Achaeans here, a collective name for all Greeks, including Ithacans.
suitors here, the men attempting to court Penelope.
Argive another term for Greek.
Pylos a seaport in the southwestern Peloponnesus in southern Greece, capital city of King Nestor.
Sparta inland city in southern Peloponnesus, located in Laconia, home of King Menelaus and Queen Helen.
pernicious deadly, destructive.
