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the odyssey

The Odyssy Vocab

TermDefinition
Apollo god of poetry music and prophecy
Athena goddess of wisdom as well as war and peace
Cronus titan who ruled the unverse untl his son zeus overthrew him
Helios sun god
Hephaestus god of metal working
Hermes the messenger god
Posidon god of the sea enemy of odysseus
Zeus the most powerful god
Antinous one of Penelope's man suitors arrogant and mean man from Ithaca
Eumaeus Swineherd one of odyssyus loyal servants
Eurycleia Odysseus's old nurse
Eurymachus Suitor of penelope
Eurynome Penelopes housekeeper
Penelope Odysseus's faithful wife
Philoeteus Cowherd one of Odysseus's Loyal servants
telemachus Odysseus's son
Aeaea Home of Circe the enchantress and goddess
Alcinous King of phaeacia Odysseus tells the story of Alcinous's court
Calypso beautiful nymph goddess who keeps odysseus on her island fer 7 years
Charybdis Female monster who sucks in water three times a day to form a deadly whirlpool
Cicones People living on the southwestern coast of thrace who battles Odysseus and his men on his journey
Circe Enchantress and goddess who turns on Odysseus's men to swine
Cyclops See Polyphemus
Erebus Dark area of the underworld where the dead reside
Eurylochus a member of Odysseus's loyal crew
Lotus eaters People who feed Odysseus's men lotus plants to make them forget Ithaca
phaeacia Island kingdom ruled by King Alcinous
Polyphemus son of the sea god Poseidon and blinded by Odysseus.
Cyclops one of a race of Brutish one eyed giant
Cyclopes Cyclops who live solitary lives as shepherds supposedly on the island now known as Sicily
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