The odyssey Flashcards
To remember names
Telemachus
- odysseus’ son
- 15-17 yrs
- Penelope’s son
- Guided by Athena’s
AThena
-Can change her form
-is called pallas
helps tele.
Daughter of zues
Suitors
- arrogant
- Self indulgent
- Threatening
- Desperate for Pen.
- Forceful
Aegisthus
Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon
-the lover of Clytemnestra
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Agamemnon
- brother of Menelaus
- Agamemnon was murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus,
- upon his return from the war. He was later avenged by his son Orestes.
Aphrodite
- Aphrodite is one goddess responsible for starting the Trojan War
- was the goddess of love, beauty and fertility.
- She was also a protectress of sailors.
Helen
- married to King Menelaus of Sparta,
- ## was abducted by Prince Paris of Troy-Most beautiful in the world
- -resulting in the Trojan War when the Achaeans
Hermes
- the messenger of the gods
- convinced Calypso to let him off of her island.
judgement of Paris
events that led up to the Trojan War
menelaus
- King of Sparta,
-brother of Agamemnon,
-husband of Helen
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Mentor
- was the son of Alcimus
- friend of Odysseus
Nestor
- son of Neleus
- king of Pylos
Odysseus
he son of Laertes, the king of Ithaca, and Anticlea
- the husband of Penelope
- father of a child named Telemachus.
Orestes
-slaying both Aegisthus and his own mother Clytemnestra
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Penelope
- Mother of telemachus
-Son of Odysseus
Plagued by suiters
Poseidon
- God of the sea
- despises Odysseus for blinding his son
- Cyclops Polyphemus, and constantly hampers his journey home and He sometimes helps Odysseus or permits Athena to do the same.
- Brother of Zeus
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trojan war
- , the great war fought between the Greeks and the Trojans
- Greeks sailed to Troy in order to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of a Greek king.
zues
-he supreme deity of the ancient Greek
-a son of Cronus and Rhea,
brother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Poseidon,
- father of a number of gods, demigods, and mortals; the god of the heavens
