Troilus and Cressida: List of Characters

List of Characters

1The Prologue
¶Helen, Menelaus's wife, now living with the Trojan Paris

The Trojans

¶Priam, King of Troy

¶Priam's Sons
5Hector, Priam's oldest son; major Trojan warrior
¶Paris, the abductor of Helen
¶Deiphobus, a minor lord, meant to swell a scene or two
¶Helenus, a warrior priest
¶Troilus, lover of Cressida
10Margarelon, Priam's bastard son

Trojan Commanders

¶Aeneas, Trojan warrior and herald
¶Antenor, captured Trojan warrior, exchanged for Cressida

Trojan Women

¶Cassandra, Priam's daughter, opposed to the war; damned by Apollo to clearly see the future, but whose forecasts are never to be believed
¶Andromache, Hector's wife
15Cressida, Calchas's daughter, beloved of Troilus; Pandarus' niece

Trojan Men

¶Calchas, a clairvoyant Trojan priest who has deserted his city and his daughter, and now advises the Greeks
¶Pandarus, Cressida's uncle
¶Alexander, Cressida's servant
¶A boy, Troilus's servant
20Paris's servant
¶Trojan soldiers, retainers, attendants

The Greeks

¶Agamemnon, General Commander of the Greeks, King of Argos, Menealus' brother
¶Menelaus, King of Sparta, Helen's forsaken husband
¶Achilles, famous hero of the Iliad; commander of the Myrmidons
25Patroclus, Achilles' ingle, a catamite
¶Ajax, considers himself the equal of Achilles
¶Ulysses, a machiavellian schemer, not big on hand to hand combat
¶Nestor, an old and venerable advisor to the Greeks, Ulysses' sidekick
¶Diomed, a lecherous Greek warrior, also called Diomedes
30Thersites, satirical rogue, a jester or fool to both Achilles and Ajax
¶Greek soldiers, retainers, attendants