Characters Flashcards
Kings of Ithaca
Odysseus
Odysseus’s wife
Penelope
Odysseus’s son
Telemachus
Goddess of wisdom, skill, and warfare; Odysseus’s helper
Athena
King of the Phaecians, to whom Odysseus tells the story
Alcinous
Odysseus’s father
Laertes
Giant with one eye on forehead
Cyclops
god of music, poetry, prophesy, and medicine
Apollo
Father of all the gods
Zeus
King and leader of all Greek forces
Agamemnon
god of sea, earthquakes, horses, and storms at sea
Poseidon
Cyclops whom imprisons Odysseus and is Poseidon’s son
Polyphemus
Wizard who foretold Polyphemus his fortune about Odysseus taking out his eye
Telemus
Telemus’s dad
Eurymus
Titan who was ruler of the universe until he was overthrown by his son Zeus
Cronus
Messenger of the gods; only thing that could go in and out of hell
Hermes
Sun god
Helios
Enchantress
Circes
King of wind
Aeolus
was a man of Odysseus who fell of Circes’s roof
Elpenor
Odysseus’s mom
Anticlea
the daughter of Zeus and the harvest-goddess Demeter, and queen of the underworld.
Persephone
Spirit wizard prince of Thebes whom Odysseus meets at the land of the dead
Tiresias
“She has twelve mis-shapen feet, and six necks of the most prodigious length”
Scylla
