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Characters Flashcards

1
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Kings of Ithaca

A

Odysseus

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Odysseus’s wife

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Penelope

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3
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Odysseus’s son

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Telemachus

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Goddess of wisdom, skill, and warfare; Odysseus’s helper

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Athena

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5
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King of the Phaecians, to whom Odysseus tells the story

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Alcinous

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6
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Odysseus’s father

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Laertes

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7
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Giant with one eye on forehead

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Cyclops

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god of music, poetry, prophesy, and medicine

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Apollo

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9
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Father of all the gods

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Zeus

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10
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King and leader of all Greek forces

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Agamemnon

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god of sea, earthquakes, horses, and storms at sea

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Poseidon

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Cyclops whom imprisons Odysseus and is Poseidon’s son

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Polyphemus

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13
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Wizard who foretold Polyphemus his fortune about Odysseus taking out his eye

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Telemus

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14
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Telemus’s dad

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Eurymus

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15
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Titan who was ruler of the universe until he was overthrown by his son Zeus

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Cronus

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16
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Messenger of the gods; only thing that could go in and out of hell

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Hermes

17
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Sun god

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Helios

18
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Enchantress

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Circes

19
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King of wind

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Aeolus

20
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was a man of Odysseus who fell of Circes’s roof

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Elpenor

21
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Odysseus’s mom

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Anticlea

22
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the daughter of Zeus and the harvest-goddess Demeter, and queen of the underworld.

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Persephone

23
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Spirit wizard prince of Thebes whom Odysseus meets at the land of the dead

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Tiresias

24
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“She has twelve mis-shapen feet, and six necks of the most prodigious length”

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Scylla

25
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Sucking whirlpool

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Charybdis

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