Polyphemus | | One of Odysseus' officers that persuades the men to kill Helios' cattle |
Hermes | | A tribe of gigantic cannibals that eat all of Odysseus' men except one ship |
Aeaea | | A Thracian tribe whose city was raided by Odysseus and his men after leaving Troy |
Telemachus | | King of Ithaca and hero in Homer's The Odyssey |
Poseidon | | Whirlpool thats suck the water down three times a day |
Athena | | The island home of the enchantress Circe |
Charybdis | | The King of the Gods |
Anticleia | | A one-eyed Cyclops and son of Poseidon |
Antinous | | The faithful dog of Odysseus who recognizes him and dies |
Zeus | | The sea nymph who keeps Odysseus captive for seven years |
Argos | | The island home of Aeolus |
Calypso | | The faithful wife of Odysseus |
Syclla | | Wind God that gave Odysseus a bag of winds to try to help him back to Ithaca, but it did not work |
Laertes | | The faithful swineherd of Odysseus |
Ithaca | | The ring-leader of the suitors and the first killed by Odysseus |
Aeolus | | Island home of the sea nymph Calypso |
Eurycleia | | The King of the Phaeacians |
Sirens | | The son of Odysseus and Penelope |
Aeolia | | The enchantress who transforms Odysseus' men into swine |
Eurylochus | | The home of Odysseus |
Ogygia | | Odysseus' nurse that notices him by a scar on his leg |
Hades | | A sea monster with six heads, twelve tentacles, and three rows of teeth |
Cicones | | The father of Odysseus |
Penelope | | The Messenger God |
Odysseus | | The blind prophet Odysseus goes to meet in the Land of the Dead |
Laestrygonians | | The mother of Odysseus |
Alcinous | | Goddess of Wisdom that helps Odysseus through his journey |
Circe | | Women with beautiful voices that cause passing sailors to wreck |
Tiresias | | The Land of the Dead |
Eumaeus | | The God of the Sea that makes Odysseus' journey home hard |