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KING
OF
ITHACA

 

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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C
ONTENTS

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

 

F
OR
J
ANE

 

A
CKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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.

 

 

G
LOSSARY

 

 

 

A

Achilles


Myrmidon prince; later the principal hero of the Trojan War

Actoris


Penelope’s 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 Laertes’s 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 Odysseus’s 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

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