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Odyssey Part 1 (Odysseus - The protagonist of the Odyssey. Odysseus…
Odyssey Part 1
Odysseus - The protagonist of the Odyssey. Odysseus fought among the other Greek heroes at Troy. He is a favorite of the goddess Athena
Telemachus - Odysseus’s son. Telemachus is about twenty at the beginning of the story. Athena often assists him
Penelope - Wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus. Penelope spends her days in the palace pining for the husband who left for Troy twenty years earlier and never returned
Athena - Daughter of Zeus and goddess of wisdom, purposeful battle, and the womanly arts. Athena assists Odysseus and Telemachus with divine powers throughout the epic, and she speaks up for them
Poseidon - God of the sea. As the suitors are Odysseus’s mortal antagonists, Poseidon is his divine antagonist.
Zeus - King of gods and men, who mediates the disputes of the gods on Mount Olympus. He sometimes helps Odysseus.
Eurymachus - A manipulative, deceitful suitor. Eurymachus’s charisma and duplicity allow him
Antinous - The most arrogant of Penelope’s suitors. Antinous leads the campaign to have Telemachus killed.
Amphinomus - Among the dozens of suitors, the only decent man seeking Penelope’s hand in marriage
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Melanthius - The brother of Melantho.Melanthius is a treacherous and opportunistic goatherd who supports the suitors,
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Circe - The beautiful witch-goddess who transforms Odysseus’s crew into swine when he lands on her island.
Laertes - Odysseus’s aging father , who resides on a farm in Ithaca. In despair and physical decline
Tiresias - A Theban prophet who inhabits the underworld. He shows Odysseus how to get back to Ithaca
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Menelaus - King of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon, and husband of Helen
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Agamemnon - Former king of Mycenae, brother of Menelaus, and commander of the Achaean forces at Troy.
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Alcinous - King of the Phaeacians, who offers Odysseus hospitality in his island kingdom of Scheria
Arete - Queen of the Phaeacians, wife of Alcinous, and mother of Nausicaa.
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