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- Calypso
- a sea goddess who lives on the island of Ogygia
- Alcinous
- the king of the Phaeacians
- Laertes
- Odysseus' father
- Circe
- a goddess and enchantress who lives on the island of Aeaea
- Zeus
- the chief of the greek gods and goddesses;father of athena and appollo
- Cicones
- allies of the trojans, who live at ismarus
- lotus eaters
- inhabitants of a land odyseus visits
- cyclopes
- a race of one eyed giants
- apollo
- a god of music, poetry, prophecy, and medicine
- poseidon
- the god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses;father of the cyclops who battles odyseus
- aeolus
- the gaurdian of the winds
- Laestrygones
- cannibal inhabitants of a distant land
- eurylochus
- a trusted officer of odyseus
- hermes
- the god of invention, comerce, and cunning;messenger of the gods
- persephone
- the wife of the ruler of the underworld
- tiresias (of thebes)
- a blind prophet whose spirit odyseus visits in the underworld
- sirens
- creatures, part woman and part bird, whose songs lure sailors to their death
- scylla
- a six-headed monster who devours sailors
- charybdis
- a dangerous whirlpool personified as a female sea monster
- helios
- the sun god, who pastures his cattle on the island of thrinacia
- antinous
- a suitor of penelope's
- eurymachus
- a suitor of penelope's
- telemachus
- odyseus' son
- eumaeus
- a servant in odyseus' household
- philoetius
- a servant in odyseus' household
- eurycleia
- an old female servant, still loyal to odyseus
- epic
- a long narrative poem (that tells about the adventures of a hero)
- epic hero
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a larger than life figure,usually male, who embodies the ideals of a nation or race
HAS HUMAN FLAWS!!!!!!!!! - epic simile
- an elaborate more involved version of a regular simile
- epithet
- brief, descriptive phrases that help to characterize a particular person or thing