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| fierce warriors on horseback/foot |
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| fed you lotus flowers which made you think that you didn't want to leave home |
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| Odysseus' encounter with Polyphemus |
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| God of the Wind; put storm in water bag for Odysseus |
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| Evil witch who transforms Odysseus' men into pigs; seduces him to turn his men back to humans |
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| Lord of the Underworld; Odysseus goes here to see the Prophet Teiresias, who tells him how to get home safely. |
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| Creatures who lure you with their beautiful voices and then eat you when close by |
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| ugly, 12-legged, 6-headed, creature who eats 6 men as a toll to pass; a whirl pool symbolizing a tide |
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| Cattle of the Sun God, Helios |
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| Odysseus' foolish men decide to eat the cattle of Helios (who are immortal) and Zeuss strikes their boat with lightning to kille the idiots...except for Odysseus. |
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| nymph who seduces Odysseus for 7 yrs. |
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| listens to Odysseus' story (start of the story) from the part right after the Trojan War. |
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| Finally reaches home but faces hardships, mistrusts, etc. |
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