| A | B |
|---|
| Sirens | Beautiful singers who cause ships to crash |
| Teiresias | Blind seer who lives in the Underworld |
| Polyphemus | Cyclops who is blinded by Odysseus |
| Circe | enchantress who changes men into animals |
| Hermes | he gave Odysseus the antidote to Circe's potion |
| Odysseus | it took him 10 years to get home |
| Phaecians | Odysseus told them his whole story just before they transported him home |
| Scylla | the six-headed monster who eats men |
| Charybdis | the whirlpool monster |
| Helios | angered when Odysseus' men ate his cattle |
| Aeolus | provided Odysseus with a bag of winds |
| Ithaca | Odysseus' final destination |
| Troy | the city defeated by the Greeks |
| Telemachus | Odysseus' son |
| Penelope | Odysseus' wife |
| Lotus | a flower that makes people forget that they want to go home |
| Poseidon | Polyphemus' father; he made it extremely difficult for Odysseus to get home |
| Underworld | a place where Odysseus must travel to become an epic hero |
