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The Odyssey
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English
10th Grade
01/19/2011

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Beautiful nymph goddes who keeps Odysseus on her island for seven years.
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Calypso
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Son of the sea god, Poseidon.

He was blinded by Odysseus.

Cyclops.

 

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Polyphemus
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Blind Prophet.

From the city of Thebes.

Odysseus meets him in the land of the dead.

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Teiresias
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Where the Trojan war was fought.
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Troy
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Odysseus son.
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Telemachus
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Swineherd
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Eumaeus
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Odysseus's faithful wife.
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Penelope.
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God of the under world.
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Hades
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People who fed Odysseus's men to forget about Ithica.
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Lotus Eaters
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People living on South Western coast, Thrace.

Battled Odysseus and his men.

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Cicones.
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Enchantress and goddes.

Turns Odysseus's men into swine.

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Circe
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Favorite daughter of Zeus.

Goddes of wisdom, war, and peace.

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Athena
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Tradtion/story passed by from generation to generation by word of mouth.
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Oral tradition
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Long poem that involves a hero.
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Epic
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Candor.
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Honesty; frankness
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Adorn.
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Add; decorate
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Glowered.
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State angrily
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Lavished.
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Give Genrously
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Pilant.
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Flexible.
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Disdainful
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Scornful; regarding someone as a person
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Reverly
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Celebration or merry making
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Avails.
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Helps
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Aloof
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unfriendly
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Tremulous
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Shaking
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Wrote the Odyssey.
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Homer
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3 Greek values?
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Hospitality, Virtue, and honor.
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