Ordinary people caught up in the stories.
Father of Philoctetes. Stories differ on whether he or his son lit Heracles‘ funeral pyre and received the famous bow.
From Meliboea. Today: the coast of Magnesia, Greece.
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The Trojan War, Jason and the Argonauts
The baby son of Hector and Andromache, frightened by the plume on his father’s helmet in the Iliad.
From Troy. Today: Hisarlik, near Çanakkale, Turkey.
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Son of Prometheus. Warned by his father, he built a chest and survived Zeus‘s great flood with his wife Pyrrha.
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The loyal swineherd who sheltered Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, and helped him win back his house.
From Ithaca. Today: Ithaki, Greece. Some scholars think Homer’s Ithaca was nearby Kefalonia.
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The sources do not agree on, or do not name, Eumaeus’s family.
Greek who let himself be captured and told the Trojans the Horse was an offering to Athena. They believed him and pulled it into the city.
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The sources do not agree on, or do not name, Sinon’s family.
Wise Trojan elder who advised giving Helen back. In Roman legend he later founded Padua.
From Troy. Today: Hisarlik, near Çanakkale, Turkey.
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