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| Collective name for all Greek people, including citizens of Ithaca |
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| Mightiest of the Greeks who fought in the Trojan War, and who invulnerable with exception of his heels; dressed as female to escape going to war |
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| Lover of Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife; conspires with her to murder Agamemnon |
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| Master of the winds; befriends Odysseus gives him bag of winds as gift |
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| King of Mycenae, husband of Clytemnestra, King killed at his homecoming by wife and her lover; Leader of Greek forces during th Trojan War; meets Odysseus in the Underworld |
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| Suitor killed by Telemachus; in the underworld talks to ghost of Agamemnon; reports suitors problems and blames Penelope: warned by Odysseus about deaths to come (when they were in Great Hall) |
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| Odysseus' mother who dies from grief and sadness while he was away on his voyage; Odysseus talks to her in the underworld |
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Ringleader of Penelope's suitors
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| God of archery, music, poetry,"god of the silver bow", son of Zeus and Leto, |
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| Goddess of love, daughter of Zeus and wife of Hephaestus, the blacksmith of the gods |
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| Queen of the Phaecians; King Alcinious' wife |
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| Another name for Achaeans |
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| Odysseus' faithful dog; shadow of death closed down on his eyes as soon as He recognizes Odysseus. |
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| Daughter of Zeus and Leto, sister of Apollo, goddess of the hunt; Penelope prays to Artemis to relieve her of her long suffering and to take her life |
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| Pallas Athena, "the bright eyed one", defender of Odysseus; goddess of wisdom and war; daughter of Zeus |
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| a sea-nymph who lives on the island of Ogygia, falls in love with Odysseus and kept him for 7 years on her island; claims gods are sexist |
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| Monster that swallows the sea in a whirlpool |
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| Monster in the form of a giant whirlpool, located across from Scylla |
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| Goddess of Aeaca, changes Odysseus' men into swine; strikes bargain with Odysseus, if he sleeps with her, she will turn the swine back into men (symbolic of women's view of men? men are pigs); Tells O. to go to Hades and gives directions; O stays with her a year. |
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| Queen of Argos, wife of Agamemnon, she and her lover conspire to murder her husband. |
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| Cannibal clan of one-eyed giants |
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| Blind minstrel; could represent Homer: NOT from royal family |
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| Loyal servant of Laertes and welcomes Odysseus back to Laertes farm; ironic because he is the father of Melantius and Melanthro |
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| Daughter of Proteus; helps Odysseus, tells him that her father is loyal to Poseidon but that he will not lie |
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| One of Odysseus' crew who dies; his ghost meets Odysseus in the underworld and begs him to give him a proper burial, Odysseus does this |
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| Attendant of Menelaus and Helen; resopnsible for strangers and taking care of guests horses ect. |
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| Faithful swineherd who helps Odysseus; one of the men who fights with Odysseus and Telemachus against the suitors; was a prince kidnaped and sold by his nurse; chooses to sleep with pigs. |
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| Father of Antinious the leader of the suitors |
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| Father of lead suitor, Antinous; killed by Laertes at end of story |
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| Old nursemaid who remained loyal to Penelope, Odysseus and Telemachus |
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| Odysseus' second in command; relative of Odysseus |
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| Suitor who throws a stool at Odysseus, the beggar; when confronted by Odysseus blames Antinious; second suitor to die |
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| Ithacan elder with prophetic powers; argues with the grief stricken crown, urges them not to fight Odysseus, says the suitors deserved what they got |
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| Wife of Menelaus;give's weeping dinner guests a drug; her face launced 1000 ships |
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| Queen of the gods, wife and sister of Zeus |
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| Messenger of the gods; gives O. moly as protection against Circe;summons the dead sould in Hades; tells Calypso to release Odysseus |
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| Real beggar who Odysseus meets near the the palace; wants to beat-up Odysseus |
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| Odysseus grief stricken father; married to Anticleia |
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| Man-eating, rock throwing, giant cannibals |
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| Drug addicted people visited by Odysseus and his men; men eat the plant/drug and forget memories of home; crew does not want to leave. |
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| Herald (messenger) of Odysseus |
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| One of Penelope's cruelest suitors; Odysseus' goatherd; turns on his master and supports suitors;Brings weapons to suitors; brother of Melanthro; son of Dollius; MEL=bad |
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| Penelope's disloyal maid; sleeps with Eurymachus/enemy-suitor; sister of Melanthious; daughter of Dolius |
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| King of Lacedaemon; husband of Helen; brothrer of Agamemnon |
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| Son of the king of the Taphians; friend of Odysseus; one of the disguises used by Athena |
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| Friend of Odysseus; one of the disguises used by Athena; MENTOR=advisor, guide, counselor, teacher |
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| Daughter of Alconous and Arete; meets Odysseus while she is bathing and doing laundry at the river with her maids |
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| Old and brave King of Pylos; father of Pisistratus;fought in the Trojan War despite his old age of 90 years and who advised Telemachus to visit Menelaus |
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| Protagonist; unable to return home after the Trojan War; cunning schemer, storyteller; pretended to be crazy to avoid going to war |
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| Odysseus' cunning, beautiful and faithful wife; Mother of Telemachus; temptress of suitors, weaves shroud for Laertes as deception; symbol of faith |
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| Faithful cow herd of Odysseus; one of the men who fights with Odysseus and Telemachus against the suitors |
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| Son of Nestor, King of Pylos; accompanies Telemachus to Sparta |
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| Cyclops outsmarted by Odysseus; son of Poseidon |
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| Antagonist; God of the sea, "Father Earthshaker"; father of Polyphemus, the Cyclops; brother of Zeus;carries a grudge against Odysseus for putting out Polyphemus' eye; punishes the Phaeacian sailors by turning thier ship to stone for aiding Odysseus |
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| Old mand of the sea; doesn't lie; father of Eidothea; Shape changer |
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| Island of the Phaeachians, place where Odysseus meets Naussica and her maids |
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| Frightful sea-monster with twelve feet and six heads, each with three rows of teeth. Below the waist her body was made up of hideous monsters, like dogs, who barked unceasingly. She is a peril to all sailors who passed near her. Whenever a ship passed, each of her heads would seize one of the crew |
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| Enchantresses of the Sea whose song can lure a sailor to his death |
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| Legendary figure doomed in the underworld to rolling a boulder up an incline and forever failing to surmount its crest, it rolls back down and he has to start all over for eternity. |
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| Capital city of Lacedacemon, home of Menelaus and Helen |
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| Name of the river in the Greek Underworld |
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| Legendary figure who tried to feed his son to the gods; punished in underworld to eternal temptation of hunger and thirst |
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| Blind prophet, the most famous soothsayer of ancient Greece; Odysseus meets him in the Underworld;tells him of his fate |
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| Son of Odysseus and Penelope;goes on journey to find news of his father; grows from naive young man to strong hero like his father |
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| Prophet who returns to Ithaca on the ship with Telemachus |
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| King of the gods, brother and husband of Hera; father of Athena; God of sky and weather, uses lightening and thunder as weapons; god of hospitality and the rights of guests and punisher of injustice, sends omens, supreme god who rules over gods and humanity |
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