Odyssey Characters Books 1-12_Brinkman
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ClomeKnight on November 6, 2010
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Odysseus |  Achaean king |
| Ithaca | home of Odysseus |
| Penelope | wife of Odysseus |
| Telemachus | son of Odysseus |
| Laertes | father of Odysseus |
| Zeus | ruler of gods |
| Pallas Athena | daughter of Zeus |
| Cronus | father of Zeus |
| Aegisthus | had affair with Clymenestra, wife of Agamemnon |
| Clymenestra | wife of Agamemnon, killed him |
| Orestes | son of Agamemnon, killed Aegisthus |
| Hermes | messenger for gods, god of medicine, giant killer |
| Nestor | king of Pylos |
| Menalaus | King of Sparta, son of Atreus, red hair, last Achean to return from Trojan war |
| Pisistratus | King Nestor's son takes Telemachus to see Menalaus |
| Helen | Queen of Sparta, wife of Menalaus |
| Eidothea | daughter of Proteus, pitied Menalaus |
| Proteus | Old Man of the Sea; told Menalaus that Odysseus is shipwrecked on island with Calypso |
| Aeolus | King that gave Odysseus wind sack |
| Antiphates | King of Laestrygonious; giant ate crewmembers |
| Eurlochus | crewman that didn't go into Circe's palace |
| Circe | bewitching queen of Aeaea; nymph with lovely braids |
| Persephone | wife of Hades |
| Tiresias | ghost prophet; seer of Thebes |
| Elpenor | drunken crewman fell of Circe's roof and broke neck |
| Mentor | put in charge of Odysseus' household while he's at war |
| Pisenor | herald |
| Icarius | Penolope's father |
| Mentes | Pallas Athena in disguise |
| Eurycleia | Telemachus' nurse, daughter of Ops |
| Antinous | leader of the suitors; son of Eupithes |
| Eurmachus | suitor; son of Polybus |
| Halitherses | omen reader in Ithaca |
| Alcinous | King of Phaeacia; give Odysseus ship |
| Arete | Queen of Phaeacia |
| Nausicaa | daughter of generous King Alcinous |
| Helois | god of the sun; Odysseus' men kill his cattle |
| Charybdis | whirlpool monster; swallows everything in water 3x day and vomits it and destroys what it swallows |
| Scylla | 6- headed; fanged; 12-legged monster; eats 6 of Odysseus' crew |
| Anticleia | Odysseus' dead ghost mother |
| Sirens | high pitched singing that people can't resist; transfixes them |
| Polyphemus | Cyclops Odysseus blinds |
| Medon | herald overheard the suitors plotting against Telemachus |
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