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The Odyssey Flashcards

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1
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Homer

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Author of the Odyssey

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Odysseus

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Main character

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Penelope

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Wife of Odysseus

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Telemachus

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Son of Penelope and Odysseus

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Laertes

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Father of Odysseus

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Anticlea

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Mother of Odysseus

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Elpenor

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Greek

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Eurylochus

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Greek

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Perimedes

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Greek

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Tiresias

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Blind prophet, in the Land of the Dead

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Achilles

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Greek

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Hector

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Trojan

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King Priam

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Trojan

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Paris

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Trojan

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Helen

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Greek Queen

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Menelaus

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Greek

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Agamemnon

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Greek

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Alcinous

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King of the Phaecians, offers Odysseus hospitality and a safe passage to Ithaca

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Cicones

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A Homeric Thracian tribe, joined the Trojans

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Sirens

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Use their beautiful voices to luer sailors to their deaths

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Polyphemus

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Son of Poseidon, a Cyclops

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Scylla

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Appears as a rock, then has six heads and attacks ships

23
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Charybdis

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A whirlpool that sucks things under water then spits them out

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Circe

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An enchantress, who helps Odysseus

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Calypso

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A nymph who kept Odysseus for years

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Laestrygonians

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A group of cannibals

27
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Lotus Eaters

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People who give a flower(lotus) and it makes you forget everything and makes you want nothing else than to eat lotus flowers(like a drug)

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Zeus

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Helps and goes against Odysseus, king of all gods, god of the skys

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Poseiden

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Helps and goes against Odysseus, god of the sea

30
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Helios

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Against Odysseus, god of the sun

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Athena

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Helped Odysseus, god of wisdom and war

32
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Hermes

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Helped Odysseus, messenger of the gods

33
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Aeolus

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Helped Odysseus, god of wind

34
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Hades

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God of the dead, ruler of the Underworld

35
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lampetia

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Daughter of Helios, was sent to guard her father’s cattle

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Ithaca

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Home of Odysseus

37
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Troy

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Home of the Trojans

38
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Aeolia

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Home of Aeolus

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Ismarus

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Home of the Cicones

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Aeaea

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Home of Circe

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Ogygia

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Home of Calypso

42
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Phaeacia

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Home of Alcinuous

43
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Land of the Dead

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Home of Hades

44
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Antinous

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Leader of the suitors

45
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Eumaeus

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Odysseus’ old sheep herder

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