The Odyssey
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- Polyphemus
- cyclops that captures Odysseus and his men; eats 2 men each day; rolls a rock in front of the cave so they can't escape; breaks Xenia because he asks a question before offering anything to them; Odysseus pokes his eye out and he sits in front of the cave feeling his sheep but they escape nonetheless; when taunted by Odysseus throws rocks at their ships and almost hits them
- Arete
- wike of Alkinoos; the person Nausicaa tells Odysseus to see first in the Phiakians' palace
- Elpenor
- forgotten man of Odysseus'; he was sleeping on the roof one night and woke up to the sound of voices so he took a step, because he forgot he was on the roof, stepped right off the roof and died
- Antiphates
- ruler of the Laistrygons; ripped one man apart and drinks blood; cannibal
- Nausicaa
- daughter of the Phaiakians; Athena appeared to her in a dream to tell her to wash her clothes at the pond so she would find Odysseus; she finds Odysseus and takes him into the palace
- Poseidon
- god of the sea; hates Odysseus because he poked out the eye of Polyphemus; makes it very hard for Odysseus to get home with rough traveling on the waters
- Antikleia
- mother of Odysseus; died because of the grief of Odysseus being gone; tells of what is happening at home: Penelope is a wreck but she remains faithful, tells of Telemakhos; his mom tries to hug him 3 times but she's only a spirit
- Ino
- nymph; gives Odysseus a sash to keep him from drowning; Odysseus is hesitant because she might be tricking him
- Persephone
- daughter of Zeus who sends the souls to Odysseus
- Sisyphus
- man in torment even as a soul; he was carrying a huge boulder and he threw it almost over and the boulder came crashing down again
- Tantalus
- tortured because he needed to drink and he was surrounded by water but he could not drink because when he tried to drink the water vanished; he was also hungry but he could not satisfy his hunger because algthough there was a tree full of apples but if he reached for them the branch was snatched away from him
- Alkinoos
- ruler of the Phiakians; married to Arete
- Eurylokhos
- in the platoon that explored Kirke's island but when they all feasted with her he stayed back fearing a trap and he didn't get turned into a pig
- Hermes
- sent by Zeus to free Odysseus from Kalypso; manages to get her to free Odysseus by threat of Zeus
- Nohbdy
- Odysseus says this is his name in order to trick the Cyclops so when someone asked what was wrong it would sound like nothing was wrong so no one knew his eye had been poked out
- Kirke
- takes in Odysseus and his men and turns them into pigs; challenged by Odysseus she lost with her wand to his sword and slept with him; she let them go but said that he must go to Hades to consult with Teiresias
- Helios
- One "by whom all things are seen, all speech is known"; has cattle that Odysseus and his men should not but most likely will feast on and therefore will result in the death of Odysseus' men
- Kalypso
- Goddess living on the island of Ogygia; captures Odysseus and keeps him there and sleeps with him for years; finally agrees to free Odysseus and give him supplies and build him a ship; swears that she will not recapture him
- Aiolos
- had 6 daughters and 6 sons who were married to eachother; when Odysseus was setting back out on his journey, after feasting on Aiolia island, Aiolos gave him a bag of winds to help blow them in the right direction but the winds get released and they end up back where they started; he sends them away fearing they are cursed by the gods
- Teiresias
- wise man; reveals that to Odysseus that: Poseidon hates him, he and his men shouldn't eat the cattle of Lord Helios because all of his men will die, he will go hom and regulate/kill the suitors, and when he is home he must take an oar inland and plant it in the ground and make a hekatomb to Poseidon