+
Related Flashcards
Related Topics
Cards In This Set
| Front | Back |
|
ATHENA
|
Grey-eyed goddess;
daughter of Zeus;
sprang from Zeus' head fully grown and wearing armor;
goddess of warfare
|
|
CHARYBDIS
|
Dangerous whirlpool over which Odysseus must navigate
|
|
CIRCE
|
Goddess;
daughter of Helios the sun-god;
turns half of Odysseus' companions into swine;
Odysseus spends one year with her
|
|
EUMAOIS
|
Odysseus' loyal swineherd;
Odysseus visits the swineherd's hut and receives xenia from him;
Odysseus blesses him
|
|
EURYKLEIA
|
Odysseus' nurse from his childhood;
she recognizes the boar wound on Odysseus' thigh; will identify the disloyal maids whom Telemakhos will hang
|
|
CALLIOPE
|
Muse of epic poetry
[Bonus: learn the names of the nine muses]
|
|
HELEN
|
Daughter of Zeus and Leda; sister of Klytaimestra; wife of Menelaos; most beautiful woman in the world; kidnapping by Paris causes the Trojan War
|
|
KALYPSO
|
Nymph; keeps Odysseus on her island for 7 years; wants him to be her immortal husband; orders delivered by Hermes from Zeus to release Odysseus
|
|
KASSANDRA
|
Given the gift of prophecy; cursed by Apollo for not returning his love; raped by Ajax while praying to Athena at a temple
|
|
MENELAOS
|
Red-haired king; brother of Agamemnon; husband of Helen; visits Proteus to learn news of Odysseus; shows xenia to Telemakhos
|
|
NAUSIKAA
|
Girl of the pretty braids; daughter of King Alkinoos and Queen Arete; welcomes Odysseus to the island of the Phaikaians; shows xenia
|
|
NESTOR
|
Lives on Pylos; friend of Odysseus; welcomes Telemakhos; sends Telemakhos with Nestor's son Peisistratos to visit Menelaos on Sparta
|
|
ODYSSEUS
|
Polutropos; man skilled in all ways contending; master of land ways and sea ways; patient hero; husband of Penelope; father of Telemakhos; polumetis [much wisdom]
|
|
PENELOPE
|
Wife of Odysseus; mother of Telemakhos; skilled in weaving; suggests the axe contest with Eurytos' bow as a means of choosing a husband
|
|
POSEIDON
|
Brother of Zeus; angered by Odysseus' poking out the eye of Poseidon's son Polyphemos; turns the Phaiakian ship to stone when Odysseus arrives on Ithaka
|
