Characters 1
Odysseus' son
Telemachus
Odysseus' wife
Penelope
Athena came in like a breath of wind
Simile
Location of the war that lasted 10 years
Troy
Goddess who convinces Zeus to let Odysseus go home
Athena
Goddess holding Odysseus captive on her island
Calypso
Name of the princess of Phacaecia, who clothes Odysseus and brings him home with her.
Nausciaa
Dawn brushed her pale fingers across the sky
Personification
Odysseus is king of:
“Are you a goddess or mortal?/...I've never seen anyone like you,/Man or woman. I look upon you with awe.” What device is Odysseus using here, when he meets Nausicaa?
Hyperbole
White goddess who gives Odysseus a protective veil to shield him in the ocean and river
Ino
A bard whose song of Troy makes Odysseus weep at the Phaeacians feast.
Demodocus
"By now, all the others who had fought at Troy--/At least those who had survived the war and the sea--/were safely back home. Only Odysseus/Still longed to return to his home and his wife."
In medias res
The gods live on
Mount Olympus
The author of the epic, who was reportedly a blind poet
Homer
Odysseus' father
Laertes
King and Queen of Sparta
Menelaus and Helen
"Speak, Immortal One"
Invocation to the Muse
King Alcinous and Queen Arete rule over
Phaeacia
The leader of the suitors
Antinous
King of Pylos
Nestor
Killed Aegisthus after Aeg. murdered his father, married his mother, and stole his throne
Orestes
"Red-haired Menelaus"
Epithet
Telemachus travels to these 2 places to learn about his father's whereabouts
Pylos & Sparta
Eurycleia