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Lotus Eaters

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People encountered by Odysseus

The plant they eat induces a forgetful bliss that nearly costs Odysseus his men

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Cyclopes

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Race of one eyed, barbaric giants

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Polyphemus

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Cyclops encountered and overcome by Odysseus

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Aeolus

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King of the winds
Gives Odysseus a bag that contains the evil winds that will delay his return home
His men, thinking the bag contains treasures, foolishly open it

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Laestrygonians

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Race of cannibals, the encounter with whom anticipates and contrasts with Odysseus’s reception on Phaeacia

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Circê

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Witch who changes Odysseus’s men to swine

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Sirens

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Harpy-like beasts whose song lures sialors to their deaths on the shores
Odysseus has his men bind him to the mast so that he can hear their song

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Charybdis

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Enormous whirlpool just opposite the perch of the monster Scylla
Odysseus must navigate through the two

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Scylla

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Man eating monster whose perch is just opposite the great whirlpool, the Charybdis
Odysseus must navigate through the two

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Calypso

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Beautiful nymph on the island of Ogygia with whom Odysseus stays for 7 years
She offers Odysseus immortality if he will stay

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Phaeacians

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Mythical sea faring people, on whose island Odysseus is washed ashore after Calypso
Odysseus recounts his earlier adventures in their court

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Nausicaä

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Daughter of the king of Phaeacia
She is induced by Athena to go to the shore where Odysseus has washed up
She brings him to the palace

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Eumaeus

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The faithful swineherd on Ithaca with whom Odysseus stays when first arriving home

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Telemachus

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Son of Odysseus

Helps his father defeat the suitors

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Argus

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Odysseus’s faithful dog
“swifty”
Dies after he sees Odysseus after so many years

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Antinoüs

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Leader of the suitors

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Euryclea

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Odysseus’s former nursemaid on Ithaca

She recognizes Odysseus by his scar