Principle Character of the Odyssey
Humans
Gods
Eurymachus
Eurynome
Eurylochus
Laertes
Eumaeus
Maron
Antinous
Odysseus
Amphinomus
Penelope
Alcinous
Perimedes
Agamemnon
Telemachus
Eurycleia
King and leader of Greek forces during the Trojan war
King of the Phaecians and person to whom Odysseus relates his story
One of Penelope's suitors
Rudest of penelope's suitors
Odysseus's loyal swineherd
Oddysseus's faithful old nurse
one of Oddysseus's crew
One of penelope's suitors
Penelope's House keeper
Odyddeus's father
Oddysseus's father
Priest of Apollo who gives Odysseus a gift of powerful wine
king of Ithaca and Hero of the Trojan war
Odysseus wife
One of Odysseus's crew
Tiresias
Blind prophet from the underworld
Helios
Lotus
Cyclopes
Polyphemus
Circe
Posiedon
Charybdis
Scylla
Calypso
Sirens
Athena
Apollo
Zeus
king of the gods
sea nymph who sing songs that lure men to their death
six-headed female monster
God of the sea and Earthquakes
a cyclops and a son of posiedon
Inhabitants of a land visited by Odysseus and his crew
god of the sun; another name for Apollo
race of one eyed giants ; an individual member of the race is a cyclops
enchantress who lives on the island of Aeaea
dangerous whirlpool personified as female monster
immortal sea nymph who hold Odysseus captive for many years
Daughter of Zeus and goddess of wisdom, skills, and warfare
God of sunlight, music, poetry, medicine, law, and the tending of flocks and herds
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