Greek mythological slaves

In Greek mythology, Cassandra, also spelled Kassandra or Casandra, (; , , or referred to as Alexandra; ) was a Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo and fated by him to utter true prophecies, but never be believed. Cassandra lived through the Trojan War and survived the sack of the city, but was murdered by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus when Agamemnon brought her to Mycenae as a pallake.

thumb|280px|Andromache holding in her lap the urn with Hector's ashes, 2nd-century Roman sarcophagus in the Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum, Palermo.

In Greek mythology, Hecuba (; also Hecabe; , ) was the wife of King Priam and queen of Troy during the Trojan War. With Priam, she was the mother of the warriors Hector and Troilus; Helen's suitor Paris; and the prophetess Cassandra.

thumb|280px|Briseis, from the House of the Tragic Poet in [[Pompeii, fresco, 1st century AD, now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples]] thumb|right|Briseis and Phoenix (son of Amyntor)|Phoenix, red-figure kylix, 490 BC, [[Louvre (G 152)]]

mythical son of Priam

Greek mythological figure; daughter of Nycteus and mother of Amphion

thumb|Chryseis returned to her father (1771) by Benjamin West Chryseis (, , ) is a Trojan woman in Homer's Iliad, the daughter of Chryses. Chryseis, her apparent name in the Iliad, means simply "Chryses' daughter"; later writers give her real name as Astynome (). The 12th-century poet Tzetzes describes her task "very young and thin, with milky skin; had blond hair and small breasts; nineteen years old and still a virgin".

thumb|upright=1.4|Procne and Philomela carving up [[Itys, Temple of Apollo, Thermos, terracotta metope, c. 630–625 BC]] thumb|upright=1.4|"The Rape of Philomela by Tereus", engraved by Virgil Solis for a 1562 edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book VI, 519–562)

right|300px|thumb|Bonaventura Genelli, Odysseus sits by the fire as Eumaeus discovers Telemachus at the entrance of his hut. In Greek mythology, Eumaeus (; Ancient Greek: Εὔμαιος Eumaios meaning 'searching well') was Odysseus' doulos, swineherd, and friend. His father, Ctesius, son of Ormenus, was king of an island called Syra (present-day Syros in the Greek islands of the Cyclades). == Mythology == When he was a young child, a Phoenician sailor seduced his nurse, a slave, who agreed to bring the child among other treasures in exchange for their help in her escape. The nurse was killed by Arte

thumb|Auge and a drunken Heracles, bronze mirror case from Elis (city)|Elis (c. 325 BC). [[National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Stathatos 312.]]

mother of Theseus

thumb|280px|The marriage of Telamon and Hesione or Hesione's farewell to her brother [[Priam under the attention of Heracles and Telamon on the right, detail of fresco from the triclinium of the House of Octavius Quartio at Pompeii]] thumb|Heracles saves Hesione from the sea monster; 15th-century miniature In Greek mythology and later art, the name Hesione (/hɪˈsaɪ.əniː/; Ancient Greek: Ἡσιόνη) refers to various mythological figures, of whom the Trojan princess Hesione is most known.

thumb|Hypsipyle saving Thoas (king of Lemnos)|Thoas. In Greek mythology, Hypsipyle () was a queen of Lemnos, and the daughter of King Thoas of Lemnos, and the granddaughter of Dionysus and Ariadne. When the women of Lemnos killed all the males on the island, Hypsipyle saved her father Thoas. She ruled Lemnos when the Argonauts visited the island, and had two sons by Jason, the leader of the Argonauts. Later the women of Lemnos discovered that Thoas had been saved by Hypsipyle and she was sold as a slave to Lycurgus, the king of Nemea, where she became the nurse of the king's infant son Ophelte

wet-nurse of Odysseus

right|thumb|240px|Erysichthon sells his daughter Mestra. An engraving from among Johann Wilhelm Baur's illustrations of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poseidon can be seen in the lower-left background. In Greek mythology, Mestra (, Mēstra) was a daughter of Erysichthon of Thessaly. Antoninus Liberalis called her Hypermestra and Erysichthon Aethon. According to Ovid, she was married to the thief Autolycus.

daughter of Teuthras in Greek mythology

Odyssey character

list of mythical and historical people

daughter of Dolius in Greek mythology

thumb|The singer Phemius sings to the suitors. – Homer, Odyssey I. 325. Schwab, Legends of Classical Antiquity II. 208.|283x283pxIn Homer's epic poem the Odyssey, Phemius (; ), son of Terpes/Terpius, is an Ithacan poet who performs narrative songs in the house of the absent Odysseus.

thumb|right|Slaughter of the suitors of Penelope by Odysseus and Telemachus, assisted by Eumaeus and Philoetius. [[Campanian red-figure bell-krater, , Louvre (CA 7124)]] Philoetius (; ) is a character in Greek mythology who plays a significant role in Homer's Odyssey, aiding Odysseus, Telemachus, and Eumaeus in their slaughter of the suitors of Penelope.

daughter of Phegeus in Greek mythology