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Honors English Final > Characters: The Odyssey > Flashcards

Characters: The Odyssey Flashcards

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Zeus

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all-powerful ruler of gods

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Poseidon

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  • god of the seas

- disliked Oysseus for blinding his son

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Athena

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  • goddess of wisdom

- helped Odysseus

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Hermes

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  • messenger of gods
  • son of Zeus and Maia
  • giant killer
  • guide of dead souls to underworld
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Aphrodite

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  • goddess of love/beauty
  • daughter of Zeus
  • wife of Hephaestus
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Hephaestus

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  • god of fire
  • great artificer
  • son of Hera
  • husband of Aphrodite
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Ares

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  • god of war
  • lover of Aphrodite
  • son of Zeus and Hera
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Artemis

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  • goddess of the hunt
  • daughter of Zeus and Leto
  • sister of Apollo
  • goddess of childbirth
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Apollo

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  • god of the sun
  • patron of the arts
  • god of archery
  • arrows are metaphor for plague
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Odysseus

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  • king of Ithaca
  • hero of story
  • Greek warrior at Troy
  • Telemachus’ father
  • husband of Penelope
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Penelope

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  • Odysseus’ wife
  • loyal, clever
  • outwits suitors
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Telemachus

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  • Odysseus’ son

- grows up during father’s journey

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Laertes

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  • Odysseus’ father
  • loyal
  • son of Arcesius
  • husband of Anticleia
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Eurycleia

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  • Odysseus’ old nurse
  • loyal
  • trustworthy
  • attendant of Penelope
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Eumaeus

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  • Odysseus’ swineherd

- loyal

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Philoetius

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  • Odysseus’ cowherd

- loyal

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Mentor

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  • Odysseus’ friend
  • son of Alcimus
  • impersonated by Athena
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Antinous

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  • leader of the suitors

- son of Eupithes

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Eurymachus

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  • another suitor
  • son of Polybus
  • killed by Odysseus
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Melanthius

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  • Odysseus’ goatherd

- disloyal

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Melantho

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  • Penelope’s servant

- disloyal

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Nestor

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  • King of Messenia
  • son of Neleus
  • oldest of Achaean chieftains
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Peisistratus

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  • Nestor’s son

- accompanies Telemachus to Sparta

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Menelaus

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  • King of Lacedaemon
  • son of Atreus
  • husband of Helen of Troy
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Helen

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  • Helen of Troy

- wife of Menelaus

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Circe

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  • woman on island

- changed Odysseus’ men into swine

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Calypso

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  • goddess/temptress on island

- kept Odysseus for 7 years

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Polyphemus (Cyclops)

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  • one eyed giant
  • blinded by Odysseus
  • son of Poseidon
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Teiresias

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  • seer (can see in the future) in Hades

- spoke to Odysseus about his future

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