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| Aeolia | floating island dwelling place of Aeolus, ruler of the winds |
| Aeolus | ruler of the winds |
| Agamemnon | King of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks during the Trojan War |
| Alkinoos | king of the Phaiakians and host of Odysseus during his wanderings |
| Antinoos | one of Penelope's leading suitors |
| Antiphates | king of the Lastrygonians |
| Aphrodite | Greek goddess of love and beauty |
| Ares | Greek god of war, son of Zeus and Hera |
| Arete | Wife of Alkinoos and protectress of Odysseus |
| Argus | faithful dog belonging to Odysseus |
| Athena | Greek goddess of wisdom and protectress of cities and their rulers, guardian of Odysseus |
| Kalypso | sea nymph who held Odysseus prisoner on her island |
| Kassandra | prophetess daughter of Priam whose warnings before the Trojan War were disbelieved |
| Kharybdis | whirlpool encountered by Odysseus |
| KiKones | one of the Thracian tribes raided by Odysseus |
| Kirke | enchantress who turned men into beasts |
| Klytemnestra | wife of Agamemnon |
| Kyklopes | race of one-eyed giants |
| Demodocus | minstrel employed by Alkinoos at the time of Odysseus' visit |
| Eumaios | faithful swineherd of Odysseus |
| Eurykleia | faithful old nurse of Odysseus who recognizes Odysseus by a scar on the leg |
| Eurylokhos | one of Odysseus' strong crew |
| Eurymakhos | one of Penelope's leading suitors |
| Hades | ruler of the underworld, brother of Zeus and Poseidon |
| Helen | wife of King Menelaos of Sparta whose capture leads to the Trojan War |
| Hephaistos | Greek god of fire and the forge, husband of Aphrodite |
| Heracles | another name for Gercules, stronges of all Greek heroes |
| Ithaka | island off the west coast of Greece and home of Odysseus |
| Lakedaimon | another name for Sparta |
| Laistrygonians | cannibal giants who destroyed several ships of Odysseus' fleet |
| Lotus-eaters | people in a perpetual state of drowsiness and forgetfulness induced by eating the lotus flowe |
| Melanthios | traitorous goatherd of Odysseus |
| Menelaos | King of Sparta, husband of Helen, brother of Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks during the War |
| Nausikaa | daughter of Alkinoos who aided Odysseus after he was shipwrecked |
| Nestor | wise old King of Pylos and one of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War |
| Odyssues | King of Ithaka and hero of the Trojan War, forced to spend ten years of wandering before returning home to reclaim his fort and wife |
| Ogygia | island of the sea nymph Kalypso |
| Mt. Olympus | mountain in northern Greece, supposed home of the gods |
| Penelope | wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemakhos |
| Persephone | daughter of Demeter, wife of Hades, and Queen of the Underworld |
| Phaiakians | people ruled by Alkinoos who were visited by Odysseus |
| Polyphemos | a Cyclops encountered by Odysseus and outwitted by him, son of Poseidon |
| Poseidon | god of the sea, brother of Zeus and Hades, father of Pilyphemos, and enemy of Odysseus |
| Proteus | minor sea deity, the Old Man of the Sea |
| Scylla | a sea monster opposite the whirlpool Kharybdis |
| Seirenes | bird-women who could gain power over men with thier song and who delighted in wrecking ships in this manner upon the rocky shores |
| Teiresias | blind prophet of Thebes, consulted in the underworld by Odysseus |
| Telemakhos | son of Odysseus and Penelope |
| Theoklymenos | soothsayer |
| Thrinakia | mythical island on which the herds of the Sun god grazed |
| Troy | ancient city on the coast of Asia Minor |
| Zeus | ruler of all the gods and men, brother of Poseidon and Hades |
| Philoitios | cattle foreman |
| Phemios | the harper in Odysseus' manor |
| Eupeithes | AAntinoos' father |
| Amphinomos | the one suitor who didn't offend Penelope |
| Halitherses | a seer and prophet |
| Theoklymenos | another seer who accompanies Telemakhos home as he returns to Ithaka |
| Medon | the herald of Odysseus' manor |
