odyssey names
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 odysseus | king of Ithaka, the great tactician, lion, war mastermind |
| Penelope | od's wife |
| telemakhos | od's son |
| laertes | od's father |
| Antikleia | od's mom, now dead |
| eurykleia | od's old nurse |
| zeus | god ruler, god of sky and weather |
| posiedon | sea god, earthshaker, blue-maned god, father of polyphemos |
| athena | grey eyed, pallas goddess of wisdom and war her symbol is an olive branch |
| hermes | messenger god |
| antinoos | leader of penelope's suitors on ithaka |
| Eurymakhos | another leading suiter |
| menelaos | king of sparta, bro of agamemnon |
| polyphemos | one of the kyklops, son of poseidon |
| agamemnon | king of argos, bro of menelaos, lord of the great plains |
| kalypso | minor goddess/nymph, daughter of atlas, lives on isle of ogygia |
| Helen | Menelaos' wife, demi-god, cause of trojan war |
| mentor | od's friend, an ithakan nobleman, a comrade in the arms of Od, now old |
| mentes | athena in disguise as "family friend" |
| nestor | king of pylos, prince of charioteers |
| halitherses | an old lord, keenest reader of birdflight |
| Akhilleus | greatest of greek fighters, killed in troy |
| Ikarios | Penelope's father |
| Klytaimnestra | Agamemnon's unfaithful wife |
| Leokritos | another insolent suitor |
| Peisistratos | nestor's son and telemakhos' new pal |
| Nausikaa | daughter of King Alkinoos and Queen Arete, in the land of Phaiakia, or Skheria Island |
| Skheria Island/Phaiakia (with Phaiakians) | island of good shipmen, where Odysseus gets washed up |
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