The Odyssey with pictures
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janeenwalsh Plus on April 13, 2012
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The Odyssey characters with pictures from the movie
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English, English I, English 01, Nashua South
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Homer |  Ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC) |
| Epic |  A long narrative poem about the adventures of a hero whose actions reflect the ideals and values of a nation or race |
| Odysseus |  Endures a long journey from Troy to Ithaca; King of Ithaca |
| Penelope |  Wife of Odysseus, Mother of Telemachus |
| Telemachus |  Odysseus and Penelope's son |
| Anticlea |  Odysseus's mother |
| Athena |  Daughter of Zeus; goddess of wisdom; helps both Telemachus and Odysseus |
| Mentor | The male disguise that Athena sometimes takes |
| Zeus |  Father of all gods and goddesses |
| Poseidon |  God of the sea; tries to get revenge on Odysseus |
| Aeolus |  God of the winds |
| Helios |  The sun god |
| Hermes |  Messenger of the gods |
| Menelaus |  King of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon, husband of Helen, offers to help Telemachus |
| Helen |  Wife of Menelaus, Queen of Sparta, her abduction by Paris started the Trojan war |
| Agamemnon |  King and leader of the Greek forces |
| Paris |  The son of Priam, takes Helen which begins the Trojan war; fatally wounds Achilles in the heel with an arrow |
| Achilles |  Immortal man, vulnerable only in his heel |
| Antinous |  Leader of the suitors |
| Eurymachus |  Shows influence over other suitors, forces Penelope to chose |
| Eumaeus |  The shepard who helps Odysseus |
| Eurycleia |  Loyal servant to Penelope, helped raise Odysseus and Telemachus |
| Melantho | Servant who is having an affair with Eurymachous |
| Cyclops |  Cannibal clan of one-eyed giants |
| Polyphemus |  The cyclops who imprisons Odysseus |
| Circe |  The sorceress who turns Odysseus's men into pigs |
| Sirens |  Beautiful creatures whose songs lure sailors to their deaths |
| Tiresias |  Theban prophet in the Underworld |
| Scylla |  Man eating, six-headed monster that lives in a cave across from Charybdis |
| Charybdis |  Monster in the form of a giant whirlpool |
| Calypso |  Sea goddess who imprisons Odysseus for 7 years |
| Lotus-Eaters |  Legendary people who live on a plant who's fruit induces stupor and forgetfulness of home |
| Alcinous |  King of Phaeacians to whom Odysseus tells his story |
| Eurylochus |  Second in command on the voyage home from Troy; one who told Odysseus that their comrades were turned into swine by Circe; also provoked men to eat Helios' cattle |
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