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KINGOFITHACA
GLYN ILIFFE
KING OF
ITHACA
MACMILLAN
First published 2008 by Macmillan
First published in paperback 2009 by Pan Books
This electronic edition published 2009 by Pan Books
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Copyright Glyn Iliffe 2008
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
FOR JANE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My thanks go to my editor, Julie Crisp, for her persistence and faith in King of Ithaca, as well as her hard work in making this book what it is. I would also like to thank Professor Helen King of Reading University for providing notes and comments on the original manuscrips.
GLOSSARY
A 
Achilles
Myrmidon prince; later the principal hero of the Trojan War
Actoris
Penelopes body slave
Aegisthus
son of Thyestes; he murdered his uncle and foster-parent, Atreus, the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus
Agamemnon
king of Mycenae, and most powerful of the Greeks
Ajax (greater)
king of Salamis
Ajax (lesser)
prince of Locris
Alybas
home city of Eperitus, in northern Greece
Anticleia
queen of Ithaca; mother of Odysseus
Antiphus
Ithacan guardsman
Aphrodite
goddess of love
Apollo
archer god, associated with music, song and healing
Arcadia
region in the central Peloponnese
Arceisius
shepherd boy named after a former king of Ithaca
Ares
god of war
Argos
powerful city in the north-eastern Peloponnese
Artemis
hunter goddess, noted for her virginity and her vengefulness
Athena
goddess of wisdom and warfare
Athens
city on Aegean seaboard
Atreides
the sons of Atreus: Agamemnon and Menelaus
Atreus
former king of Mycenae
Attica
region of which Athens was the capital
C
Castor
Cretan prince
Cedalion
former apprentice of Hephaistos, taken by the blind Orion to act as his guide
chelonion
flower native to Ithaca
Clytaemnestra
daughter of Tyndareus and wife of Agamemnon
Crete
island to the south of Greece
Ctymene
sister of Odysseus
D
Damastor
Ithacan guardsman
Demeter
goddess of agriculture
Diocles
Spartan warrior
Diomedes
king of Argos and ally of Agamemnon
Dulichium
Ionian island forming northernmost part of Laertess kingdom
E
Echidna
monster with the upper torso of a beautiful woman and the body of a serpent
Elatos
chief priest of the oracle at Pythia
Eperitus
warrior from Alybas, exiled for refusing to support his father after he had murdered King Pandion
Epigoni
collective name for the sons of seven Argive heroes who led a doomed expedition against Thebes; the Epigoni, amongst them Diomedes, later avenged their fathers by laying waste to the city
Eumaeus
faithful slave to Laertes
Eupeithes
ambitious and treacherous Ithacan noble
Eurotas
Spartan river, named after the king who drowned himself in its waters
Eurycleia
slave to Laertes, formerly Odysseuss nurse
Eurytus
father of Iphitus
G
Gaea
earth goddess
Gyrtias
warrior from Rhodes
H
Hades
god of the Underworld
Halitherses
captain of Ithacan royal guard
Helen
foster-daughter of Tyndareus (actually fathered by Zeus); renowned for her beauty
Hephaistos
god of fire; blacksmith to the gods of Olympus
Hera
goddess married to Zeus
Heracles
greatest of all Greek heroes (otherwise known as Hercules)
Hermes
messenger of the gods; his duties also include shepherding the souls of the dead to the Underworld
Hestia
goddess of the hearth and protectress of the household
I
Icarius
co-king of Sparta, with his brother Tyndareus; father of Penelope
Idomeneus
king of Crete
Ilium
the region of which Troy was the capital
Ionian Sea
sea to the west of the Greek mainland
Iphitus
Oechalian prince who befriends Odysseus
Ithaca
island in the Ionian Sea
K
Kerosia
Ithacan council meeting
Koronos
wealthy Ithacan noble
L
Lacedaemon
Sparta
Laertes
king of Ithaca
Leda
unfaithful wife of Tyndareus
Locris
region in north-eastern Greece
M
Menelaus
brother of Agamemnon
Menestheus
king of Athens
Mentes
Taphian warrior
Mentor
close friend of Odysseus
Messene
city in south-western Peloponnese
Mycenae
most powerful city in Greece, situated in north-eastern Peloponnese
Myrmidons
the followers of Achilles
N
Neaera
Helens body slave
O
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