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Menelaus - King of Sparta

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King of Sparta

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Agamemnon

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Brother of Menelaus

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Achilles

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Hero of the Iliad

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Helen

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Wife of Menelaus

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Paris

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Prince of Troy

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Odysseus

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Hero of the Odyssey

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Penelope

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Wife of Odysseus

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Telemachus

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Son of Odysseus

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Muses

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Daughters of Zeus

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Poseidon

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God of the seas

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Calypso

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Nymph

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Hermes

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Messenger god

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Athena

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Goddess of war and wisdom

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Alcinous

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King of the Phaeacians

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Laertes

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Odysseus’s father

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Polyphemus

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Cyclops; Son of Poseidon

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Aeolus

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King of the winds

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Circe

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Witch who turns Odysseus’s men into pigs

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Polites

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Man who decides that Circe is safe

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Eurylochus

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Man who doesn’t believe Circe but eats the cattle

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Teiresias

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Blind prophet

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Death & Persephone

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Rulers of the Underworld

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Anticlea

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Mother of Odysseus

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Elpenor

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Odysseus’s servant who does not receive a proper burial

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Scylla

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Monster with twelve tentacles and six heads

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Charybdis

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Monster who causes whirlpools

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Lord Helios

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Sun god

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Sirens

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Women who sing to lure men to their deaths

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Lampetia

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Daughter of Lord Helios

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Eameaus

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Swineherd

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Philoetius

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Cowherd

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Argos

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Odysseus’s ever-faithful dog

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Eurycleia

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Odysseus’s servant

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Antinous

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Meanest suitor who hits Odysseus with a stool

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Eurymachus

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Suitor who promises compensation for freedom

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Actoris

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Slave who was a gift from Penelope’s father

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Zeus

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God of sky and justice

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Hera

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queen; wife of Zeus

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Aphrodite

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God of loooveee