| A | B |
|---|
| Acheans | Greek People |
| Aegisthus | Clytemnestra's Lover |
| Agememnon | Husband of Clytemnestra, Cheif of the Greek Army |
| Alcinous | King of Phaecia |
| Amphinomus | A suitor killed by Telemachus |
| Antinous | Leading Suitor |
| Aphrodite | Goddess of Love |
| Arete | Queen of Phaecia, wife of Alcinous |
| Artemis | Goddess of the hunt, Apollo's twin sister |
| Athena | Daugther of Zeus, defender of Acheans |
| Atlas | Titan who upholds the pillars seperating earth and sky |
| Calypso | Nymph, who live on Ogygia island |
| Circe | Goddess of Aeaea |
| Clytemnestra | Wife of Agememnon, lover of Aegisthus |
| Cylcops | A cannibal clan of one eyed giants |
| Dawn | Goddess of the morning |
| Death, Hades | God of the Dead, husband to Persphone |
| Eidothea | Dauther of Proteus |
| Eurycleia | Old nurse of Odysseus and Telemachus, and attendant of Penelope |
| Eurydice | Wife of Nestor |
| Eurymachus | Leading Suitor |
| Helen | Wife of Menalaus, abduction by Paris lead to the Trojan War |
| Helios | God of the Sun |
| Hera | Wife of Zeus |
| Hermes | Messanger of the Gods |
| Ino | Daughter of Cadmus, turned Nymph, helped Odysseus make it to Phaecia |
| Ithaca | Home of Odysseus |
| Ithacans | People of Ithaca |
| Laertes | Father of Odysseus |
| Leucothea | Ino's other name |
| Menelaus | King of Sparta, brother of Agememnon |
| Mentes | King of the Taphians |
| Mentor | Ithican friend of Odysseus, Athena takes his form |
| Muse | Goddess, daugther of Zeus |
| Nausicaa | Daugther of Alcinous and Arete |
| Nestor | King of Pylos |
| Odysseus | King of Ithaca, song of Laertes, and Anticlea |
| Ogygia | Island where Calypso lives |
| Olympus | Home of the gods |
| Orestes | Son on Agememnon, kills Agethius |
| Pallas | Athena's other name |
| Penelope | Wife of Odysseus, mother of Telemachus |
| Phaecians | Inhabitants of Phaecia |
| Polyphemus | Cyclops that Odysseus blinds, son of Poisidon |
| Poseidon | God of the sea, father of Polyphemus |
| Priam | King of Troy |
| Sparta | Capitol city of Lacedaemon |
| Styx | River seperating the earth from the underworld |
| Telemachus | Son of Odysseus |
| Trojans | People of Troy |
| Zeus | King of the Gods |
| Cadmus | Founder of Thebes |
| Melanthius | Goatherd |
