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Odyssey Characters
28 Characters in Odyssey
Term | Definition |
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Antinoos | First suitor to be killed. He plotted to kill Telemachus |
Achilles | Her of the Illiad and the Trojan War |
Agamemnon | Husband of Clytemnestra, killed after his return from Trojan War |
Alcinous | King of the Phaecians |
Anticleia | Mother of Odysseus |
Athena | Helps Odysseus return home, goddess of wisdom, crafts and battle |
Aeolus | Keeper of the winds |
Calypso | Keeps Odysseus on her island for 9 years |
Circe | Turns Argives into pigs, then warms them to avoid oxen |
Clytemnestra | Wife of Agamemnon, she killed her husband |
Eurylochos | Companion of Odysseus, persuades others to kill Helios' oxen |
Eurycleai | Faithful old nurse |
Eumaeus | Noble swineherd, faithful to his master |
Eurymachus | One of Penelope's suitors, second killed by Odysseus |
Helen | Wife of Menelaus, the cause of the Trojan War |
Helios | The Sun god |
Hermes | Divine messenger of the gods |
Laertes | Father of Odysseus |
Menelaus | King of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen |
Nestor | Gerenian horseman, king of Pylos |
Odysseus | King of Ithaca |
Penelope | Wife of Odysseus |
Posiedon | The Earthshaker |
Polyphemus | Cyclops, son of Poseidon |
Peisistratus | Son of Nestor |
Telemachus | Son of Odysseus |
Teiresias | Blind prophet now residing in Hades |
Zeus | Supreme god of Olympus |