Homer's Odyssey - Character List 2
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mrobinsonnz on June 29, 2010
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A list of the more obscure characters that appear in the set books.
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German | English |
|---|---|
 Iphitus | Gave Odysseus the great bow |
| Maron | Gave Odysseus the strong wine (used to get the Cyclops drunk) |
| Peisistratus | Son of Nestor; accompanies Telemachus to Sparta |
| Thoosa | Mother of Polyphemus |
| Ino | Gave Odysseus a veil to wind around his waist in Book 5 |
| Anticleia | Mother of Odysseus |
| Hyperon | Sun-god; Odysseus' men ate his cattle - bad idea |
| Demodocus | Blind bard in the service of the Phaeacian king |
| Aethon | False name Odysseus uses when he speaks to Penelope in Book 19 (in disguise as a beggar) |
| Theoclymenus | Prophet who has a vision of the suitors' impending doom in Book 20 |
| Ctesippus | Suitor who threw an ox-hoof at Odysseus (when he was disguised as a beggar) |
| Mentor | Close friend of Odysseus in Ithaca; Athena assumes his form |
| Actoris | A maid; the only other person apart from Odysseus and Penelope to know the secret of how the bed was constructed (Book 23) |
| Teiresias | Blind prophet whom Odysseus consults in Hades about his return Book 10 - mention in Book 23) |
| Medon | Herald in the palace of Odysseus; spared by Telemachus in the battle with the suitors |
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