The Odyssey Flashcards
Translator
Robert Fitzgerald
The author / storyteller
Homer
King of which the epic hero tells his story
Alcinous
Epic hero, son of Laertes
Odysseus
Sea goddess who loved the EH
Calypso
Enchantress
Circe
Cyclopes encountered by EH
Polyphemus
EHs father
Laertes
Member of crew
Perimedes
Crew mate who ate the beeves
Eurylochus
Blind prophet
Tiresias
Mother of EH, dead
Anticlea
Father of the mother of the EH
Autolycus
Drunken and dead shipmate
Elpinor
Son of Odysseus
Telemachus
Creatures whose song lures sailors to their death
Sirens
Six headed sea monster
Scylla
Enormous and dangerous whirlpool
Charybdis
Daughter of Helios
Lampetia
Swine herd
Eumaeus
Leader suitor, antagonist
Antinous
Housekeeper
Eurynome
Wife of EH
Penelope
Suitor
Amphinomus
Cowardly suitor
Eurymachus
Start of The Odyssey, where the story is being told
Phaecia, with king alcinous
People who give Odysseus a ride to Ithaca after he tells his story
Phaeacians
Land of the druggies and pot heads in modern time
Land of the Lotus Eaters
Odysseus gets cursed here
Land of the Cyclopes, where Polyphemus prays to Poseidon that Odysseus never sees Ithaca.
Land of the wind god
Aeolia, where Aeolus dwells.
Cannibals
Laestrygonians
Land where Elpinor dies
Aeaea, island of Circe
Elpinor, Anticlea, and Tiresias are met here
Land of the dead
They return here after meeting Tiresias
Aeaea, to bury Elpinor and get Circe’s help
The rocks are what are deadly if you are led to them by their less deadly song
Sirens
Monsters Odysseus fights twice
Scylla and Charybdis
Land of the sun god
Thrinacia, where Helios and his line or beeves live.
Athena’s Epithet
Hope of Soldiers