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the odyssey
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English
9th Grade
10/26/2006
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odysseus
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king of ithaca
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anticleia
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odysseus' dead mother
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laertes
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odysseus' father
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eupithes
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antinous father
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antinous, eurymachus, others
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penelope's suitors
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eurycleia
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faithful nurse
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penelope
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odysseus' wife
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telemachus
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odysseus' son
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athena
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goddess who intervenes on odysseus behalf
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eumaeus and philoetius
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odysseus' faithful servants
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tiresias
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blind seer in the land of the dead
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nausicaa
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ancinous' daugther
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alcinous
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king of phaeacians
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polyphemus
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a cyclopes and son of poseidon
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poseidon
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god of the sea
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calypso
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nymph goddess
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circe
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goddess-enchantress
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aeolus
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god of the wind
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