Characters: 

Major Characters

• Troilus: (Protagonist & Hero). Son of Trojan King Priam.
• Criseyde: (Heroine) Troilus's beloved. A widow and daughter of Calchas.
• Pandarus: Criseyde's uncle, Narrator.

• Diomedes: Criseyde's lover in the Greek camp. Greek warrior.
• Calchas: A soothsayer, father of Criseyde.
• Hector: A Trojan Warrior, Troilus's brother.

• Antenor: A general of Troy, Trojan lord.
• Achilles: Great Greek soldier who killed Troilus. 

• Priam: King of Troy.
• Deiphobus: Elder brother of Troilus
• Fate: Antagonist
• Cassandra: Daughter of Priam, a prophetess at the temple of Apollo
• Paris: Prince of Troy, lover of Helen
• Helen: Wife to Menelaus, lover of Paris
• Cupid: God of Love (Greek name is Eros)