List of Characters

1The Prologue
2Helen, Menelaus's wife, now living with the Trojan Paris

The Trojans

3Priam, King of Troy

4Priam's Sons
5Hector, Priam's oldest son; major Trojan warrior
6Paris, the abductor of Helen
7Deiphobus, a minor lord, meant to swell a scene or two
8Helenus, a warrior priest
9Troilus, lover of Cressida
10Margarelon, Priam's bastard son

Trojan Commanders

11Aeneas, Trojan warrior and herald
12Antenor, captured Trojan warrior, exchanged for Cressida

Trojan Women

13Cassandra, Priam's daughter, opposed to the war; damned by Apollo to clearly see the future, but whose forecasts are never to be believed
14Andromache, Hector's wife
15Cressida, Calchas's daughter, beloved of Troilus; Pandarus' niece

Trojan Men

16Calchas, a clairvoyant Trojan priest who has deserted his city and his daughter, and now advises the Greeks
17Pandarus, Cressida's uncle
18Alexander, Cressida's servant
19A boy, Troilus's servant
20Paris's servant
21Trojan soldiers, retainers, attendants

The Greeks

22Agamemnon, General Commander of the Greeks, King of Argos, Menealus' brother
23Menelaus, King of Sparta, Helen's forsaken husband
24Achilles, famous hero of the Iliad; commander of the Myrmidons
25Patroclus, Achilles' ingle, a catamite
26Ajax, considers himself the equal of Achilles
27Ulysses, a machiavellian schemer, not big on hand to hand combat
28Nestor, an old and venerable advisor to the Greeks, Ulysses' sidekick
29Diomed, a lecherous Greek warrior, also called Diomedes
30Thersites, satirical rogue, a jester or fool to both Achilles and Ajax
31Greek soldiers, retainers, attendants