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Odessey Flashcards

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Odysseus

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Main Character; Trojan War

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Telemachus

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Odysseus’s Son

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Penelope

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Odysseus’s Wife

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Laertes

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Odysseus’s Father

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Nestor

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The king who Telemachus first meets trying to find his dad; gave chariots to Telemachus

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Pisistratus

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Youngest son of Nestor; traveled with Telemachus

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Menelaus and Helen

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Married couple; Menelaus began the Trojan War after Helen was abducted; King and Queen of Sparta

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Agamemnon

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Betrayed by his wife and killed

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Achilles

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Greek Hero against Trojans; Already dead in the Underworld

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Nausicaa

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First to find Odysseus after fighting Poseidon’s storm

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Alcinous and Arete

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Married couple; Parents of Nausicaa

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Eurylochus

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Second in command on Odysseus’s ship; refuses to go into Circe’s hall; convinces everyone to go on Helios’s land

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Tiresias

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Theban prophet who inhabits the underworld; tells Odysseus how to go home

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Aeolus

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Gave Odysseus favorable winds and a bag full of unfavorable winds

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Antinous

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First to die by Odysseus’s hand; plots death of Telemachus

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Eurymachus

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Suitor; Killed from arrow of Odysseus

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Eumaeus

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Swineherd; loyal to Odysseus and son

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Philoetius

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Odysseus’s cowherd; loyal to Odysseus

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Melanthius

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Sent Telemachus home near end of book; Son of Nestor

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Eurycleia

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Old servant woman; took care of Odysseus since he was a child

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Melantho

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Disloyal to Penelope (Maid of); sleeps with Eurymachus

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Leodes

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Suitor; predicted Odysseus’s return

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Athena

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god of wisdom; the bright eyed god

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Zeus

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Leader of the gods; god of the storm/lightning

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Poseidon

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god of the sea

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Hermes

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messenger god

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Calypso

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traps Odysseus on her island after he crashes there; she wants him to become her husband

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Circe

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turns Odysseus’s men into pigs; Odysseus stays with her for a year

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Polyphemus

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Cyclops; blinded by Odysseus; gets revenge through Poseidon

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