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Odyssey characters and concepts
This game includes the epic hero cycle, literary concepts, and major characters from The Odyssey.
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| Odysseus | Son of Laertes |
| Penelope | faithful wife |
| Circe | The sea witch |
| Calypso | Offers Odysseus immortality |
| Hermes | messenger god |
| Poseidon | Odysseus angers this god |
| Polyphemus | They put his eye out |
| "Nobody" | Odysseus' false name |
| Telemachus | Odysseus' loyal son |
| Helios | sun god |
| Eumaeus | loyal swineherd |
| Antinous | suitors' leader; first killed |
| Eurymachus | suitor; tries to buy Odysseus off |
| epithet | short descriptive phrase |
| archetype | character/event repeated many times |
| simile | uses like or as |
| epic simile | a long comparison |
| metaphor | "dark be the days" |
| land of the dead | supernatural place |
| personification | objects have human traits |
| muse | inspiration |
| allusion | reference to famous place, person, etc. |
| theme | a key message or lesson |
| internal conflict | character decides what to do |
| external conflict | character faces outside force, monster, etc. |
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Waynesville High School |
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