The Odessey Introduction Packet
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- Who is Antinous
- one of penelope's leading suitors, a mean and arrogant young noble from Ithaca
- Who is Argos
- Odyssesus's old dog
- Eumaeus
- a swinherd, of of odyssesus's loyal servants
- Eurycleia
- odyssesus's old nurse
- Laertes
- odyssesus's old father
- Penelope
- odysseus's faithful wife
- Philoeteus
- a cowherd, loyal servant
- Helen
- the beautiful wife of king Menelaus. she eloped with Paris (prince of troy) and started the Trojan war
- Menelaus
- brother of agamemmon, husband of helen, and king of Lacedaemon, also known as sparta
- nestor
- the wise king of pylos , hero of trojan war
- Aeaa
- the home of Circe , the witch goddess
- Alcinous
- the king of Phaecia, father of Nausicaa (odyssesys tells his story in this guyz court)
- Calypso
- a beautiful goddess-nymph who liveso n Ogygia. keeps O for several years
- Charybdis
- a female monster who sucks in water three times a day to form a deadly whirlpool
- CIrce
- witchgoddess turns O's men into swine
- Cyclops
- one of the Cyclopes, race of bruthis one eyed giants who live solitary lives as shepards, living in sicily
- Erebus
- the land of the dead
- Nausicaa
- the beautiful daughter of the kIng and queen of Phacia
- Polyphemus
- the Cyclops blinded by Odysessus, son of the sea god Poseidon
- Scylla
- a female monster with six serpent heads each had having fangs
- SIrens
- sea nymphs who beautiful and mysterious music lures sailors to steer their ships towards the rocks
- Teiresias
- a famous blind prophet from the city of Thebes met by odysses in the land of the dead
- Athena
- FAV. DAUGHTER OF zEUS; FAVORED the greeks during Trojan War
- Who lost the war?
- troy
- Hermes
- the messenger god
- Olympus
- the mountian home of the gods
- Poseidon
- brother of zeus, god of the sea and earth odysessus enemy
- Zeus
- the most powerful god