| A | B |
|---|
| Athena & Poseidon | Greeks' greatest allies before the War but not after |
| Cassandra | Priam's daughter with the gift of foresight |
| Ajax the Lesser | dragged Cassandra out of the sanctuary; challenged the sea |
| Agamemnon | lost almost all his ships after leaving Troy |
| Menelaus | blown to Egypt after leaving Troy |
| Odysseus | king of Ithaca; suffered worse than all Greeks |
| Penelope | Odysseus' wife; model of perfect wife/mother |
| Telemachus | Odysseus' son |
| Penelope's suitors | rude, greedy men who thought Penelope should remarry |
| Penelope's plan | weave during day; unweave at night to delay remarriage |
| Calypso | nymph who loved Odysseus but kept him prisoner |
| Hermes | sent to Calypso to tell her to release Odysseus |
| Mentor | Ithacan who Odysseus trusted most; Athena disguised herself as him |
| Phaeacians | kind people and splendid sailors who helped Odysseus get home |
| Nausicaa | King of Phaeacian's daughter who found Odysseus asleep on the shore |
| Land of the Lotus Eaters | people there gave Odysseus' men flower food to make them forget home |
| Polyphemus | a cyclops; Poseidon's son |
| King Aeolus | keeper of winds; gave Odysseus a bag of wind |
| bag of gold | sailors thought bag of wind was this |
| Laestrygons | people of gigantic size and cannibals; destroyed all of Odysseus' ships but one |
| Circe | beautiful and dangerous witch; changed Odysseus' men to pigs |
| Teiresias | holy man of Thebes; Odysseus went to the Underworld to ask him how to get home |
| Sirens | marvelous singers whose voices would enchant sailors |
| wax/mast | Odysseus put this in the sailors ears and tied himself to this while passing the Sirens |
| Charybdis | drew water in 3 times a day and spouted it out creating a whirlpool |
| Scylla | had face and breast of woman with 6 dog heads and 12 dog feet |
| Oxen | Odysseus' men killed these sacred animals of the Sun |
| old beggar | Athena changed Odysseus into this to disguise his homecoming |
| Eumaeus | Odysseus' pig herder |
| Argos | Odysseus' dog who recognized him and then died |
