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The Odyssey Flashcards

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Translator

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Robert Fitzgerald

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The author / storyteller

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Homer

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King of which the epic hero tells his story

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Alcinous

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Epic hero, son of Laertes

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Odysseus

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Sea goddess who loved the EH

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Calypso

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Enchantress

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Circe

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Cyclopes encountered by EH

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Polyphemus

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EHs father

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Laertes

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Member of crew

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Perimedes

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Crew mate who ate the beeves

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Eurylochus

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Blind prophet

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Tiresias

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Mother of EH, dead

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Anticlea

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Father of the mother of the EH

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Autolycus

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Drunken and dead shipmate

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Elpinor

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Son of Odysseus

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Telemachus

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Creatures whose song lures sailors to their death

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Sirens

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Six headed sea monster

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Scylla

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Enormous and dangerous whirlpool

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Charybdis

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Daughter of Helios

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Lampetia

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Swine herd

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Eumaeus

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Leader suitor, antagonist

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Antinous

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Housekeeper

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Eurynome

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Wife of EH

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Penelope

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Suitor

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Amphinomus

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Cowardly suitor

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Eurymachus

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Start of The Odyssey, where the story is being told

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Phaecia, with king alcinous

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People who give Odysseus a ride to Ithaca after he tells his story

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Phaeacians

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Land of the druggies and pot heads in modern time

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Land of the Lotus Eaters

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Odysseus gets cursed here

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Land of the Cyclopes, where Polyphemus prays to Poseidon that Odysseus never sees Ithaca.

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Land of the wind god

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Aeolia, where Aeolus dwells.

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Cannibals

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Laestrygonians

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Land where Elpinor dies

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Aeaea, island of Circe

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Elpinor, Anticlea, and Tiresias are met here

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Land of the dead

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They return here after meeting Tiresias

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Aeaea, to bury Elpinor and get Circe’s help

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The rocks are what are deadly if you are led to them by their less deadly song

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Sirens

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Monsters Odysseus fights twice

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Scylla and Charybdis

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Land of the sun god

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Thrinacia, where Helios and his line or beeves live.

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Athena’s Epithet

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Hope of Soldiers

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