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Troilus and Cressida - Characters in the PlayCharacters in the Play
Characters in the Play
Prologue
The Trojans
Priam, king of Troy
Cassandra, Priam’s daughter, a soothsayer
Troilus
Hector
Paris
Helenus
Deiphobus
Bastard

Priam’s sons
Andromache, Hector’s wife
Aeneas
Antenor

Trojan leaders
Troilus’s Boy
Troilus’s Man
Paris’s Servingman
Cressida
Calchas, her father
Pandarus, her uncle
Alexander, her servant
The Greeks
Agamemnon, the general
Nestor
Ulysses
Diomedes
Menelaus, brother to Agamemnon
Ajax
Achilles

Greek leaders
Helen, Menelaus’s wife and queen
Patroclus, Achilles’ favorite companion
Myrmidons, Achilles’ soldiers
Thersites, cynical critic
Diomedes’ Servingman
Other Trojans and Greeks, Common Soldiers of Troy and Greece, Trumpeters, Attendants, Torchbearers