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The father of Priam was Laomedon.
His daughters :
Antigone
Hesione
Cilla
Proclia
Aethilla
Clytodora
Astyoche
His sons:
Tithonus
Bucolion
Thymoetes
Lampus
Hicetaon
Clytius
Medesicaste
Ganymede (sometimes his son, sometimes his uncle)
Podarces, afterwards called Priam*
(Note that all the brothers of Priam were killed by Heracles becasue Laomedon planned on sacrificing his daughter Hesione to Poseidon in the hope of appeasing him. Poseidon and Apollo had built the walls of Troy for wages and not been paid them; Apollo sent sickness and Poseidon a sea monster.
Heracles (along with Oicles and Telamon) rescued her at the last minute and killed the monster. Laomedon had promised them the magic horses as a reward for their deeds, but when he broke his word, Heracles and his allies took vengeance by putting Troy to siege, killing Laomedon and all his sons save Podarces, who saved his own life by giving Heracles a golden veil Hesione had made (and therefore was afterwards called Priam, from priamai 'to buy'). Telamon took Hesione as a war prize and married her; they had a son called Teucer.)
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Answer: According to the oldest version, there were 30 soldiers and two scouts inside the Trojan horse. Other sources put the number to 50, others drop it as low as 23. In the first version, the names of the warriors were recorded: They are the following: Odysseas (Ulysees)-King of Ithaca, he came up with the plan as well. Acamas, Agapenor, Aiantas (Ajax) the Lesser (King of Locris), Amphimachus, Antiphates, Cyanippus, Demophon, Diomedes (King of Argos), Echion, Epeius (boxer-he helped build the horse, yet he got the plans wrong and made it so tall the it would not fit through Troy's Gates! Lucky for the Greeks, the Trojans decided to knock down their gates so that the horse could pass through), Eumelus, Euryalus, Eurymachus, Eurypylus, Idomeneus (King of Crete), Machaonas, Meges, Menelaus (King of Sparta-husband to Helen of Troy), Menestheus, Meriones, Neoptolemus, Peneleus, Philoctetes (Thessalian prince), Podalirius, Polypoetes, Sthenelus, Teucer, Thalpius, Thersander, Thoas and Thrasymedes. Hope this helps.
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Apollo was a God on the Trojan side in the Trojan wars.
According to Homer's Iliad,
Book I: He sends a plague to the Greek camp because the daughter (Chryseis) of one of his priests, Chryses is not being returned to him by Agamemnon, the leader of the Achaians (Greeks). He later repeals the plague when Chryseis is returned.
Book IV: Apollo calls the Trojans to keep fighting and informs them that Achilles is not participating in battle.
Book XVI: When Glaukos is injured, he heals him and gives him courage to go back and fight. Glaukos then goes to fight with his comrades to retrieve the body of Sarpedon who was slain by Patroklos. He later pushes Patroklos back from Troy's walls three times and on the fourth tells him that it is not his destiny, nor Achilles's to sack Troy. Apollo then transforms himself into Hektor's uncle, Asios and encourages Hektor to fight Patroklos, saying he can win glory. Patroklos then accidentally hits Apollo, who was disguised; he then strikes Patroklos's helmet from his head, making him vulnerable & then breaks his body armour allowing Panthos and Hektor to kill him.
Book XXII: Apollo mocks Achilles for chasing him as he is mortal and not a God.
Book XXIII: Apollo puts a dark cloud/mist over Hector's body to keep the sun from it and keep it pure. During the Funeral Games for Patroklos, Apollo knocks Diomedes's whip out of his hand. Then during the archery competition, he doesn't allow Teucer to shoot the bird that he was aiming for, as he neglected to promise that he would sacrifice lambs to Apollo. However Meriones does promise this and Apollo grants that he shoots the bird.
Book XXIV: Apollo continues to guard Hektor's body, he speaks to the gods and tells them to stop supporting Achilles and make him give Hektor's body back to his wife and to the citizens of Troy.
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Antigone and Oedipus Rex are two famous plays that Sophocles [c. 496 B.C.E. - c. 406 B.C.E.] wrote. A third play, 'Oedipus at Colonus', isn't as well known as the other two. All three plays deal with the consequences of the tragic ignorance of Theban King Oedipus.
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In ancient Greek myth, heroes were humans, male or female, of the remote past, endowed with superhuman abilities and descended from the immortal gods themselves. In the Trojan war, the Greek heroes (according to Homer) were:
- Achilles - son of the mortal Peleus and the nymph Thetis. He is the major hero of Homer's epic The Iliad.
- Ajax - There are two men of this name, the greater and the lesser. The greater is the son of Telamon, who is also father of the best Greek bowman, Teucer. After Achilles' death, Ajax wants his armor thinking he deserves it as the second greatest of the Greek warriors.
- Odysseus - King of Ithaca, Trojan War fighter and strategist - he came up with the idea for the famous Trojan Horse. He is the main character of The Odyssey.
Other major Greek figures include:
- Agamemnon - Leader of the Achaean (Greek) forces and the brother-in-law of the beautiful Helen, formerly of Sparta, now of Troy.
- Diomedes - An Argive leader on the Greek side; wounds Aeneas and Aphrodite; routs the Trojans until the son of Lycaon (Pandarus) hits him with an arrow.
- Menelaus - Helen's aggrieved husband and the brother of Agamemnon.
- Nestor - king of Pylos. Since he was much older than the others on the Greek side of the battle, he had lived a full life before Troy and was too old to serve as much more than an advisor to the Greeks. As a younger man, he had been involved in the main heroic expeditions, the quest for the Golden Fleece along with Jason's other Argonauts, and the great Calydonian Boar Hunt.
- Patroclus - Beloved friend of Achilles who borrows his armor to go lead the Myrmidons against the Trojans. He is killed in battle, which results in Achilles re-joining the fray to kill Hector.
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