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The Odyssey Flashcards

Names, places and events in the Odyssey

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Penelope

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Wife of Odysseus
Mother of Telemachus
Gets hit on by the suitors
Stalls to not have to marry

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Telemachus

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Turns into a leader

Starts out hopeless and weak

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Zeus

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Brother of Poseidon and Hades
King of gods
thunder god
short tempered
Father of Athena
Husband of Hera
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Poseidon

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God of waters
Brother of Hades and Zeus
Short-tempered
uncle of Athena
Doesn't like Odysseus
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Hades

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God of the underworld
Athena’s uncle
Brother of Zeus and Poseidon

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Hera

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wife of Zeus
queen of the ancient Greek gods
goddess of marriage and the family
Very jealous

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Hermes

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Messenger god
god of trade, wealth, luck, fertility, animal husbandry, sleep, language, thieves, and travel.
Very mischievous and clever
Son of Zeus

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Odysseus

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Great-grandson of Hermes
Very smart
protected by Athena
Father of Telemachus

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Ares

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God of war
son of Zeus and Hera
Violent
Destructive

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Athena

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goddess of wisdom and military victory
also known as Athene
Half-sister of Hercules
daughter of Zeus
favors Odysseus and Telemachus
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Aphrodite

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named the fairest of all the goddesses
was a factor in the Trojan war
Goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.

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Apollo

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God of music, truth and prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague, and poetry.
Son of Zeus
Twin brother of Artemis

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Hestia

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Eldest child of Kronos and Rhea
Goddess of the hearth, home, the right ordering of domesticity, and family
Received the first offering at every sacrifice in the household

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Menelaus

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King of Mycenaean Sparta
Husband of Helen of Troy
Son of Atreus and Aerope

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Aretemis

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Artemis is the Olympian goddess of the hunt, the moon, and chastity and associated with childbirth and nature
No more than few days old, she helped her mother Leto give birth to her twin brother Apollo
Very protective of her and her priestesses’ innocence.

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Paris

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Also known as Alexander
The son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, Appears in a number of Greek legends
Best known because of his elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta
The immediate causes of the Trojan War.

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Hephaestus

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The god of fire, metalworking, stone masonry, forges and the art of sculpture
The son of Zeus and Hera
Married to Aphrodite by Zeus to prevent a war of the gods fighting for her hand
Makes all of the weapons for Olympus and acting as a blacksmith for the gods.

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