Principal Characters In The Odyssey

Servants(Humans)

Kings(Humans)

All Gods

Odysseus

Agamemnon

Alcinous

King of Ithaca and hero of the Trojan War

King of Phaeacians and person whom Odysseus relates his story

King of Greek forces during the Trojan War

Eurycleia

Eurynome

Eumaeus

Odysseus's faithful old nurse

Odysseus's loyal swineherd

Penelope's housekeeper

All Gods

All Humans

All Humans

All Humans

All Humans

All Humans

Odysseus's Family

Humans who help

Penelope

Laertes

Perimedes

Tiresias

Maron

Agamemnon

Alcinous

Odysseus's wife

Odysseus's father

One of Odysseus's crew

Blind prophet from the underworld

Priest of Apollo who gives Odysseus a gift of powerful wine

Telemachus

Odysseus and Penelope's son

Odysseus

King of Ithaca and hero of the Trojan War

All Gods

All Gods

All Gods

Monsters who do not help

Lotus

Inhabitants of a land visited by Odysseus and his crew

Circe

Enchantress who lives on the island of Aeaea

Polyphemus

A one-eyed giants, cyclops and so of Posiedon

Scylla

Six-headed female sea monster

Sirens

Sea Nymphs who sings songs that lure men to their death

Charybdis

Dangerous whirlpool personified as a female monster

Calypso

Immortal Sea Nymph who hols Odysseus captive for many years

Athena

Daughter of Zeus and goddess of wisdom, skills, and warfare who helps her chose heroes

Apollo

God of music, poetry, medicine, law, sunlight, and the tending of flocks and herds

Helious

God of the sun

Posideon

God of the sea and earthquakes

Zeus

King of the Gods

Immortals(Monsters)

Charybdis

Lotus

Inhabitants of a land visited by Odysseus and his crew

Calypso

Immortal Sea Nymph who hols Odysseus captive for many years

Dangerous whirlpool personified as a female monster

King of Greek forces during the Trojan War

King of Phaeacians and person whom Odysseus relates his story