): father of the Trojan Astynous (2), 15.531.
PRYTANIS (pri’ -ta-nis); Trojan ally, Lycian killed by Odysseus, 5.778.
PTELEOS (pte’-Ie-ohs): (1) city in the kingdom of Nestor, 2.686. (2) Thessalian city in the kingdom of Protesilaus, 2.795.
PTOLEMAEUS (pto-le-mee’-us) : son of Piraeus, father of the Achaean Eurymedon (1), 4.261.
PYLAEMENES (pi-lee’-me-neez): Trojan ally, commander of the Paphlagonians, killed by Menelaus, 2.963.
PYLAEUS (pi-lee’ -us): Trojan ally, son of Lethus, co-commander of the Pelasgians from Larissa, 2.954.
PYLARTES (pi-lar’-teez): (1) Trojan killed by Great Ajax, 11.579. (2) Trojan killed by Patroclus, 16.814.
PYLENE (pi-lee’-nee): city in Aetolia, 2.733.
PYLIANS (peye’ -li-unz): 11.814, inhabitants of PYLOS (peye’-los), Nestor’s capital city and also the region surrounding it in the southwestern Peloponnese, 1.291.
PYLON (peye’-lon): Trojan killed by Polypoetes, 12.216.
PYRAECHMES (peye-reek’-meez): Trojan ally, commander of the Paeonians, killed by Patroclus, 2.960.
PYRASUS (peye’-ra-sus): (1) Thessalian city in the kingdom of Protesitaus, 2.793. (2) Trojan killed by Great Ajax, 11.579.
PYRIS (peye’-ris): Trojan killed by Patroclus, 16.496.
PYTHO (peye’-thoh): place in Phocis sacred to Apollo, later called Delphi, 2.609.
RHADAMANTHYS (ra-da-man’-tkis): son of Zeus and Europa, brother of Minos, 14.386.
RHEA (ree’-a): goddess, wife of Cronus, mother of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera and Demeter, 14.246. See note 14.244.
RHENE (ree’-nee): mother of the Achaean Medon (1) by Oileus (1), 2.830.
RHESUS (ree’-sus): (1) Trojan ally, son of Eioneus (2), king of the Thracians, killed by Diomedes, 10.503. (2) River of the Troad, 12.23.
RHIGMUS (rig’-mus): Trojan ally from Thrace, son of Piras, killed by Achilles, 20.548.
RHIPE (reye’-pee): city in Arcadia, 2.699.
RHODIANS (roh’-di-unz): 2.749, people of RHODES (rohdz), an island in the southeastern Aegean, settled by Tlepolemus (1), 2.749.
RHODIUS (roh’-di-us): river of the Troad, 12.23.
RHYTION (ri’-ti-on): city in Crete, 2.743.
SALAMIS (sa’-la-mis): island off the coast of Athens in the Saronic Gulf, the home of Great Ajax, 2.648.
SAMOS (sa’-mos): (1) island off the western coast of Greece (later called Cephallenia), near Ithaca in the kingdom of Odysseus, 2.728. (2) Thracian island in the northeastern Aegean facing Thrace, later called Samothrace, 13.14. See notes 13.14, 24.97.
SANGARIUS (san-ga’ -ri-us): river in Phrygia, 3.227.
SARPEDON (sar-pee’-don): Trojan ally, son of Zeus and Laodamia, co-commander of the Lycians, killed by Patroclus, 2.988.
SATNIOIS (sat-ni’-oh-is): river of the Troad, 6.40.
SATNIUS (sat’ -ni-us): Trojan, son of Enops (1), killed by Little Ajax, 14.522.
SCAEAN GATES (see’-an): the main gates of Troy, 3.174. See note ad loc.
SCAMANDER (ska-man’-der): river-god and chief river of the Trojan plain, so called by monals but called Xanthus by the gods, 2.550. See 20.88-89.
SCAMANDRIUS (ska-man’-dri-us): (1) Trojan, son of Strophius, killed by Menelaus, 5.54. (2) Alternative name for Astyanax, son of Hector and Andromache, 6.476.
SCANDIA (skan.deye’-a): city on Cythera, 10.315.
SCARPHE (skar’ -fee): city in Locris, 2.622.
SCHEDIUS (ske’-di-us): (1) Achaean, son of Iphitus (1), commander of the Phocians, killed by Hector, 2.607. (2) Achaean, son of Perimedes, a Phocian captain killed by Hector, 15.597.
SCHOENUS (skee’-nus): city in Boeotia, 2.587.
SCOLUS (skoh’-lus): city in Boeotia, 2.587.
SCYROS (skeye’ -ros): island in the central Aegean off the coast of Euboea, 9.816.
SEASONS: goddesses who keep the gates of Olympus, 5.859. See note ad loc.