In reality the Trojan alliance is made up of almost as many disparate elements as the Achaean. Hector and Priam have cemented a coalition of forces from the neighbouring states of the Troad and beyond, from as far north as Macedonian Paeonia and Thrace (today’s Bulgaria) to as far south as continental Africa. A ‘Catalogue of Trojans’ appears in Book 2 of the Iliad alongside the more exhaustive ‘Catalogue of Ships’. Over the course of the war, Prince Aeneas will lead the Dardanian allies;fn5 MEMNON of Ethiopia, Zeus’s son SARPEDON of Lycia, and PENTHESILEA, Queen of the Amazons, will fight for
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