Who are the Greeks whom Odysseus meets from the Trojan War?
Agamemnon was the king of Mycenae, the son of Atreus, the brother of Menelaus, and the husband of Clytemnestra. Although each of the Greek heroes commanded the troops he brought with himself, Agamemnon was the leader of all the Greek forces at Troy. As recounted earlier in the Odyssey, he was murdered after returning home by his wife and her lover. Achilles is the son of Peleus (king of the Myrmidons in Thessalian Phthia) by the Nereid Thetis, grandson of Aeacus, great-grandson of Zeus. In Homer he is duly brought up by his mother, in close friendship with his older cousin Patroclus. To make her son immortal, Thetis anoints him with ambrosia during the day, and holds him in the fire at night, to destroy whatever mortal element he has derived from his father, until Peleus, coming in one night, sees the boy baking in the fire, and makes an outcry; the goddess, aggrieved at seeing her plan thwarted, deserts husband and child, and goes home to the Nereïds. According to a later story she di
