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| Former King of Mycenae; Atrius' son; murdered by wife |
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| Phaeacian King; offers hospitality and safe passage to Ithaca to Odysseus |
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| Odysseus' mother; Laertes' wife; sees Odysseus in Hades |
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| Phaeacian Queen; Alcinous' wife; Nausicaa's mother |
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| gets drunk and falls of Circe's roof; tells Odysseus in Hades to give proper burial |
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| Odysseus' nursemaid; keeps Odysseus' identity secret when sees scar on leg |
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| 2nd in command; undermines Odysseus; stirs up trouble |
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| Odysseus' father; lives on farm in Ithaca |
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| King of Sparta; Agamemnon's brother |
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| King Alcinous daughter; finds Odysseus on a beach; Princess of Phaeacia |
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| King of Pylos; visited by Telemachus |
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| fought in Troy; trying to return to Ithaca; Penelope's husband |
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| Odysseus' wife; faithful; refuses to believe husband dead; clever with burial shroud |
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| Odysseus' son; heir to throne in Ithaca; hasn't seen father since infant |
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| Theban prophet; Odysseus looks for in underworld; tells Odysseus how to get home |
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| Zeus' daughter; goddess of wisdom, defensive war, and crafts; helps Odysseus and his family |
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| nymph; loves Odysseus and holds captive; lives on Ogygia; Atlas' daughter |
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| sea monster; creates whirlpools; Strait of Messina |
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| enchantress; lives on Aeaea; daughter of Helios; turns crew into swine |
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| messenger of gods; tells Calypso to let Odysseus go |
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| Cyclops; Poseidon's son; blinded by Odysseus |
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| god of sea; son of Kronos and Rhea; makes Odysseus journey home hard |
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| sea monster on Strait of Messina; like a rocky cliff |
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| sing seductively; enchantresses; try to lure Odysseus to their island |
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| King of gods; son of Kronos and Rhea |
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| collective name for the Greeks |
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| Thracian tribe; raided by Odysseus' crew; Trojan allies |
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| land of dead; underworld; god of underworld |
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| Odysseus' homeland; island west of Greece |
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| home of the gods; mountain |
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| ship-builders; developed culture; Alcinous' people |
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| Nestor's land; southwestern peloponese |
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| Phaeacian land; also called Phaeacia |
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| Menelaus' land; in Peloponese |
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| where Odysseus leaving; sacked by Achaeans; also called Ilium |
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