1.
Achilles
✣ Greatest warrior in the Achaean
army.
✣ He is invulnerable (except on
the heel) because his mother
dipped him in the River Styx as
a baby.
✣ In chapter nineteen, Achilles
returns to fight in battle and adamantly
strives to slain Hector because Hector
killed the cousin of Achilles, Patroclus.
2.) Hector
✣ Eldest son of the Trojan
king, Priam.
✣ Mightiest warrior in the Trojan
army and meets his match, Achilles.
✣ He is the first and only Trojan to
set fire to an Achaean ship,and he
kills Patroclus.
3.) THETIS
✣ Goddess of the Sea
✣ Mother of Achilles
✣ She is extremely eager to please
Achilleus, yet
tormented by the knowledge that everything
she does to help him—like convincing Zeus
to
favor the Trojans, or getting Hephaestus to
make him a new suit of armor—will only
end
up making his brief life even more
miserable.
4.) Agamemnon
✣ He is the brother of Menelaus of
Sparta
✣ When Helen ran off to Troy with
Paris, Agamemnon
called all the Achaeans together to help
Menelaus get
her back, and thus the beginning of the
Trojan War.
✣ He is married to Clytemnestra, the
twin sister
of Helen.
✣ He took the woman Chryseis as a
prize of war
and made her his concubine.
5.) Briseis
✣ She is a virgin priestess of Apollo.
✣ Briseis is then kept as a slave of
Agamemnon,
only to be returned to Achilles after
Patroclus
dies in battle.
✣ Even though she was a war prize,
Achilles
and Briseis fell in love with each other.
6.) Odysseus
✣ Odysseus was a son of Laertes, a
king
of Ithaca.
✣ He was a very faithful and loyal
husband
and father as he declined immortality twice
on
his journey just to get home to his wife and
son.
✣ He was a great warrior and very
charismatic leader who often inspired
his men.
II. CHAPTER TIMELINE
Thetis presents Achilles with the armor that
Hephaestus has forged for him. She
promises to look after Patroclus’s body and
keep it from rotting while Achilles goes to
battle.
Achilles walks along the shore, calling his
men to an assembly. At the meeting,
Agamemnon and Achilles reconcile with
each other, and Agamemnon gives Achilles
the gifts that he promised Achilles if ever
Achilles returns to battle. Agamemnon
returns Briseis.
Achilles announces his intention to go to
war at once. Odysseus persuades him to let
the army eat first, but Achilles himself
refuses to eat until he has slain Hector. All
through breakfast, he sits mourning his dear
friend Patroclus and reminiscing. Even
Briseis mourns, for Patroclus had treated
her kindly when she was first led away from
her homeland.

Then, Zeus sends Athena down to fill

Achilles’ stomach with nectar and ambrosia,
keeping his hunger at bay. Achilles then
dons his armor and mounts his chariot. As
he does so, he chastises his horses, Roan
Beauty and Charger, for leaving Patroclus
on the battlefield to die.Roan Beauty replies
that it was not he but a god who let
Patroclus die and that the same is fated for
Achilles.

But Achilles needs no reminders of his fate;

he knows his fate already, and knows that
by entering battle for his friend he seals his
destiny.