Odyssey Characters 2
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ejmusic5000 on October 31, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Argos | odysseus's old dog |
| Artemis | daughter of Zeus, sister of Apollo, goddess of childbirth and hunting |
| Athena | Daughter of Zeus and goddess of wisdom, purposeful battle, and the womanly arts. Athena assists Odysseus and Telemachus with divine powers throughout the epic, and she speaks up for them in the councils of the gods on Mount Olympus. She often appears in disguise as Mentor, an old friend of Odysseus. |
| Atreus | Father of Agamemnon and Menelaus |
| Atrides | Son of atreus= either Agamemmnon or Menelaus |
| Calypso | Goddess-nymph, daughter of Atlas, lives on Ogygia, kept Odysseus for Seven years |
| Cassandra | Daughter of Priam, sister of Hector, lover of Agamemnon, murdered with him by Aegisthus and Clytemnestra. The was a prophetess who foresaw the doom of troy, her visions inspired by Apollo who, his love rebuffed, denied her the power ever to be believed. |
| Charybdis | (Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla |
| Cicones | Trojan allies, living in Thrace, to the north of Troy |
| Circe | Goddess of Aeaea, changed men to swine, kept Ody for a year. |
| Clashing Rocks | Lethal Cliffs, near Scylla and Charybdis |
| Clytemnestra | Wife of Agamemmnon, Aegisthus's lover, Orestes's mother |
| Cronus | God, Father of Zeus and Poseidon |
| Ctesippus | Suitor killed by Philoetius |
| Cyclops | Clan of Giants or The one killed by Odysseus named Polyphemus |
| Danaans | Another name for Achaeans |
| Deiphobus | Son of Priam, commander of Trojans after Hector dies, friend of Helen after Paris dies |
| Demodocus | Blind Bard for Phaeacians |
| Echeneus | Phaeachian, opposed odysseus on Phaeacia |
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