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Odyssey Review
Characters,places and events from The Odyssey
Question | Answer |
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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 |