Character Descriptions Flashcards by Zak Tucker

Avenged by Orestes; orestes and ______ = tele and ody

Agamemnon – 4 points

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King of Phaeacians;

Alcinous – 3 points

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Kidnapped by Phoenician pirates;

eumaeus

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Finds Odysseus at stream;

Nausicaa – 3 points

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common athena disguise

Mentor – 3 points

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Only parent that dies

Eupeithes – 2 points

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demodocus sings her story

Aphrodite – 2 points

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Gives chariot to ody

Nestor – 3 points

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Cannibalistic giant (w/ 2 eyes) - singular

Antiphates – 2 points

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asked by ody to watch over tele;

Mentor – 3 points

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Tortured by Eumaeus;

Melanthius – 4 points

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Suggests plan to kill Telemachus

Antinous – 3 points

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Keeper of winds;

Aeolus – 3 points

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Murdered by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus;

Agamemnon – 4 points

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Assaults Cassandra

Ajax – 2 points

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angers athena

ajax

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Example for Telemachus to follow

Orestes – 3 points

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she was killed by clytemnestra;

Cassandra – 4 points

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Furious when cattle are eaten

Hyperion

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Tells Agamemnon about suitors’ deaths

Amphimedon – 2 points

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leads ody to alcinous;

Nausicaa – 3 points

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updates ody abt ithaca in Underworld

Anticlea – 3 points

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the goddesses of the arts

Muse – 2 points

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Convinces men to eat Helios’ cattle;

Eurylochus – 2 points

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snitchs who the unloyal maids are,

Eurycleia – 3 points

Warns about Helios’ cattle,

Teiresias

"stolen" by Paris

Helen – 4 points

Cause of Trojan War;

Helen – 4 points

offered by Alcinous to Odysseus

Nausicaa – 3 points

Eats ONE of Odysseus’ men

Antiphates – 2 points

Servant given to Penelope by her father;

Dolius – 2 points

Friend of Telemachus;

Peiraeus – 2 points

Hosts Theoclymenus

Peiraeus – 2 points

ody stays on their island for a year

Circe – 3 points

Prophet in Underworld;

Teiresias

Catches Aphrodite and Ares

Hephaestus – 2 points

avoided by ody on the way there,

Charybdis – 2 points

old man of the sea;

Proteus – 2 points

cowherd that helps ody in final battle

Philoetius – 2 points

Avenges Agamemnon;

Orestes – 3 points

Helps Odysseus and Telemachus throughout the Odyssey

Athena/Athene – 2 points

Messenger god

Hermes – 3 points

leader in helping Odysseus in ridding the suitors

tele

Escorts Telemachus to Sparta

Peisistratus – 2 points

Asks Odysseus to bury him

Elpenor – 2 points

Offers immortality if ody stays;

Calypso – 3 points

Turns men into pigs;

Circe – 3 points

Insults Odysseus during games

Euryalus – 2 points

Sets off to find ody

Telemachus – 2 points

Helios is aka as

hyperion

Sickly and old;

Laertes – 4 points

Greatest Greek warrior;

Achilles – 3 points

Leads recapture of Helen

Menelaus – 3 points

only has one vulnerable spot

Achilles – 3 points

taken from troy by agamemnon;

Cassandra – 4 points

listens to Odysseus’ story;

Alcinous – 3 points

a more rowdy stuity that Throws footstool at disguised ody;

Eurymachus – 3 points

Lacks info on Odysseus;

Nestor – 3 points

Kills Eupeithes

Laertes – 4 points

Killed by Telemachus

Amphinomus – 2 points

Causes Trojan War;

Paris – 4 points

Odysseus tricks them to reverse their spell;

Circe – 3 points

ody must face them alone

Charybdis – 2 points

sexual relaionship with Odysseus for shorter period of time;

Circe – 3 points

un-noteworthy suitor killed by ody

Agelaus – 2 points

gives prophecy in b11,

Teiresias

has a fig tree in them,

Charybdis – 2 points

maid who insults ody

Melantho – 3 points

Hosts Theoclymenus

Peiraeus – 2 points

Dies from grief;

Anticlea – 3 points

Kicks disguised Odysseus;

Melanthius – 4 points

vommits ody's ship back up,

Charybdis – 2 points

suitors suggest this person decides who pene should mary

Icarius – 2 points

Chooses Aphrodite as “fairest”;

Paris – 4 points

Affair with Ares;

