Where they came from
Each person is placed at the home Homer gives them at the time of the action: for the Iliad, the place they came to Troy from; for the Odyssey, the place where they live. Captives are placed at their own homes (Briseis at Lyrnessus), and exiles at the home they came from (Patroclus at Phthia, with Opoeis noted). Where Homer names only a people, the person is placed with that people's home and marked as inferred. Dashed rings mark a region whose town is not known; an asterisk marks a modern identification of a Homeric place.
Drag to move, double-click or use + to zoom. Click a place for the people from it, and a name for that person's card.
Not on the map
People whose home Homer names but which cannot be located on a real map are listed here, with the people whose home Homer does not give at all.
Everyone who takes part
Click a row for the person's card: home, family, every line that names them, deaths, kills and speech.
| Name | Greek | Poem | Side · people | Home | Named | Kills | Killed by | Lines spoken |
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Who killed whom
| Killer | Side · people | Kills | Deaths | Kills : deaths | Killed by | Also |
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Kills and losses by people (Iliad)
| People | Side | Named dead | Named kills by its men | Kills : deaths |
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Every named death in the action, in order
| Line | Victim | Side | Killer | Helped by | How |
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Gods who kill, and unnamed dead counted by number
Deaths told of, outside the action
| Line | Who | Killer | Told by | Note |
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Who speaks
Lines of direct speech, counted from the DICES database of epic speeches and checked against the text. Direct lines are spoken in the poem's own scenes. Embedded lines are quoted inside another character's narration — the term narratologists use (Irene de Jong); the character who narrates is a secondary narrator. When Odysseus tells his wanderings, the words of Polyphemus, Circe or Tiresias that he quotes count for them, not for him, so nothing is counted twice. Lines in Odysseus' lying tales are counted but marked.
| Speaker | Direct | Embedded | Quoted by | Total | Speeches | In lies |
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Families, as Homer gives them
Every statement of kinship in the two poems, and nothing from later sources. A patronymic counts as a statement of fatherhood. Each link carries the lines where Homer states it; gods are in italics.
Images
The same data as images for sharing (3200 × 1800): the map of both poems, a map for each poem, the lists, who killed whom, who speaks, and the people not on the map.