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Odyssey
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Undergraduate 2
02/11/2009

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Agamemnon
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Former King of Mycenae; Atrius' son; murdered by wife
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Alcinous
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Phaeacian King; offers hospitality and safe passage to Ithaca to Odysseus
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Anticleia
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Odysseus' mother; Laertes' wife; sees Odysseus in Hades
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Arete
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Phaeacian Queen; Alcinous' wife; Nausicaa's mother
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Elpenor
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gets drunk and falls of Circe's roof; tells Odysseus in Hades to give proper burial
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Eurycleia
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Odysseus' nursemaid; keeps Odysseus' identity secret when sees scar on leg
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Eurylochus
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2nd in command; undermines Odysseus; stirs up trouble
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Laertes
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Odysseus' father; lives on farm in Ithaca
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Menelaus
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King of Sparta; Agamemnon's brother
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Nausicaa
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King Alcinous daughter; finds Odysseus on a beach; Princess of Phaeacia
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Nestor
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King of Pylos; visited by Telemachus
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Odysseus
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fought in Troy; trying to return to Ithaca; Penelope's husband
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Penelope
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Odysseus' wife; faithful; refuses to believe husband dead; clever with burial shroud
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Telemachus
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Odysseus' son; heir to throne in Ithaca; hasn't seen father since infant
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Tiresias
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Theban prophet; Odysseus looks for in underworld; tells Odysseus how to get home
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Athena
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Zeus' daughter; goddess of wisdom, defensive war, and crafts; helps Odysseus and his family
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Calypso
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nymph; loves Odysseus and holds captive; lives on Ogygia; Atlas' daughter
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Charybdis
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sea monster; creates whirlpools; Strait of Messina
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Circe
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enchantress; lives on Aeaea; daughter of Helios; turns crew into swine
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Hermes
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messenger of gods; tells Calypso to let Odysseus go
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Polyphemus
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Cyclops; Poseidon's son; blinded by Odysseus
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Poseidon
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god of sea; son of Kronos and Rhea; makes Odysseus journey home hard
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Scylla
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sea monster on Strait of Messina; like a rocky cliff
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Sirens
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sing seductively; enchantresses; try to lure Odysseus to their island
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Zeus
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King of gods; son of Kronos and Rhea
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Achaeans
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collective name for the Greeks
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Aeaea
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Circe's island
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Cicones
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Thracian tribe; raided by Odysseus' crew; Trojan allies
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Hades
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land of dead; underworld; god of underworld
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Ithaca
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Odysseus' homeland; island west of Greece
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Ogygia
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Calypso's island
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Olympus
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home of the gods; mountain
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Phaeacians
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ship-builders; developed culture; Alcinous' people
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Pylos
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Nestor's land; southwestern peloponese
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Scheria
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Phaeacian land; also called Phaeacia
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Sparta
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Menelaus' land; in Peloponese
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Troy
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where Odysseus leaving; sacked by Achaeans; also called Ilium
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