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| Son of Laertes and Anticleia; king of Ithica; Husband of Penelope; father of Telemachus; cleverest and most cunning of the ancient heroes |
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| Son of Peleus and Thetis; the greatest of the Greek warriors at Troy; slain by Paris after killing Hector |
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| Circe's isle; Odysseus remained there for one year on his journey home |
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| Divine Guardian of the winds; gave Odysseus a bag full of all the winds of the world except the gentle west wind |
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| King of Mycenae and Commander-in-Chief of the Greek forces at Troy; murdered by his wife when he returned home from Troy |
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| King of the Phaeacians, father of Nausicaa; assisted Odysseus' return to Ithaca |
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| Mother of Odysseus; wife of Laertes; killed herself at the apparent loss of her son |
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| The most arrogant and haughtiest of the Suitors |
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| Goddess of Love and Beauty; ally of the Trojans |
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| Queen of the Phaeacians and mother of Nausicaa |
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| Odysseus' faithful dog; died when he recognized his master had returned home |
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| Goddess of wisdom and daughter of Zeus; Odysseus' patroness and protectress; ally of the Greeks |
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| Nymph who rescued Odysseus from the sea; kept him with her for seven years and offered to make him immortal. |
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| Trojan princess who always told the truth but no one ever believed her. |
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| A sea monster who produced frightful whirlpools; one of the dangers encountered by Odysseus on his way home |
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| Achilles maiden that caused he and Agamemnon to quarrel |
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| Inhabitants of Thrace; Odysseus sacked their principal city, Ismarus, after he sailed from troy |
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| Enchantress who turned Odysseus' men into pigs; with hermes aid Odysseus overcame her powers |
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| Monstrous creatures with one eye |
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| Blind bard of the Phaeacians whose songs related to the events of the Trojan war |
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| A member of Odysseus' crew who died falling from the roof of Circe's palace |
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| A faithful swineherd who assisted Odysseus' return to Ithaca |
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| A loyal nurse who was the first to recognize Odysseus |
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| Odysseus' lieutenant of the voyage home; Killed by Zeus after slaughtering the Oxen of Helios |
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| One of the principal suitors |
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| Lady of Discord; not invited to Peleus' and Thetis' wedding |
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| Daughter of Zeus and Leda; the most beautiful woman in the world; wife of Menelaus; lover of Paris |
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| God of the sun who kept a herd of sacred oxen on the Island of Thrinacia |
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| Divine blacksmith of the Gods; husband of Aphrodite |
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| Divine messenger of the Gods; god of the thieves and businessman |
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| Blind poet who is said to have composed the Iliad and Odyssey |
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| Nereid wearing a green veil. Gave Odysseus the veil - it could not sink |
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| A beggar in Odysseus' palace on Ithaca |
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| Odysseus' island kingdom off the west coast of the Greek mainland |
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| Cannibals who destroyed all but one of Odysseus' ships |
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| A tribe of people who were addicted to the lotus plant; anyone consuming the lotus lost all sense of duty and responsibility |
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| King of Sparta; brother of Agamemnon; Husband of Helen |
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| Trusted friend and advisor of Odysseus and Telemachus |
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| The warriors who accompanied Achilles to Troy |
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| Princess of Phaeacia who assisted Odysseus after he was washed up on her land |
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| Homer's poem dealing with Odysseus' return to Ithaca after the Trojan war |
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| The island Paradise of the nymph Calypso |
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| Trojan Prince whose affair with Helen ignited the Trojan war |
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| Son of Nestor who accompanied Telemachus to Sparta |
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| Faithful wife to Odysseus and Mother of Telemachus |
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| The people of Scheria who listened to the story of Odysseus' wanderings and assisted him to return home |
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| Loyal herdsman who helps Odysseus destroy the Suitors |
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| A cyclops who was a son of Poseidon, blinded by Odysseus |
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| A six-headed monster who attacked Odysseus' crew during their journey home |
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| Sea nymphs whose song lured sailors to their deaths |
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| A blind seer whose spirit Odysseus met in the Underworld |
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| Son of Odysseus and Penelope |
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| The island where Helios grazed his sacred Oxen. belongs to Hyperion, Sun Titan |
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