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The Odyssey Key Characters Flashcards

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Antinous

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The lead suitor

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Alcinous

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King of Phaeacia

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Athena

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Goddess of wisdom and battle strategy. Guides Telemachus while disguised as mentor.

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Calypso

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Nymph who holds Odysseus captive.

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Charybdis

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Sea monster who swallows massive amounts of water then spits them up again causing whirlpools. Sister of Scylla

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Circe

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Enchantress who turns the crew into pigs and later inform Odysseus what to do next to reach home

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Eumaeus

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The loyal swineherd

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Eurycleia

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Nurse who raised Odysseus

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Helen

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Queen of Sparta

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Helios

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The sun God. Odysseus’s men eat his cattle

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Hermes

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God of thievery, messenger God

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Laertes

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Father of the Odysseus

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Menelaus

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King of Sparta

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Nausicaa

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Princess of Phaeacia. Found Odysseus hiding in the countryside

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Nestor

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Tells Telemachus war stories of Odysseus, king of Pylos

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Odysseus

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Spent 10 years trying to get home from the Trojan war, king of Ithaca, very clever, son of Laertes

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Penelope

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Wife of Odysseus

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Polyphemus

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The Cyclops, son of Poseidon

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Poseidon

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Sea god, enemy Of Odysseus

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Queen Arête

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Queen of Phaeacia

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Scylla

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Six headed monster who pounces on passing sailors from the cliff above. Sister of Charybdis.

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Telemachus

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Son of Odysseus

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The Lotus eaters

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Inhabitants of an island filled with addicting lotus flowers

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The suitors

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Obnoxious men vying for Penelope’s hand in marriage

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Tiresias

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The ghost Odysseus meets in the underworld

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Zeus

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King of the gods, realm of control is the sky, symbols include a lightning bolt and an eagle.

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The sirens

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Lure passerby’s with their songs

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