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Odyssey Review
Characters,places and events from The Odyssey
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Achilles | Biggest hero of the Trojan war |
| Agamemnon | Menelaus’s brother who was killed by his wife’s lover when he returned from Troy |
| Alcinoos | The King of Phaeceia |
| Anticleia | Odysseus’s mother |
| Antinoos | The leader of the suitors |
| Argos | Odysseus’ faithful dog |
| Athena | Goddess of wisdom; Odysseus is her favorite mortal |
| Calypso | Minor goddess who keeps Odysseus on her island Ogygia |
| Charybdis | Sea monster whirlpool |
| Eumaeus | Odysseus’s swineherd |
| Eurycleia | An old servant maid who helped raise Odysseus |
| Eurylochus | Odysseus’s captain (2nd in charge) |
| Helen of Troy | Menelaus’s wife; she ran away with Paris of Troy and sparked the Trojan War |
| Helios | Sun God |
| Hermes | The messenger god |
| Laertes | Odysseus’s father |
| Lotus Eaters | A group of people who consume a special plant that produces euphoria |
| Menelaus | King of Sparta |
| Odysseus | The hero or protagonist of the story; struggles with humility |
| Penelope | Odysseus’s wife and Telemachus’s mother; Queen of Ithaca |
| Polyphemus | son of the god Poseidon who cursed Odysseus after he was blinded |
| Poseidon | God of the sea and father of the Cyclopes |
| Scylla | 6 headed creature who devoured six of Odysseus's companions |
| Sirens | half bird half woman monsters who lured sailors with their singing to shipwreck on the coast of their island |
| Telemachus | Odysseus’s son |
| The Cicones | The first group of people Odysseus encounters after leaving Troy |
| The Cyclopes | One-eyed monsters and children of Poseidon |
| Tiresias | A prophet who resides in Hades |
| Zeus | King of the gods |
| Ithaca | Odysseus’s homeland |
| Troy | The city that the Greek soldiers besieged for ten years |
| Land of the Lotus Eaters | Here people eat a flower, which makes them forget about their home |
| Phaeaceia | Odysseus tells his story to the people of this land; they return him to Ithaca |
| Land of the Dead | Where Circe tells Odysseus he must go to speak to Tiresias |
| An epic hero | A character whose actions are inspiring and noble |
| An epic | A long narrative story or poem that tells the adventures of a hero or god |
| Homer | The blind poet who is believed to have been the creator of The Odyssey |
| The Trojan War | The Odyssey tells the Story of Odysseus journey home from this war |
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