Odyssey Character Puzzle
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- King of Ithaca
- Odysseus
- takes part in the Trojan War on the side of Agamemnon.
- Odysseus
- wife of Odysseus and the patient mother of Telemachos
- Penelope
- Odysseus' son
- Telemachos
- The goddess of wisdom and the daughter of Zeus.
- Athena
- Odysseus' champion amongst the gods
- Athena
- The King of Pylos. He had fought on the side of Agamemnon in the Trojan War.
- Nestor
- The King of Sparta
- Menelaus
- The Trojan War was fought to rescue his wife, Helen, who was abducted by Paris.
- Menelaus
- The wife of Menelaus
- Helen
- The most vociferous and proud of the suitors
- Antinous
- He plots Telemachus' death and often leads the suitors in their mistreatment of Odysseus and his household.
- Antinous
- Another outspoken and powerful suitor. In Book 22, he begs Odysseus for forgiveness on behalf of all the suitors.
- Eurymachus
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in the guise of Mentes, ruler of the Taphians___
encourages Telemachos to go in search of news about his father. - Athena
- Ithacan who is loyal to Odysseus. When Odysseus departed, he had given charge of his house to this man.
- Mentor
- The other five sons of Nestor at Gerenia, who help their father in looking after the guest,Telemachus.
- Echephron, Stratius, Perseus, Aretus, Thrasymedes
- Nestor's wife, eldest of the daughters of Clymenus.
- Eurydice
- The youngest daughter of Nestor. She bathes Telemachus when he stays at her father's house in Pylos.
- Polycaste
- Son of Orsilochus and ruler of Pherae. Telemachus and Peisistratus stop at his place for the night on their way to and from Sparta.
- Diocles