| A | B |
|---|
| Achaeans | collective name for all Greek people, including the citizens of Ithica |
| Aegisthus | son of Thyestes, seducer of Clytemnestra and murderer of Agamemnon, killed by Orestes |
| Hera | offered Euasia to paras |
| Alcinous | king of the Phaeacians, husband of Arete, father of Nausicaa |
| Amphinomus | prophet and king of Argos, son of Oicles, grandfather of Theoclymenus, and one of the Seven Against Thebes who fought and died there |
| Hermes | zeus's messanger |
| Aphrodite | goddess of love, offered helen to paras |
| Arete | Nausicaa's mother, married to Alcinious |
| Artemis | daugher of zeus of leto, apollo's sister, goddess of child birth |
| Ino | daughter of Cadmus |
| Atlas | father of Calypso |
| Leucothea | Ino's other name |
| Methanthis | gave weapons to the suitor - goatheard, bad |
| Melantho | penelope's maid |
| Nausicaa | Alcinious and Arete |
| Ogygia | where calypso lives |
| Death | hades, god of the dead |
| Eidothea | sea-nymph, daughter of Proteus |
| Eurydice | daughter of Clymenus, wife of Nestor |
| Helios | the sun |
| Orestes | son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, the avenger of his father |
| Pallas | epithet of Athena |
| Phaeacinas | people of Alcinous and Arete |
| Phaeacia | place where Alcinous and Arete are king and queen |
| Polyphemus | cyclops, son of Poseidon, blinded by Odysseus |
| Priam | paris's father |
| Sparta | home of Menelaus and Helen |
| Styx | river in the underworld |
| Philoctetes | great archer of the Trojan War |
