Terms, characters and events from Homer's Odyssey
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| Odysseus | Main character
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| Penelope | Odysseus's wife
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| Telemakhos | Odyseeus's son
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| Athena | Godess of wisdom, helps Odysseus get home
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| Zeus | King of the gods
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| Poseidon | God of the sea, tries to stop Odysseus from getting home because Odysseus killed his son
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| Kalypso | Godess who keeps Odysseus prisoner
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| Kirke | Turns Odysseus's men into pigs, Odysseus stays at her house for one year
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| Skylla | Monster with six heads who eats six of Odysseus's men
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| Charybdis | Creature who sucks in water and makes a whirlpool
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| Ithaka | Odysseus's home
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| Aiolos | Guy who gives Odysseus winds in a bag
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| Xenia | Greek code of hospitality
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| Polyphemos | Cyclops who was Poseidon's son
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| Laertes | Odysseus's dad
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| Eurykeia | Old maid, first one to recognize Odysseus
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| Helios | Sun god, Odysseus's men eat his cattle
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| Ogygia | Kalypso's island
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| Nausikaa | Princess that Athena sent to wash clothes by the river.
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| Antinoös | Leader of the suitors
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| Agamemnon | Goes out to war, comes home and is killed by his wife and lover
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| Klytaimnestra | Agamemnon's wife
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| Aigisthos | Killed Agamemnon
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| Hermes | Messenger god
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| The Lotus Eaters | Eat lotus flowers (containing opium) and are happy
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| The Sirens | Girls who lure Odysseus but he has his men wear ear plugs
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| Alkinoös | King of Phaiakians, Skheria
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| Melánthios | goatherd, helps the suitors get weapons
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| Phemios | Ministrel in Odysseus's hall
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| Olympos | Mountain of the gods
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| Eumaios | Swineherd
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| Arete | Alkinoös's neice and wife
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| Nestor | King of Pylos
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| Skheria | Island of Phaiakians
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| Pylos | Island of Nestor, first place Telemakhos went to check for his father
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| Menelaos | Helen's husband, "red-haired king"
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| Helen of Troy | Menelaos's wife, essentially starts the Trojan War
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| Elpenor | One of Odysseus's men who fell off Kirke's roof and died
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| Teiresias | Prophet in underworld
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| Nausithoos | Home of Nausikka
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