A Thousand Ships
A Thousand ShipsNatalie Haynes
Characters in A Thousand Ships
8 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Calliope (Greek mythology)
The muse who frames the book, telling the women's stories to a poet implied to be Homer.
Supporting characters
Creusa
A Trojan woman who wakes to find the city burning; she tells her own story.
Hecuba (Greek mythology)
Queen of Troy, whose story is told from the Trojan side of the war.
Penelope (Greek mythology)
Waits for Odysseus and writes to him in letters.
Briseis (Greek mythology)
A captive woman of Troy whose story is told in her own voice.
Cassandra (Greek mythology)
Trojan princess and prophetess.
Andromache (Greek mythology)
A Trojan woman facing capture by the Greeks.
Athena (Greek goddess)
One of the goddesses who narrate from the divine side of the war.