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
Eurymachus
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Start of The Odyssey, where the story is being told
Phaecia, with king alcinous
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People who give Odysseus a ride to Ithaca after he tells his story
Phaeacians
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Land of the druggies and pot heads in modern time
Land of the Lotus Eaters
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Odysseus gets cursed here
Land of the Cyclopes, where Polyphemus prays to Poseidon that Odysseus never sees Ithaca.
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Land of the wind god
Aeolia, where Aeolus dwells.
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Cannibals
Laestrygonians
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Land where Elpinor dies
Aeaea, island of Circe
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Elpinor, Anticlea, and Tiresias are met here
Land of the dead
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They return here after meeting Tiresias
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
Sirens
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Monsters Odysseus fights twice
Scylla and Charybdis
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Land of the sun god
Thrinacia, where Helios and his line or beeves live.
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Athena's Epithet
Hope of Soldiers
