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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

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