| A | B |
|---|
| Odysseus | king of Ithaca |
| Penelope | wife of Odysseus |
| Telemachus | son of Odysseus |
| Aeolus | king of the winds |
| Circe | sorceress who turned men into pigs |
| Caylpso | immortal sea nymph who kept Odysseus prisoner |
| Polyphemus | Cyclops blinded by Odysseus |
| Scylla | man eating monster adjacent to Charybdis |
| Charybdis | deadly whirlpool adjacent to Scylla |
| Hermes | messenger god who assisted Odysseus |
| Athena | goddess of wisdom- patron goddess of Odysseus |
| Anticleia | Odysseus's mother who committed suicide and whom he saw in the underworld |
| Tiresias | blind prophet visited by Odysseus in the underworld |
| Priam | king of Troy |
| Menelaus | King of Sparta, husband of Helen |
| Achilles | mightiest of the Greek warriors at Troy |
| Hector | eldest son of Priam, best Trojan warrior, killed by Achilles and drug behind his chariot |
| Posiedon | God of the sea whom Odysseus offended and who then caused much of Odysseus' troubles |
| Melanthe | maid who betrayed Penelope by giving away her weaving trick |
| Agammenon | King of Mycenae, Greek commander in chief, elder brother of Menelaus |
| Laocoon | Trojan soothsayer killed by sea serpent |
| Eurycleia | Odysseus's nurse who recognizes him by a scar |
