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AS Classics: Literature > Characters in the Odyssey > Flashcards

Characters in the Odyssey Flashcards

1
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Who is Odysseus?

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The protagonist and King of Ithaca

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Who is Penelope?

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Wife of Odysseus and Queen of Ithaca

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Who is Telemachus?

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Son of Odysseus

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Who is Athena?

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Daughter of Zeus and goddess of wisdom

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Who is Poseidon?

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God of the sea and the hero’s main antagonist

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Who is Antinous?

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The most arrogant of Penelope’s suitors

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Who is Calypso?

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A nymph who falls in love with the hero

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Who is Polyphemus?

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Cyclops that imprisons Odysseus

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Who is Circe?

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A beautiful witch-godess who keeps Odysseus on an island for a year

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10
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The protagonist and King of Ithaca

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Odysseus

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Wife of Odysseus and Queen of Ithaca

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Penelope

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12
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Son of Odysseus

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Telemachus

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13
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Daughter of Zeus and goddess of wisdom

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Athene

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14
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God of the sea and the hero’s main antagonist

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Poseidon

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15
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The most arrogant of Penelope’s suitors

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Antinous

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16
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A nymph who falls in love with the hero

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Calypso

17
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Cyclops that imprisons Odysseus

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Polythemus

18
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A beautiful witch-godess who keeps Odysseus on an island for a year

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Circe

19
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Among the dozens of suitors, the only decent man seeking Penelope’s hand in marriage

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Amphinomus

20
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The aged and loyal servant who nursed Odysseus and Telemachus when they were babies

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Eurycleia

21
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The loyal shepherd who, along with the cowherd Philoetius, helps Odysseus reclaim his throne after his return to Ithaca

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Eumaeus

22
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Is well informed about palace intrigues and serves as confidante to her masters

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Eurycleia

23
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She keeps Telemachus’s journey secret from Penelope, and she later keeps Odysseus’s identity a secret after she recognizes a scar on his leg.

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Eurycleia

24
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The brother of Melantho

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Melanthius

25
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A treacherous and opportunistic goatherd who supports the suitors, especially Eurymachus, and abuses the beggar who appears in Odysseus’s palace, not realizing that the man is Odysseus himself.

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Melanthius

26
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Sister of Melanthius and maidservant in Odysseus’s palace

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Melantho

27
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She is having an affair with Eurymachus

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Melantho

28
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The beautiful nymph who falls in love with Odysseus when he lands on her island-home of Ogygia

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Calypso

29
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The beautiful witch-goddess who transforms Odysseus’s crew into swine when he lands on her island

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Circe

30
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Odysseus’s aging father, who resides on a farm in Ithaca

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Laertes

31
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A Theban prophet who inhabits the underworld.

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Tiresias

32
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Meets Odysseus when Odysseus journeys to the underworld in Book 11

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Tiresias

AS Classics: Literature (5 decks)

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