Heroes

Mycenaeans: this name given to these people in the 19th century; the Mycenaeans disappeared without a trace; it took quite awhile to "discover" them.

• Homer (poet several hundred years after the end of the Late Bronze Age):
• Achaeans
• Danaans
• Argives
• Bronze Age:
• Achaioi
• Danaoi
• Argeioi
  

Tragedians:

• Aeschylus: took part in Battle at Salamis, 480 BC
• Sophocles: took part in victory parade, 480 BC; he would have been about 17 years old
• Euripides: born in Salamis that very day in 480 BC

Other classical Greek playwrights:

• Aristophanes: 

Historians:

• Pausania, 160 AD; Roman traveler

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Britain

Adam --> Noah --> Priam of Troy --> Aeneas --> Ascanius --> Silvius --> Brutus
Brutus: brother of Aenus (founder of Rome) or the great-grandson of Aeneus
Aeneas: Trojan; founder of Rome
Brutus: Trojan: found of Britain (Brutus --> Brittani --> Britain)
p. 291, Bettany Hughes

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Iphigenia
Sparta

Said to be daughter of Agamemnon + Clytemnestra

• However, remember the rape of Helen by Theseus -- the old king, the 12-year-old Helen?
• Some say the love-child of Theseus + Helen --> Iphigenia
• Helen's family gives up Iphigenia to be raised by Clytemnestra
• That makes sense; the rape story had to have had some "physical" basis/proof; a love-child would be the proof
• Three of the most powerful Greek tragedies center on Iphigenia's fate:
• Aeschylus: Agamemnon
• Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis
• Euripides: Iphigenia Among The Taurians