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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