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1
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Troy

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Home of the trojans

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Ithica

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Where Odysseus lives, near greece

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Phaecia

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Odysseus crashed on their island and The king and his daughter entertained him

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Hermes

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Messenger God

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Athena

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Goddesses of wisdom, helper of heros

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Zeus

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Kings of the Gods

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Calypso

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Witch/ nymph who wanted odysseus as her husband

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Helios

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sun god

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Poseidon

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God of the sea, has a lasting grudge against odysseus, called the earth shaker

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Antinous

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Ring leader of Penelope’s suitors

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Nausicaa

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Daughter of king alcinous, tall and beautiful

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Cyclopes

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One eyed monsters.

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Odysseus

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Faought in the war and was stranded on an island far from home. then takes a long journey home

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Menelaus

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famous greek king, brother of agamemnon

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Helen

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The beautiful wife of Menelaus, when she left with paris that is what started the trojan war.

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paris

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The man who took Helen to troy, and started the war.

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Lotus eater

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people who live on a land that has alot lotus.

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penelope

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Wife of Odysseus, the suitors are fighting over her.

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telemachus

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son of odysseus

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Anthropomorphic

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Having human characteristics

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monotheistic

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Belief in one god

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Polytheistic

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belief in many Gods

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Polyphemus

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Most powerful of all the cyclopians, son of poseidon.

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Anticleia

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Odysseus’s mother who died while he was away from Ithaca

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Argos

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Odysseus’s old hunting dog

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Demodocos

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Blind minstrel (Bard)

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Eumaeus

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Swineherd; a faithful servant of Odysseus

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Eurycleia

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Faithful old servant of Odysseus and his family

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Alcinous

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King of the Phaeacians

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charybdis

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Female monster who sucks in water and creates a whirlpool

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Circe

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Terrible goddess with lovely hair, who spoke in the language of men” ; daughter of Helios

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Nestor

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Terrible goddess with lovely hair, who spoke in the language of men” ; daughter of Helios

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Scylla

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Female monster with six serpent heads

34
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Sirens

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Sea nymphs whose beautiful voices lure sailors to their deaths against a rocky shore Teiresias: Blind Theban prophet

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Teiresias

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Blind Theban prophet

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