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Odyssey characters
important charcters and their descriptions in the odyssey
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Odysseus | protagonist in the odyssey, husband of penelope and father of telemakhus |
| Telemekus | son of odysseus and penelope. grew up without a father and has to protect his mother from the suitors |
| penelope | wife of odysseus and mother of telemekus, a very strong and loyal woman. she waits 20 years for her husbands return and is constantly being abused by the suitors |
| Athena | greek goddess of war who often helps odysseus and his son in times of trouble |
| posiedon | greek god of the sea, makes it very difficult for odysseus to return home, is always working against him |
| Zeus | king of the gods and occasionally helps out odysseus |
| Antinoos | the leader of the suitors, the most mean out of all of them |
| eurymachus | the second leader of the suitors, very witty |
| eumaos | the swineherd who is very loyal to odysseus and took care of telemekus while he was gone |
| philoteus | cowherd who is also very loyal to odysseus |
| eurykleia | the head maid, very close with penelope and loyal to odysseus |
| melenthius | the goatherd who betrays odysseus and telemekus by helping the suitors in their last battle |
| calypso | nymph who keeps odysseus on her island for 7 years, is very in love with him |
| kirke | evil witch who turns some of the crew into pigs |
| laeretes | father of odysseus |
| tireseus | blind fortune teller of the underworld who helps odysseus when he comes to him, tells him his destiny and fate |
| helen | wife of menelaos, woman who started the trojan war |
| agamemnon | odysseus encounters his spirit in the underworld, a former king who was murdered by his wife when he came home from the war |
| alcinius | king of the phaikins, who kindly helped odysseus return to ithaka |
| menelaos | king of sparata and wife of helen, helps telemekus on his search to find his father |
| lotus eaters | group of people who live on a strange island, always eat strange flowers that make you not want to leave and keep eating |
| polyhemus | son of poseidon who is a cyclops and is stabbed in the eye by odysseys and his men when he traps them in his cave |
| sirenes | group of nymphs that try to lure sailors to crash their ships on their shores by singing haunting songs |
| kylla | 6 headed monster that eats many of the crew |
| charybdis | giant waterpool monster that swallows odysseus' ship and crew |
| laestrygonians | group of giants that eat some of the crew and pelt hilltops and some of the ships |
| kikones | people of an island called ismarus, odysseus and his men take their treasures and enslave their women. these people attack and kill some of the crew |
| Aiolos | kind king who is welcoming to the crew, gives them a bag of wind so they can return home faster |
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