Odyssey Characters (Chapters 3-21)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Lotuseaters | The island where people eat my flowers and do not want to go home. |
| Alcinous | The king who tried to get Odysseus to tell this guy his name (Odysseus). |
| Poseidon | The father of Polyphemus and the other Cyclopes. |
| Athena | The Olympian Goddess who loves Odysseus and begs for his release. |
| Eurycleia | Odysseus' nursemaid and watches over the house in Ithaca. |
| Leucothea | The goddess who gives Odysseus a cloak to save him from drowning. |
| Penelope | Odysseus' wife. |
| Nausicaa | The princess who helps Odysseus when he lands on her island. |
| Ismarus | The island where Odysseus first finds and gets chased by the Ciclones. |
| Hermes | The Olympian God who tells Calypso to release Odysseus (he flies there). |
| Nobody | The name Odysseus gives to Polyphemus. |
| Calypso | The goddess who kept Odysseus captive while he sat on a rock longing for home. |
| Telemachus | Odysseus' son. |
| Polyphemeus | Blinded by Odysseus and his men. |
| Helen | Queen of Sparta, married to Menelaus. |
| Demodocus | A blind bard who sings to try to get Odysseus to tell his name to King Alcinous. |
| Homer | the blind poet who tells THE ODYSSEY. |
| Menelaus | The king who tells Telemachus where he can find his father. |
| Antinous | The worst of the suitors after Penelope. |
| Phaecians | The island where Nausicaa and Alcinous live. |
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