Aphrodite – 2 points

Makes ody's journey complicated

poseidon

nausicaa tells ody to make his case for help to this person

Arete – 3 points

Spared by Odysseus bc tele says don't kill him

Phemius – 3 points

Recognizes Telemachus as Odysseus’ son;

Helen – 4 points

Kills Clytemnestra and Aegisthus;

Orestes – 3 points

Seduces ody for a LONG time;

Calypso – 3 points

apollo fell in love with her and she rejected him;

Cassandra – 4 points

Nine goddesses;

Muse – 2 points

this is part of underworld where souls emerge from

Erebus – 2 points

assaulted by ajax in troy;

Cassandra – 4 points

orestes and ______ = tele and ody

Agamemnon – 4 points

Most beautiful woman;

Helen – 4 points

Blinded by Odysseus;

Polyphemus – 2 points

Keeps suitors away w/ laertes shroud

Penelope – 2 points

Travels with tele to Ithaca;

Theoclymenus – 3 points

Killed by Paris;

Achilles – 3 points

Warns Odysseus about how all women are untrustworthy;

Agamemnon – 4 points

ody's sister

ctimene

Affair with Aphrodite;

Ares – 2 points

his Story warns against adultery

Ares – 2 points

Stays loyal to Odysseus for 20 years

pene

Killed by Laertes;

Eupeithes – 2 points

Gives Odysseus moly to resist Circe;

Hermes – 3 points

confesses to wanting to marry ody

Calypso – 3 points

Hits disguised Odysseus with a stool;

antinuous

Tells Calypso to release Odysseus;

Hermes – 3 points

Falls off Circe’s roof and dies;

Elpenor – 2 points

Loyal to Odysseus’ household for a long time

Dolius – 2 points

first person in palace to recognzie disguised ody,

Eurycleia – 3 points

disloyal goatherd

Melanthius – 4 points

Refuses to rescue men from Circe

Eurylochus – 2 points

Deadly whirlpool;

Charybdis – 2 points

non-relative who has known ody since he was a child

Eurycleia – 3 points

first suitor Killed by Odysseus

antinous

Kills Agamemnon w/ Clytemnestra

Aegisthus – 2 points

suitor who Throws ox hoof at Odysseus

Ctesippus – 2 points

Often appears as Mentor

athena

loyal to ody in b14 onwards

eumaeus

Raised by Anticlea as ody's bro;

eumaeus

Suitors suggest sending someone back to this person;

Icarius – 2 points

chose who was the fairest goddess

Paris – 4 points

her Story used as warning about infidelity;

Aphrodite – 2 points

Kills Agamemnon with help of lover;

Clytemnestra – 2 points

gifts a mixing bowl ;

Menelaus – 3 points

Predicts Telemachus’ success;

Theoclymenus – 3 points

Pleads for mercy UNCESSFULLY from Odysseus

Eurymachus – 3 points

hephasteaus

who MAKES (not gives) the mixing bowl that tele receives

first person tele visits;

Nestor – 3 points

Keeps Odysseus for 7 years;

Calypso – 3 points

Sneaks to get weapons;

Melanthius – 4 points

prophet who can't go back home

Theoclymenus – 3 points

god apollo helped kill them,

Achilles – 3 points

Tells Menelaus Odysseus is on Calypso’s island

proteus

Symbol is the eagle

zeus

cowherd that remains loyal to ody;

Philoetius – 2 points

at times Helps Odysseus

Zeus – 2 points

Herald Spared by Odysseus at Telemachus’ request

Medon – 2 points

refuses to help ody the second time

Aeolus – 3 points

Lives on a farm in ithaca;

Laertes – 4 points

Despises Odysseus for blinding Polyphemus;

Poseidon – 2 points

Eats six of Odysseus’ men

Scylla – 2 points

offers ody travel hom

Alcinous – 3 points

gives update on ody's family in ithaca,

Teiresias/Tiresias – 2 points

Calls for Poseidon to take revenge

Polyphemus – 2 points

ody's Palace's bard;

Phemius – 3 points

his Story warns against adultery

Ares – 2 points

Seen as evil and unfaithful women

Clytemnestra – 2 points

Self-proclaimed “King of Thieves”

Autolycus – 2 points

Dissuades suitors from killing Telemachus;

Amphinomus – 2 points

Six-headed monster;

Scylla – 2 points

abducts/wins over Helen;

Paris – 4 points

apollo curses her so no one will believe her prophecies

Cassandra – 4 points

Gives Odysseus bag of wind;

Aeolus – 3 points

Odysseus’ mother;

Anticlea – 3 points

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