A-Z: General definitions
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- Ham
- Hamartia
- Hannah
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- Harlequinade
- Harriet Martineau
- Harrowing of Hell
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- Heavenly feast
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- Helen of Troy
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- Helios
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- Helmet of salvation
A-Z: General definitions: Helenus
Definition
Twin of Cassandra and son of Priam and Hecuba. Like Cassandra, he was a prophet, and with her warned Paris not to visit Menelaus, but was ignored. He fought to defend Troy, but when Paris was killed, he was angry that his brother Deiphobus won Helen as wife, and went to live on Mount Ida. Calchas told Odysseus to capture him, and Helenus then told the Greeks the oracles which foretold how Troy would fall to them, including bringing Philoctetes back to fight with them. The Greeks fulfilled all of these and took Troy.
Related Topics
Hecuba; Paris; Menelaus; Helen; Trojan War; Wooden Horse; Ida, Mount
Daughter of Priam and Hecuba of Troy. A true prophet fated never to be believed.
The most powerful and last king of Troy.
King Priam's chief wife. Mother of many children, including Hector, Paris, Helenus and Cassandra.
Son of King Priam of Troy.
King of Sparta, son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen.
An ancient city on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont; it was sacked by the Greeks after a ten-year siege.
Daughter of Zeus and Leda who was famed for her beauty; wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta; she was abducted by Paris and taken back to Troy, which led to the Greeks' siege of Troy.
Two mountains in Greek mythology.
The famous seer of the Greek army at Troy.
King of Ithaca, an island in the Ionian Sea, and famous for his cunning; the story of his ten year journey home after the Trojan War is the subject of Homer's Odyssey. (Roman name Ulysses.)
King Priam's chief wife. Mother of many children, including Hector, Paris, Helenus and Cassandra.
Son of King Priam of Troy.
King of Sparta, son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen.
Daughter of Zeus and Leda who was famed for her beauty; wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta; she was abducted by Paris and taken back to Troy, which led to the Greeks' siege of Troy.
A long struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans, recorded in Greek mythology but almost certainly based on real events.
A supposed offering by the Greeks to Athena which they filled with armed men; it was unsuspectingly brought by the Trojans into their city, an act of folly which resulted in their downfall.
Two mountains in Greek mythology.
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