The Odyssey Characters

Wife of Menelaus and queen of Sparta, her abduction by the Trojans sparked the Trojan War.

• Circe

• Helen

• Homer

• Luertes

Former King of Mycenae, brother of Menelaus and commander of Achaean forces at Troy. Odysseus encounters his spirit in Hades. He was murdered by his wife and her lover upon his return from the war.

• Telemachus

• Homer

• Agaenmon

• Tiresuas

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The beautiful daughter of King Alcinous and Queen Arete of the Phaeacians. She discovers Odysseus on the beach at Scheria and ensures his warm reception at her parents' palace.

• Telemachus

• Nausica

• Helen

• Athena

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Queen of the Phaeacians and mother of Nausicaa. She is intelligent an influential.

• Helen

• Nausica

• Arete

• Alcious

King of the Phaecians, who offers Odysseus hospitality in his island kingdom of Scheria. He provides him safe passage back to Ithaca.

• Telemachus

• Laertes

• Polythemus

• Alcious

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Odysseus' aging father, who lives on a farm in Itaca.

• Telemachus

• Polythemus

• Poseidon

• Laertes

One of the Cyclops who imprisions Odysseus and his crew and tries to eat them. Odysseus blinds him and angers his father, Poseidon.

• Homer

• Polythemus

• Agaenmnon

• Tiresias

Wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus.

• Circe

• Calypso

• Athena

• Penelope

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The protagonist of The Odyssey. He fought at the Battle of Troy and struggles to return home to Ithaca.

• Odysseus

• Eumacas

• Poseidon

• Telemachus

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Odysseus' son.

• Arete

• Alcious

• Telemachus

• Tiresias

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