The War That Killed Achilles (47 page)
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Authors: Caroline Alexander
Achilles' use of
natural world,
Simoeis River(map)
singers, professional
Sipylos, Mount
Skamandros meadow,
Skamandros River (Xanthos)
Achilles' battle with,
Skyros
Sleep
snakes, snake imagery
Somalia
Song of Kumarbi,
Sophocles,
soul (life force)
Sparta(map)
Zeus-Hera deal and
spears
of Achilles ,
of Hektor
Spercheios,
Statius,
Stesichorus,
Strabo, xvii,
Styx,
Sun Maiden, abduction of
SwelénÄ
sympathy, in
Iliad
Iliad
tablets:
folding,
Linear B,
see
Linear B tablets
see
Linear B tablets
Task Force Tarawa,
Teichoskopia (Viewing from the Walls)
Telamon,
Tenedos
Tethys,
Theano
Thebes,
Theogenes of Rhegium
theogonies,
Theogony
(Hesiod)
(Hesiod)
therápÅn
(comrade, follower, retainer, henchman)
(comrade, follower, retainer, henchman)
non-Greek origins of term,
Patroklos as,
Thersites
Achilles' killing of,
etymology of name
mass desertion advocated by
origins of,
Theseus,
Thessaly(map) ,
Peleus in
Thetis ,
Achilles' armor and
Achilles' calling upon
Achilles' death and
Briareus and
children tempered by
destiny of,
Eos compared with,
keening of
marriage of ,
Niobe compared with,
Olympos visits of
Patroklos' body preserved by
Peleus' capture of,
plea to Hephaistos by
as savior of gods
shape-shifting of
Zeus and,
see subheadings under Zeus
see subheadings under Zeus
Thrace
Thucydides
Timarchus,
Tiryns,
Titans, Zeus' battle with,
Tithonos,
trade, of Mycenaeans
tragedy, of Achilles
treaties:
Hittite-Wilusa,
Near Eastern, Homeric agreements compared with,
tribute lists,
Trickster
tripods
Troad(map),
Aineias' descendants' inheritance of
description of
Lesbos and
Troilos,
Trojan Catalogue,
Trojan Horse
Trojan plain
Achilles' pursuit of Hektor on
battle for Patroklos' corpse on
description of physical damage to
epic poets' knowledge of
map of
Priam's crossing of
Trojans, Troy
Achilles' ship attacked by
aftermath of fall of
allies of,
Apollo as guardian of ,
assembly of
Dardanian Gates of
death of;
see also specific individuals
see also specific individuals
destruction of
Doloneia and,
elders of
excavation of,
fall of
flight of routed army to,
Hektor's funeral in
Hektor's return to
Hera's hatred of
history of settlement of
horses of
as local power
map of
Mycenaean pottery at
Odysseus' spying on
other names used for, xix,
palace citadel in
Poseidon's damage to
ruins of
sacking of,
Sarpedon's death and
siege of
Skaian Gates of
textile industry of
topography of,
walls of ,
wealth of
Zeus' sacrificing of
Zeus' turning of battle in favor of
see also specific Trojans
Trojan War:
Achilles' return to ,
Achilles' withdrawal from ,
aftermath of
causes of,
dating of,
divine intervention in,
see
divine intervention; divine rescue
see
divine intervention; divine rescue
end of
events outside the
Iliad
's parameters and
Iliad
's parameters and
far-reaching consequences of
hatred of
indifference to outcome of
Lesbos and,
meaning of
Paris' absences from ,
Peleus-Thetis wedding and
plot outline of
possibility of Trojan epic about
reality of
refugee memories and
as spectacle of the gods
as Total War
Western Empire's stories about
see also specific topics
Trojan War poems of the Epic Cycle ,
Trojan women ,
Athene's offering from
in Mycenaean inventories
Troy VI,
extent and significance of,
Tübingen, University of,
Turkey,
see
Anatolia
see
Anatolia
Tydeus
Ugarit,
Zeus and,
Underworld,
see
Hades
see
Hades
Uranus,
vase paintings,
Vietnam War
Virgil
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
warcraft,
war prizes,
Chryseis as
distribution of
warriors, war:
Achilles' denunciation of
Athene and
challenging of heroic view of
death of,
see
death and dying
see
death and dying
enduring prevalence of
essence of.
mothers of
speech “weaving” of
wolves as ideal for,
see also
Trojan War;
specific warriors
Trojan War;
specific warriors
war trauma
wealth
of Mycenaeans
weaving:
of Andromache
Athene and
of Helen
masculine vs. feminine ,
West Wind
White Island
widows
Wilusa,
wolves, wolf imagery,
women:
as booty or captives
burial of
concubines,
as gifts
rape of,
of Skyros
Trojan,
see
Trojan women
see
Trojan women
widows
work of,
Works and Days
(Hesiod),
(Hesiod),
World War I,
Christmas Truce in
Gallipoli campaign in
Mons battle in
wounds, wounding
of Achilles
of Agamemnon
of Aphrodite
of Ares
death from
of Diomedes,
of Hektor
of Patroklos
writing,
Xanthos (horse),
Xanthos (river),
see
Skamandros River
see
Skamandros River
Zeus ,
Achilles-Hektor combat and
Achilles' prayer to
aegis of,
Agamemnon's sacrifice to
Aineias rescued by,
all-seeing
Aphrodite scolded by
Ares held in contempt by
Athene's birth and
bovine forms and
Briareus and,
Deception of
delusional dream sent by
delusion and,
divine intervention forbidden by
divine intervention permitted by
Hektor's corpse and
Hektor's prayer to
Helen's descent from
Hephaistos thrown from Olympos by ,
Hera's pact with
Kronos overthrown by,
Leda raped by
meaning of name of
origin of Myrmidons and
punishment from,
resumption of power by
Sarpedon's death and
as storm god,
Thetis as savior of
Thetis' marriage and,
Thetis' plea for Achilles to
Thetis' pledge from
Thetis pursued by
Trojans' message from
zone, of Hera,
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