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Odyssey Characters
Question | Answer |
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Aeolus | Keeper of the winds |
Antinoos | First suitor to be killed he plotted to kill Telemachus |
Achilles | Hero of the Iliad and Trojan war |
Agamemnon | Husband of Clytenastra , killed after his return from Trojan war |
Alcinous | King of Phaeacians |
Anticleia | Mother of Odysseus |
Athena | Helps Odysseus return home, goddess of wisdom, crafts and battle |
Calypso | Keeps Odysseus on her island for nine years |
Circe | Turns Argives into pigs, then warns them to avoid oxen |
Clytenastra | Wife of Agamemnon, killed her husband |
Eurylochos | Companion of Odysseus , persuades others to kill Helios’ oxen |
Euryleia | Faithful old nurse |
Eumaeus | Noble swineherd, faithful to his master |
Eurymachus | One of Penelope’s suitors, second killed by Odysseus |
Helen | Wife of menelaus, cause of Trojan war |
Helios | The sun god |
Hermès | Divine messenger of the gods |
Laertes | Father of Odysseus |
Menelaus | King of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen |
Nestor | Gerenian horseman p, king of Pylos |
Odysseus | King of Ithaca |
Penelope | Wife of Odysseus |
Poseidon | The earth shaker |
Polyphemus | Cyclopes, son of Poseidon |
Peisistratus | Son of Nestor |
Telemachus | Son of Odysseus |
Teiresais | Blind prophet now residing in hades |
Zues | Supreme god of Olympus |