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Ajax the greater: The son of Telamon, who is also the father of the best Greek bowman, Teucer.

He makes some hard choices, like sacrificing his daughter Iphigenia at Aulis to provide wind for his ships' sails.

Agamemnon: Leader of the Achaean (Greek) forces and the brother-in-law of the beautiful Helen, formerly of Sparta, now of Troy.

He shows up with a much bigger part in the epic poem The Aeneid, by Vergil (Virgil).

Aeneas: The nephew of King Priam of Troy, a son of Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite.Achilles then went after the man he blamed for the death, Hector, the prince of Troy. Achilles brought his troops known as the Myrmidons, was insulted by the leader of the Achaean (Greek) forces, and was sitting out the war until his close friend Patroclus was killed. Achilles: The hero and subject of the epic poem.