The Odyssey: Characters

Question 1

Zeus

Answer 1

The god of thunder, the sky, and king of the gods and of Mount Olympus

Question 2

Athena

Answer 2

The Goddess of Wisdom & War

Question 3

Poseidon

Answer 3

God of the sea and lord of earthquakes and equestrians

Question 4

Hermes

Answer 4

The god of messengers and travel

Question 5

Apollo

Answer 5

God of the sun, music, archery, medicine, light, etc. Twin brother of Artemis

Question 6

Artemis

Answer 6

Goddess of the moon & the hunt; twin sister of Apollo

Patron to young children (especially young girls)

Question 7

Proteus

Answer 7

The Egyptian God of The Sea

& Shepherd of Seals

Question 8

Calypso

Answer 8

Witch who lives on Ogygia, wants to keep Odysseus forever (& for his hand in marriage)

Zeus forces her to let Odysseus go

Question 9

Mnemosyne

Answer 9

Goddess of Memory, mother of The Muses

Question 10

The Muses

Answer 10

Daughters of Mnemosyne, Goddesses of basically anything inventive (art, music, etc.)

In The Odyssey there is a call to the muses

Question 11

Helius

Answer 11

God of The Sun, had the cows

Cows got killed by Odysseus’ men

Question 12

Odysseus

Answer 12

King of Ithaca, son of Laertes & Anticleia, protagonist of The Odyssey

Question 13

Penelope

Answer 13

Queen of Ithaca, wife of Odysseus, wove & unwove a burial shroud to avoid getting remarried

Question 14

Telemachus

Answer 14

Son of Odysseus & Penelope, tries to find Odysseus

Question 15

Mentor

Answer 15

son of Alcimus, friend of Odysseus, in charge of Telemachus

Question 16

Nestor

Answer 16

King of Pylos, Telemachus goes to him to help find Odysseus

Question 17

Atreus

Answer 17

King of Mycenae, son of Pelops & Hippodamia, father of Agamemmnon & Menelaus

Question 18

Agamemnon

Answer 18

King of Mycenae, commanded the Achaeans during the Trojan War, got killed by his wife, Clytemnestra

Sacrificed, Iphigenia, his daugther

Question 19

Clytemnestra

Answer 19

Wife of Agamemnon, killed (via poison) & cheated on him.

Question 20

Aegisthus

Answer 20

Lover of Clytemnestra, tells her to kill Agamemnon, son of Thyestes & Pelopia

Adopted son of Agamemnon, treated like a son

Question 21

Orestes

Answer 21

Son of Agamemnon, King of Mycenae, and Clytemnestra

Killed Clytemnestra with Electra for revenge

Question 22

Menelaus

Answer 22

Helens husband, King of Sparta

Question 23

Helen

Answer 23

Wife of Menelaus, cause for the Trojan war because she got abducted

by Paris & such

Question 24

Paris

Answer 24

Nabbed Helen, Prince of Troy, LOSER

Killed Achilles (shot in the heel!)

Question 25

Hector

Answer 25

Very Strong, Brother of Paris, Prince of Troy

Killed Patroclus