Humanities Mid Term
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- Achilles
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Leader of Greeks in Trojan War
Slain by Paris
Talks to Odysseus in Hades - Aeaea
- Island on which Circe lives
- Aegisthus
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Seduces Clytemnestra
Helps slay Agamemnon
Killed by Orestes - Aeolus
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King of Aeolia
Keeper of the Winds - Agamemnon
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Brother of Menelaus
Commander of Greeks in Trojan
Killed by Clytemnestra for sacrificing his daughter - Alcinous
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King of Phaeacians
Grandson of Poseidon
Safe transport to Ithaca - Amphinomus
- Convinces suitors to not kill Telemechus
- Anticleia
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Wife of Laertes
Mother of Odysseus
Speaks to Odysseus in Hades - Antinous
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Leader of suitors
Killed first - Aphrodite
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Goddess of love and beauty
Caught in an affair with Ares by Hephaestus - Apollo
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God of music and arts
Suitors killed on the day of his festival - Ares
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God of War
Lover of Aphrodite - Arete
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Queen of Phaeacians
Odysseus kneels to her first - Argus
- Odysseus' dog
- Artemis
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Goddess of hunt and moon
Slaughterer of female mortals - Athena
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Goddess of wisdom and battle
Helps Odysseus and Telemechus - Atreus
- Father of Agamemnon and Menelaus
- Autolycus
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Grandfather of Odysseus
Named him - Calypso
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Detains Odysseus for seven years
Offers him immortality - Cassandra
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Trojan princess and phrophet
War prize of Agamemnon - Charybdis
- Whirlpool situated opposite Scylla
- Circe
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Turns Odysseus' men into pigs
Him and his men stay on her island for a year - Clytemnestra
- Kills Agamemnon for sacrificing Iphigeneia
- Cyclopes
- Polyphemus, one-eyed, man eating giant
- Demodocus
- Blind singer of Phaeacia
- Elpenor
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Falls off Circe's roof and dies after falling asleep
In Hades, asks Odysseus for a proper funeral - Eupeithes
- Killed by Laertes after trying to rally suitors against Odysseus
- Eurycleia
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Nurse to Odysseus
Recognizes scars on thigh - Eurylochus
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Informs Odysseus of Circe's powers
Incites crew to slaughter Helios' cattle - Eurymachus
- One of Penelope's suitors
- Hades
- God of Underworld and name of Underworld
- Helen
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Wife of Menelaus
Given to Paris by Aphrodite - Helios
- The Sun God
- Hephaestus
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God of fire
Marries Aphrodite
Makes Achilles' armor - Hera
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Queen of Oylmpian gods
Goddess of childbirth and marriage - Hermes
- Messenger of the gods and guide to mortal travelers
- Irus
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Loses a boxing match to Odysseus
Ithacan beggar - Ithaca
- Odysseus's homeland
- Laertes
- Father of Odysseus
- Laestrygonians
- Giant cannibals who eat Odysseus' crew and destroy all his ships
- Melanthius
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Odysseus'goat herder
Killed for disloyalty - Melantho
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Handmaid of Penelope
Affair with Eurymachus
Hung for betrayal - Menelaus
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Brother of Agamemnon
Husband of Helen - Mentes
- Athena acts like Mentes when she first appears to Telemachus
- Mentor
- Looks over Odysseus' house while he is gone
- Mycenae
- ruled by Agamemnon
- Nausicca
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Phaeacian princess
Discovers Odysseus - Nestor
- King of Pylos
- Ogygia
- Calypso's island
- Olympus
- home of the gods
- Orestes
- Kills Clytemnestra in revenge for her killing his father and her lover, Aegisthus
- Peisistratus
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Youngest son of Nestor
Accompanies Telemachus to Sparta - Penelope
- Wife of Odysseus
- Phaeacians
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Descendants of Poseidon
Remarkable sea faring skills - Phemius
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Bard in Ithaca
Remains faithful to Laertes - Polyphemus
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Son of Poseidon
Blinded by Odysseus - Poseidon
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God of the sea
Curses Odysseus - Proteus
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Shape shifting sea god
Associated with island of Pharos - Pylos
- City ruled by Nestor
- Scheria
- Phaeacians' island
- Scylla
- Half female / Half six headed dog
- Sirens
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Female heads, bird bodies
Irresistible songs - Sisyphus
- Pushes huge stone in Hades
- Sparta
- Ruled by Menelaus
- Tantalus
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Everlasting hunger and thirst
Served gods the flesh of his son - Telemachus
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Son of Odysseus and Penelope
"Battle from afar" - Thrinacia
- Helios' cattle pastured
- Tiresias
- Seer who councels Odysseus in Hades
- Troy
- Conquered by Greeks in the Tojan War