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Oddessey Flashcards

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Erebus

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Dark area of the underworld where the dead reside

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Aeaea

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Home of Circe, the witch goddess

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Ithaca

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Home of Odysseus

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Phaeacia

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Island kingdom ruled by King Alcinous; the Phaeacians are shipbuilders and traders

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Thebes

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Home of Tiresias

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Thrinakia

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Island where the sun god Helios keeps his cattle

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Antinous

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One of Penelope’s leading suitors an arrogant and mean young noble from Ithaca

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Argos

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Odysseus dog; Odysseus passed by and he dies

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Eurycleia

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Aged loyal servant who nursed Odysseus and Telemachus; identifies him by a scar on his leg

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Eurylochus

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On of Odysseus loyal crew

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Odysseus

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King of Ithaca, conquerer of Troy

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Penelope

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Odysseus faithful wife

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Telemachus

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Odysseus son

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Alcinous

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King of Phaecia; Odysseus tells the story of his adventur to Alcinous court

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Calypso

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Beautiful goddess-nymph who keeps Odysseus on her island for 7 years

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Charybdis

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Female monster who sucks water three times a day to form a deadly whirlpool

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Circe

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Witch-goddess who turns Odysseus men into swine, or pigs

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Eumaeus

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One of Odysseus loyal servants (swineherd)

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Lotus eaters

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People who feed Odysseus men with lotus to make them forget Ithaca

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Polyphemus

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The cyclops blinded by Odysseus; the son of the sea God Poseidon; cyclops are a race of brutish one- eyed giants who live solitary lives as shephers, supposedly on the island known as Sicily

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Scylla

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Female monster with six serpent heads, each head having a triple row of fangs

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Sirens

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Sea nymphs whose beautiful and mysterious music lures sailors to steer their ships toward the rocks

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Teiresias

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Famous blind prophet from the city of Thebes; Odysseus met him in the land of the dead

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What does Hermes do to calypso

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He orders her to let Odysseus leave

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