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-lost at sea from Trojan War
-trapped on island by Kalypso
-weeping b/c wants to go home |
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-son of Odysseus and Penelop
-matures from boy to man
-goes on journey to find dad
-is planned to be murdered by suitors |
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-keeps Telemakhos on his way to find Odysseus
-husband of Helen
-wealthy |
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-wise, old man
-happy homecoming |
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-helps Telemkahos on journey to find Odysseus
-disguises as Mentor and Menthes |
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-steals Helen in war
-stole Cytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife
-HUBRIS b/c gods warned him his doom would come, but didn't listen
-killed Agamemnon |
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-mad at Odysseus because he poked the eye out of Polyphemos, the cyclops
-keeping Odysseus out at sea |
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-singer/poet
-sings song of Odysseus' homecoming |
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-mother of Telemakhos
-wife of Odysseus |
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-bad suitor
-HUBRIS
-thinks that it's silly that the gods could've helped Telemakhos and that they could've thought of such a sily idea |
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-bad suitor
-HUBRIS
-thinks that it's Penelope's fault that the suitors are in Odysseus' house in the first place |
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-servant of Odysseus
-worth 20 oxen (expensive)
-keeps watch over all of Odysseus' things (has keys to everything) |
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-killed by Aigisthos
-got wife, Clytemnestra stolen from him by Aigisthos
-wants to make a hekatomb to Athena on their way back from Troy |
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-complains that the people haven't had a council since Odysseus has been gone
-syas this because Telemakhos starting to mature and take action |
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-got eaten by the cyclops
-son of Aigyptios
-Aigyptios doesn't know he's dead |
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-can understand and translate birdflight language into regular language
-birdflight = language of Zeus' birds |
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| -lended Telemakhos his boat so he could go on journey to find Odysseus |
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-2nd Ajax (not one in Trojan War)
-rapes Cassandra |
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-servant of Menelaus
-asks Menelaus if it's ok to let Telemakhos in |
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-wife of Menelaus
-cause of the Trojan War
-conceited |
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-son of Nestor
-borther of Antilokhos, who dies in Trojan War |
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| -brother of Paris and Hector |
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