| A | B |
| Telemakhos | Odysseus' son |
| Penelope | Odysseus' wife |
| Athena | goddess who helps Odysseus throughout the story |
| Poseidon | god of the sea and earthquakes/ doesn't like Ody. |
| Kalypso | sea nymph who keeps ody. on her island |
| Alkinoos | king who lets Ody. stay in his palace and Ody. tells them his story |
| Laertes | Odysseus' father |
| Menelaos | "red haired captain" & married to Helen |
| Helen | married to Menelaos |
| Aigsthos | killed Agamemnon and had an affair with his wife |
| Antinoos | annoying, obknoxious leader of the suitors |
| Nausikaa | daughter of Alkinoos and Arete & took Ody. to her palace |
| Arete | Married to Alkinoos, Queen |
| Kyklops | giant one-eyed monster who ate 6 of Ody.'s men |
| Aiolos | the wind king & gave Ody. a wind bag so he could sail back home |
| Kirke | goddess who let O stay with her & prepared O and crew for journey & lives on Aiaia |
| Elpenor | man who fell asleep on the roof and fell off and died & his ghost was seen in the Underworld |
| Sirens | women who sing the luring songs that kills the sailors |
| Odysseus | men who embarks on a journey to fight in the Trojan war, but ends up taking 19 years to get home |
| Eurymakhos | old man who said telemakhos should send his mother to her father's house to arrange her wedding |
| Nestor | hospitable to O. & "prince of charioteers" & fought with Ody. |
| Mentor | an old man who used to be a comrade to Ody. |
| Pylos | where nestor lives |
| Mentes | another name for Athena |
| Laistrygons | like a Kyklops ( big, giant monster) |
| Lotos Eaters | flower that made you forget about home |
| Aiaia | island on which Kirke lives |
| Akhilleus | warrior |
| Skylla | thing with many heads that ate 6 of Ody's mean |
| Kharybdis | thing that swallowed sea water (like a whirlpool) |
| Phaiakians | people who lived on Phaiakia (?) |
| Akhaians | people who lived on Akaia (?) |
| Klytaimnestra | Agamemnon's wife |
| Teiresias | Prince of Thebes |
| Skheria | island on which the Phaiakans live |
| Orestes | son of Klytaimnestra & Agamemnon |
| Polyphemos | Cyclops |
| Ogygia | Island where Calypso lives |