Summary and Analysis by Book

Book XXI

Agenor Trojan warrior, one of Antenor's sons. Saved from Achilles by Apollo.

hospitality the tradition of hospitality demanded that even enemies provide protection for guests and hosts. This tradition carries on into the nineteenth and even twentieth centuries.

locusts any of various large grasshoppers; specifically, a migratory grasshopper often traveling in great swarms and destroying nearly all vegetation in areas visited.

Lykaon son of Priam though not of Hekuba. He is killed by Achilles in a poignant scene.

Xanthus another name for the River Scamander.

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