1000 Classical Characters Briefly Described

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Thersites

A deformed Greek, in the Trojan war, who indulged in ridicule against Ulysses and others. Achilles killed him because he laughed at his grief for the death of Penthesilea. Shakespeare, who introduces Thersites in his play of Troilus and Cressida, describes him as a deformed and scurrilous Grecian."

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