| A | B |
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| Laertes | father of Odysseus |
| Troy | where the Greeks went to get Helen back |
| Sparta | Helen's hometown, Telemachus went there looking for Odysseus |
| Hades | Underworld |
| Greeks | Achaeans, fought against the Trojans |
| Odysseus | king of Ithaca |
| Anticlea | mother of Odysseus |
| Penelope | wife of Odysseus |
| Telemachus | son of Odyesseus |
| Zeus | controlled the weather, killed all of Odysseus’s men to punish them |
| Athena | goddess of war/wisdom who helps Odysseus |
| Poseidon | god of the sea who seeks revenge on Odysseus |
| Helios | sun god who wants Odysseus's men punished for taking his cattle |
| Hermes | messenger god who helps Odysseus against Circe |
| Aphrodite | goddess of love who helped Paris get Helen |
| Paris | had to judge a beauty contest of goddesses |
| Helen | the most beautiful mortal woman |
| Hector | best Trojan warrior |
| Menelaus | Helen's husband |
| Agamemnon | leader of all the Greek forces |
| Achilles | best Greek warrior |
| Homer | wrote the Odyssey |
| Odyssey | "long journey" |
| Asia Minor | location of Troy |
| Muse | goddess poets pray to for inspiration |
| legend | fictional story based on true events, often with supernatural elements |
| Calypso | goddess who keeps Odysseus on her island |
| Circe | witch who turns men into pigs; tell Odysseus to go to the Underworld |
| Cicones | violent people who outnumber Odysseus's men |
| Lotus eaters | non-violent people who give Odysseus's men a flower that makes them sleepy |
| Cyclopes | race of one-eyed Giants |
| Polyphemus | Cyclops, son of Poseidon |
| wine | used to make the Cyclops sleep |
| cheese, animals | what is in Cylcops' cave |
| reason Odysseus wants to stay on the Cyclops' island | curiosity |
| hospitality | custom of being kind to guests and giving them food/water |
| Nhbody | name Odysseus gives the Cyclops |
| Aeolia | island of the god of the winds |
| Aeolus | god of the winds |
| epic simile | extended comparison using like, as, so, just so, etc. |
| Laestrygonians | cannibals who destroyed all but one of Odysseus’s ships |
| Aeaea | Circe's island |
| Tiresias | blind prophet who gave Odysseus warnings and predictions |
| Erebus | god of darkness |
| Anticlea | Odysseus's mother |
| Persephone | Queen of the Underworld |
| Scylla | 6-headed monster |
| Charybdis | whirlpool |
| Elpenor | drank wine, fell off a roof, but wasn’t buried/asked Odysseus to bury his body |
| Eurylochus | told Odysseus’s men to eat the cattle |
| Sirens | women who used their singing to lure men to their island and kill them |
| Phaeacians | Odysseus told his story to them |
| Eumaeus | swineherd in Ithaca |
| epithet | nickname |
| Argus | Odysseus's faithful dog |
| Antinous | head suitor |
| Eurynome | Penelope's housekeeper |
| Eurymachus | suitor who asks Odysseus to spare his life |
| in medias res | story starts in the middle and the beginning is told later through some kind of flashback |
