THESEUS (thees’-yoos): son of Aegeus, king of Athens, 1.309.
THESPIA (thes-peye’-a): city in Boeotia, 2.588.
THESSALUS (thes’-a-lus): son of Heracles, father of the Achaeans Phidippus and Antiphus (1), 2.775.
THESTOR (thes’-tor): (1) father of the Achaean prophet Calchas, 1.80. (2) Father of the Achaean Alcmaon, 12.456. (3) Trojan, son of Enops (2), killed by Patroclus, 16.477.
THETIS (the’-tis): sea-goddess, daughter of Nereus, married to Peleus and by him the mother of Achilles, 1.491. See note 1.1.
THISBE (thiz’-bee): city in Boeotia, 2.592.
THOAS (thoh’ -as): (1) Achaean, son of Andraemon, commander of the Aetolians. 2.732. (2) King of Lemnos, 14.276. (3) Trojan killed by Menelaus, 16.367.
THOON (thoh’-on): (1) Trojan, son of Phaenops (1), killed by Diomedes, 5.170. (2) Trojan killed by Odysseus, 11.499. (3) Trojan killed by Antilochus, 13.631.
THRACIANS (thray’-shunz): Trojan allies, 2.956, the inhabitants of THRACE (thrays), country north of the Aegean and the Hellespont, 9.5.
THRASIUS (thra’-si-us): Trojan ally, Paeonian killed by Achilles, 21.236.
THRASYMEDES (thra-si-mee’ -deez): Achaean, son of Nestor, co-commander with Antilochus of the Pylian contingent, 9.95.
THRASYMELUS (thra-si-mee’-lus): Trojan, charioteer of Sarpedon, killed by Patroclus, 16.550.
THRONION (thro’ -ni-on): city in Locris, 2.623.
THRYON (Ihri’ -on) or THRYOËSSA (thri-oh-es’-a): city in Nestor’s kingdom of Pylos by the Alpheus River, 2.684, 11.845.
THYESTES (theye-es’-teez): son of Pelops, brother of Atreus, 2.124.
THYMBRA (thim’-bra): city near Troy, on the Scamander River, 10.497.
THYMBRAEUS (thim-bree’-us): Trojan killed by Diomedes, 11.372.
THYMOETES (theye-mee’ -teez): Trojan elder, 3.176.
TIRYNS (tir’-inz): city in the Argolid, in the kingdom of Diomedes, 2.650.
TITANIOS (ti’-ta-nos): place or district in Thessaly, in the kingdom of Eurypylus (2), 2.837.
TITANS (teye’-tans): the elder gods, children of Uranus confined by Zeus in Tartarus, 5.1040. See notes 8.554, 14.244.
TITARESSUS (ti-far-es’-us): Thessalian river in northwestern Greece, tributary of the Peneus and a branch of the Styx, 2.853.
TITHONUS (ti-thoh’-nus): husband of the Dawn, son of Laomedon and brother of Priam, 11.1.
TLEPOLEMUS (tle-po’-le-mus): (1) Achaean, son of Heracles, commander of the Rhodian contingent, killed by Sarpedon, 2.748. See note 18.581-92. (2) Lycian ally of the Trojans, son of Damastor, killed by Patroclus, 16.496.
TMOLUS (tmoh’-lus): mountain in Maeonia, 2.978.
TRACHIS (tray’-kis): city in the Pelasgian Argos, near the Spercheus River in the kingdom of Peleus and Achilles, 2.778.
TRECHUS (tree’ -kus): Achaean ally from Aetolia, killed by Hector, 5.811.
TRICCA (trik’-a): Thessalian city, in the kingdom of Machaon, 2.831.
TROEZEN (tree’-zen): city in the Argolid, in the kingdom of Diomedes, 2.652.
TROEZENUS (tree-zee’-nus): son of Ceas, father of the Trojan Euphemus, 2.959.
TROILUS (troy’-lus): Trojan, son of Priam, killed by unidentified Achaean, 24.305.
TROJANS (troh’ -junz): people of the Troad and the allies of Troy arrayed against the Achaeans, 1.180.
TROS (trohs) : (1) ancestral king of Troy, son of Erichthonius, father of Ilus, Assaracus and Ganymede, great-grandfather of Priam, 5.247. (2) Trojan, son of Alastor (4), killed by Achilles, 20.523.
TROY (troy): capital city of the Troad, city of Tros and the Trojans, alternatively called Ilium, 1.152.
TYCHIUS (teye’-ki-us): leather-smith from Hyle who made the battle-shield of Great Ajax, 7.253.
TYDEUS (teye’ -dyoos): son of Oeneus, father of Diomedes, 2.482. See notes 4.433- 66, 5.926.
TYDIDES (ti-deye’-deez): “son of Tydeus,” patronymic of Diomedes, 4.429.
TYPHOEUS (ti-fee’-us): monster imprisoned beneath the earth by Zeus in the land of Arima, 2.891.
UCALEGON (yoo-kal’-e-gon): Trojan elder, 3.178.
WAGON: constellation, also called the Great Bear and the Big Dipper, 18.569. See note ad loc.
XANTHUS (xan’ -thus): (1) River of Lycia, 2.989. (2) River of the Troad, so called by the gods but called Scamander by mortals, brother of the river Simois, 6.5. (3) Trojan, son of Phaenops (1), killed by Diomedes, 5.170.
ZACYNTHUS (za-kin’ -thus): island off the western coast of Greece in the kingdom of Odysseus, 2.728.
ZELEA (ze-tee’-a): city in the northwestern Troad, 2.935.
ZEPHYR (ze’-fur): the West Wind, 23.224.
ZEUS (zyoos): king of the gods, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother and husband of Hera, father of the Olympians and many mortals too, 1.6. His spheres include the sky and the weather, hospitality and the rights of guests, the punishment of injustice, the sending of omens, and the governance of the universe, controlled to some extent by Fate as well. See notes passim.
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Homer
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