The Odyssey
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AEOLUS: Custodian of the 4 winds
ALCINOUS: King of the Phaecians
ARETE: Queen of the Phaecians
ARGOS: Odysseus’s Dog
ATHENA: Daughter of Zeus / goddess of wisdom, battle, and womanly arts
CALYPSO: beautiful nymph falls in love w/Odysseus & holds him prisoner
CIRCE: Daughter of the Sun and Sorceress
CYCLOPS: Polyphemus - blinded by Odysseus
DEMODOCUS: poet who visits the Court of Alcinous
EIDOTHEA: prophetic sea nymph
ELPENOR: Friend of Odysseus
ETEONUS: Head servant to Menelaus
EUMAEUS: the loyal swine heardsman
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EURYCLEIA: old loyal servant who nursed Odysseus
HALITHERSES: Soothsayer
HELEN OF TROY: Wife of Menelaus and Queen of Sparta
HERMES: Herald of the Gods / Escort of the Dead
LAERTES: Odysseus’s Father
LOTUS EATERS: lazy people who lure others to their drug addicted lives
MAIDS: misbehaving naughty young women who should serve Penelope but don’t
MENELAUS: King of Sparta & husband of Helen, helped lead Greeks in Trojan War
MENTOR: Old friend to Odysseus
MUSE: one who inspires great art
NAUSICAA: Phaecian Princess who rescued Odysseus
NEOMAN: The man who lends Telemachus his ship
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ODYSSEUS: strong, courageous & cunning warrior - fought @ Troy now struggles to return
home. Penelope’s husband / Telemachus’s father / favorite of Athena - enemy of Poseidon.
ODYSSEUS’ MOTHER: died of a lonely heart
PENELOPE: Steadfast wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus
PHEMIOS: blind minstrel Odysseus’s house - fails to recognize him
POSEIDON: God of the sea
PROTEUS: a sea god
SAILORS: Odyesseus’smen
SIRENS: the bewitching sexy women who lure sailors to their death with their song
SUITORS: men who desperately want to win the hand of Penelope
TEIRESIAS: blind underworld prophet who shows Odysseus how to get back to Ithaca
TELEMACHUS: Odysseus’s son who has courage & a good heart but little confidence
ZEUS: King of gods and men
The Odyssey
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AEOLUS: Custodian of the 4 winds
ALCINOUS: King of the Phaecians
ARETE: Queen of the Phaecians
ARGOS: Odysseus’s Dog
ATHENA: Daughter of Zeus / goddess of wisdom, battle, and womanly arts
CALYPSO: beautiful nymph falls in love w/Odysseus & holds him prisoner
CIRCE: Daughter of the Sun and Sorceress
CYCLOPS: Polyphemus - blinded by Odysseus
DEMODOCUS: poet who visits the Court of Alcinous
EIDOTHEA: prophetic sea nymph
ELPENOR: Friend of Odysseus
ETEONUS: Head servant to Menelaus
EUMAEUS: the loyal swine heardsman
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EURYCLEIA: old loyal servant who nursed Odysseus
HALITHERSES: Soothsayer
HELEN OF TROY: Wife of Menelaus and Queen of Sparta
HERMES: Herald of the Gods / Escort of the Dead
LAERTES: Odysseus’s Father
LOTUS EATERS: lazy people who lure others to their drug addicted lives
MAIDS: misbehaving naughty young women who should serve Penelope but don’t
MENELAUS: King of Sparta & husband of Helen, helped lead Greeks in Trojan War
MENTOR: Old friend to Odysseus
MUSE: one who inspires great art
NAUSICAA: Phaecian Princess who rescued Odysseus
NEOMAN: The man who lends Telemachus his ship
ODYSSEUS: strong, courageous & cunning warrior - fought @ Troy now struggles to return home.
Penelope’s husband / Telemachus’s father / favorite of Athena - enemy of Poseidon.
ODYSSEUS’ MOTHER: died of a lonely heart
PENELOPE: Steadfast wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus
PHEMIOS: blind minstrel Odysseus’s house - fails to recognize him
POSEIDON: God of the sea
PROTEUS: a sea god
SAILORS: Odyesseus’smen
SIRENS: the bewitching sexy women who lure sailors to their death with their song
SUITORS: men who desperately want to win the hand of Penelope
TEIRESIAS: blind underworld prophet who shows Odysseus how to get back to Ithaca
TELEMACHUS: Odysseus’s son who has courage & a good heart but little confidence
ZEUS: King of gods and men