Achilles: A major figure of the Iliad and a major warrior of the Trojan War.

Agamemnon: One of the principal warriors of the Trojan War, and a figure of The Oresteia. As king of Argos, he led the Achean fleet to Troy; but when the fleet had been assembled at Argos, there was no favorable wind and Agamemnon, who had offended Artemis by bragging he was a better hunter than the goddess, learned that he was to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia so as to secure a favorable wind. Agamemnon tricked his wife, Clytemnestra, into letting her daughter go to her death. When Agamemnon returned from the Trojan War, Clytemnestra avenged Iphigenia's death by murdering her husband. Her son Orestes, in turn, killed both his mother and her lover. The Odyssey and later Greek drama raised the issue of which crime was worse, Clytemnestra's murder of her husband or her son's matricide of Clytemnestra, and concluded that the former was a more hateful crime.

Amor: Roman version of the Greek god of love, Eros. Although in Greek mythology Eros was one of the most powerful original divinities, he later appeared in the disempowered version of the boy-god Cupid.

Aphrodite: The Greek goddess of beauty, love, and fertility, Aphrodite is a later development of more ancient goddesses who unite in themselves such diverse powers as knowledge, authority, wisdom, love, and fertility. Examples are the goddesses Astarte, Inanna, or Isis. In Greek mythology, these powers have become split and appear as different goddesses.