Homeric Characters

Agamemnon , haughty and imperious; Achilles , brave, impatient of command, and relentle ; Diomed , brave as Achilles, but obedient to authority; Ajax the Greater , a giant in stature, fool-hardy, arrogant, and conceited; Nestor , a sage old man, garrulous on the glories of his youthful days; Uly es , wise, crafty, and arrogant; Patroclos , a gentle friend; Thersites , a scurrilous demagogue. Hector , the protector and father of his country, a brave soldier, an affectionate husband, a wise counsellor, and a model prince; Sarpedon , the favorite of the gods, gallant and generous; Paris , a gallant and a fop; Troilus , “the prince of chivalry;” Priam , a broken-spirited old monarch. Helen , a heartle beauty, faithle , and fond of pleasure; Androm´achê , a fond young mother and affectionate wife; Cas sandra , a querulous, croaking prophete ; Hecuba , an old she-bear robbed of her whelps.