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Exam 1 // The Odyssey: Characters Flashcards

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God of wind; tries to help Odysseus return home.

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Aeolus/Aiolus

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A Greek warrior, son of Peleus, godlike & glorious, died at Troy, vulnerable only in one spot—his heel.

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Achilles

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A king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War.

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Agamemnon

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Son of Agamemnon who avenged his father’s murder by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus by killing them both.

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Orestes

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King of the Phaeicians; offers Odysseus a ship to carry him home after he is cast upon the shore after leaving Kalypso’s island.

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Alkinoos/Alcinous

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Odysseus’ mother.

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Antikleia

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King or prince; wooer of Penelope; tried to trap and kill Telemakhos; the ringleader of the group of suitors besieging Penelope (according to Eurymakhos, another suitor).

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Antinoos/Antinous

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One of Odysseus’ crew; eaten by the Cyclops Polyphemos

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Antiphus

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“Grey-eyed” goddess of war; special protector of Odysseus; sometimes offended by his arrogance.

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Athena

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“dire beauty and divine. . .fathered by Helios the light of mortals on Perse, child of the Ocean stream. . . .the goddess. . . .prepared a meal. . .and amber honey mixed with . . wine” turning Odysseus’ shipmates all into swine in body but still human in mind.

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Circe/Kirke

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blind poet in the court of the Phaecians; sings of the siege of Troy and of Odysseus’ heroism; his song so moves Odysseus that he reveals his identity and tells the story of his attempts to return home.

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Demodokus

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swineherd on Ithaca who assists in the slaughter of the suitors thronging around and pressuring Penelope; in the poem, does not recognize Odysseus at first; in the film is shown as a shepherd.

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Eumaeus/Eumaios

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a herald of Odysseus’; “round-shouldered, woolly-headed”; stayed beside Odysseus and was preferred by Odysseus over the officers.

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Eurybates

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nurse to Odysseus from childhood; also nurse to Telemakhos and trusty servant of Penelope; bought by old King Laertes for 20 oxen, admired but never “bedded” by him.

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Eurykleia

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one of the suitors; tries to talk Odysseus out of the slaughter; offers restitution of herds and property. In the film, seduces the serving girl Melanthe.

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Eurymakhos

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a god; angered by Odysseus’ crew for they had killed the “kind(cattle) of Helios”; the wrath of Helios and Zeus leads to the drowning of the crew for their disrespect.

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Helios

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god of fire and of metalworking; fashioned the urn that held Achilles’ cremated remains mixed with those of his dear friend Patroklus.

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Hephaistos/Hephaestos

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messenger god; also guide of the dead to the underworld and god of the marketplace, trickery, and swindling.

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Hermes

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a water goddess or nymph who keeps Odysseus from drowning as he tries to reach the land of the Phaecians; she gives him a magic belt that conveys protection.

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Ino

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beautiful goddess who offers Odysseus immortality if he will stay with her and not return to his home and family in Ithaca.

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Kalypso/Calypso

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father of Odysseus, father-in-law for whom Queen Penelope says she must weave a burial shroud because of his age and his royal stature. He himself occupies a rocky hillside farm to which Odysseus and his faithful friends travel as a place of protection at the end of The Odyssey.

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Laertes

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serving girl in the film who falls in love with one of Penelope’s suitors and informs him that Penelope is taking apart the weaving of the shroud each night; she dies trying to open the doors of the great room where the slaughter occurs. Apparently not actually in Homer’s poem, but serves a purpose in the film.

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Melanthe

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goatherd in Homer’s poem who helps the throng of suitors by scaling the wall and bringing arms and shields to them stolen from Odysseus’ storeroom; punished brutally—his ears and nose are hacked off and his genitals pulled off and fed to the dogs.

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Melanthios

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a king of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon, husband of Helen of Troy; character in Homer’s poem who tells Telemakhos that his father is stranded on Calypso’s island.

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Menelaus

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the Phaecian princess who comes with her maidens to the mouth of a river on Scheria’s shore and finds Odysseus there where he has been thrown by Poseidon’s waves after leaving Calypso’s island.

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Nausicaa

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oldest and wisest of the Greek leaders at Troy; greets Telemakhos and Athena (who is in disguise) and fills in some parts of the story that followed the fall of Troy.

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Nestor

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beloved companion of Achilles who is killed while wearing Achilles’ armor at Troy and whose ashes are mixed with those of Achilles in a beautiful urn.

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Patroclus

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name used by Odysseus in the film in referring to his crewmember that opened the bag of storm winds that blew the ship far off course.

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Peremedes

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provide gifts of gold and bronze and provide a ship to take Odysseus home to Ithaca. Homer’s epic shows how Poseidon the god of the sea punishes them for their role in helping Odysseus.

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Phaeacians

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the cowherd who in the epic also fights on Odysseus’ side against the throng of suitors.

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Philoitios

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crewmember turned into a pig by Circe’s magic (as seen in film).

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Polaites

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one-eyed Cyclops, son of Poseidon; eats Antiphus.

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Polyphemos

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god of the sea.

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Poseidon

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king of Troy; father of Hector and Paris.

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Priam

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abducted his lover Helen, wife of Menelaus king of Sparta, thus causing the Trojan War.

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Paris

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monstrous challenges to Odysseus resulting, in the film, in the loss of his ship and crew after his descent into Hades and before his arrival at Ogygia (Kalypso’s island).

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Skylla/Scylla & Charybdes/Kharybdis

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Odysseus’ son.

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Telemakhos

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blind prophet Odysseus must seek out in Hades in order to find his way home.

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Tiresias

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most powerful of the Olympian gods, who is coaxed by Athena to send word to Kalypso that she must let Odysseus leave her island to continue his quest.

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Zeus

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