The Odyssey Flashcards
Names, places and events in the Odyssey
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Aegisthus
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- Killed Agamemnon
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Agamemnon
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- Fought in the Trojan War
- Killed by his wife and her lover
- Menelaus’s brother
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Aphrodite
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- Goddess of Love & Beauty
- Started the Trojan War lowkey
- The winner of the Judgement of Paris
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Athena
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- Odysseus & Telemachus’s goddess who protects and guides them
- Goddess of War & Wisdom
- Zeus’s daughter
- To humans she is Mentor
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Helen
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- King of Sparta’s (Menelaus) wife
- Is kidnapped as Aphrodite’s prize
- The real reason why everyone fought the Trojan War
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Hermes
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- Messenger God (the one with the wings)
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Menelaus
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- King of Sparta
- Brother of Agamemnon
- Husband of Helen
- Led Greeks to fight the Trojan War
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Nestor
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- Wise man
- Telemachus asks him about where his father might be
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Orestes
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- Kills Aegisthus and his mother (Clytemnestra)
- Gave an example of power to Telemachus when his mother was been intruded by suitors
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Penelope
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- Telemachus’s mother
- Odysseus’s wife (she is FAITHFUL)
- Plays the suitors –> says she’ll lay with them when she finishes weaving a blanket (something like that) in reality she undoes her work every night
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Posidon
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- God of the Sea
- Hates Odysseus for leaving his son without answers
- Messes with Odysseus’s trip home
- Helps Odysseus sometimes
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Suitors
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- The men that come into Telemachus’s house to: eat his food, mess up his house, and try to sleep with his mom
- Inthe end, Telemachus gets rid of them with his new found bravry
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Telemachaus
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- Looking for answers about his father
- Son of Odysseus
- Son of Penelope
- Athena guides him sometimes
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Judgement of Paris
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- An apple was thrown “For the Fairest”
Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite pick it up and argue about who it is actually for - Paris of Troy makes the call and says it is for Aphrodite because she promised him the most beautiful women in the world
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Trojan War
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- Greeks march to Troy to get Helen back
- Some warriors: Menelaus, Agamemnon,Odysseus
