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Mythology
Odyssey
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Classics
Undergraduate 2
05/06/2008

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Island of Aiaia
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home of Circe
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Aeolos
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King of an island; gives Odysseus a big bag of winds
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Alkcinoos
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King of Phaeacians; husband of Queen Arete; father of Princess Nausicaa
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Anticleia
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dead mother of Odysseus; he sees her ghost in Hades
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Arete
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Queen of Phaenecians; wife of Alkcinoos; mother of Nausicaa
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Eidothea
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daughter of Proteus
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Elpenor
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sailor who gets drunk and falls off roof of Circe's palace
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Eumaeus
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the loyal swineherd
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Eurycleia
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palace nanny
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Eurylochus
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Cousin of Odysseus; escapes Circe; leads cattle-raiding expedition
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Laertes
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father of Odysseus
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Laestrygonians
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land of giants who kill and eat the crew members, and throw rocks, destroying 11 of the ships
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Lacedaimon
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another name for Sparta
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Leukothea
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The white goddess who came down in the form of a bird and helps Odysseus with a veil
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Neoptolemus
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Son of Achilles; ruthless killer
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Nostos
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homecoming
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Island of Ogygia
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home of Calypso
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Peisistratos
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friend of Telemachus
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Phaeacians
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The ones he told his story to
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Proteus  
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The old man in the sea; could tell the future
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Island of Scheria
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home of Phaenicians; Nausikaa
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Thrinacia
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home of the cattle of Helios
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