| Term | Definition |
| Eris | Lady of discord |
| Hera | Queen of the gods |
| Athene | Goddess of wisdom |
| Aphrodite | Goddess of love |
| Priam | King of Troy |
| Paris | Prince of Troy |
| Troy | City of battle between the Trojans and Greeks |
| Helen | The Beautiful woman that was one of the reasons to the start of the war |
| Menelaus | King of Sparta |
| Penelope | Ulysses wife |
| Trojan Horse | The Ulysses brilliant plan that ended the war |
| Poseidon | God of the sea |
| Morpheaus | God of sleep and dreams |
| Hypnos | God of sleep |
| Polyphemus | Lead Cyclops, son of Posiedon, blinded by Ulysses |
| Nobody | The alias Ulysses used to keep Polyphemus from knowing his real name |
| Aeolus | Keeper of the winds |
| Eurylochus | Ulysses right hand man |
| Circe | Beautiful goddess that turned Ulysses men into pigs |
| Hermes | Messenger God |
| Hades | God of the Underworld or the underworld |
| Persephone | Hades wife |
| Styx | River of dread |
| Lethe | River of forgetfulness |
| Tartarus | Land of the dead |
| Elysian Fields | Heaven |
| Anticleia | Ulysses dead mother |
| Achilles | Greek war hero in Trojan war |
| Teiresias | Ghost in tartarus |
| Calypso | Lets Ulysses stay with her, makes him forget Ithaca |
| Ino | Gives Ulysses a veil that keeps him from drowning |
| Nausicaa | Falls in love with Ulysses |
| Argo | Ulysses dog that died in his arms |
| Telemachus | Ulysses son |
| Iros | King of the beggars |
| Eurycleia | Ulysses nurse that recognized him even in his disguise |
| Antinous | One of Penelope's main suitors who treats Ulysses Badly |
| Eurymachus | Penelope's Main Suitor |
| Euryalus | Alcinous's assistant, challenges Ulysses to the discus |
| Alcinous | King of Phaeacia, Father of Nausicaa |