1 EURIPIDES' TROJAN WOMEN PREFACE, TRANSLATION, and ...

HELEN (HELL-en) married to Menelaus. Her abduction by Paris was reputed to be the
cause of the Trojan War.
HEPHAESTUS (heph-EYE-stus), god of fire and carpenter god.
HERA (HERE-rah), wife of Zeus and goddess of marriage.
HYMEN (HIGH-man), god of marriage.
LAOMEDON (lay-OMM-edon), early king of Troy, father of Priam, who cheated
Poseidon and Apollo of their payment in building Troy, and then again cheated Heracles,
who slew the sea-monster the gods sent to punish him. Father of Ganymede.
MENELAUS (me-neh-LAY-us), king of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon and married to
Helen.
ODYSSEUS (oh-DISS-yoos), king of Ithaca, one of the leaders who went to Troy.
OLYMPUS (oh-LIMP-us), mountain where the gods were reputed to live. Highest
mountain in Greece (northeast).
PELEUS (PEE-lyoos), father of Achilles.
PHOCIS (PHO-kis), country of central Greece, near Mt. Parnassus.
PIRENE (PIE-rene), sacred spring at Corinth. Pegasus, the flying horse, drank from it.
POSEIDON (Pos-EYE-don), god of the ocean, builder of Troy, who fought on the side of
Troy.
PHRYGIA (FRIDGE-ee-ah) where Troy was located, Asia Minor.
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