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| the Laestrygonians are a giant race of cannibals. Their king is Antiphates. |
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| she is the daughter of Helios who lives in a mansion in a forest on the island of Aeaea. She is a goddess who uses drugs to transform men into beasts. |
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| Aeolus - keeper of the winds who lives on a floating island. He hosts Odysseus for a month and then gives him a bag of winds to blow his ships home. |
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| Eurylochus (Eurylokhos) - a relative of Odysseus who is put in charge of half the men from the remaining black ship of Odysseus. He acts insolently and narrowly avoids execution. |
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| Tiresias - a blind seer whom Odysseus must speak with in the Underworld |
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| Elpenor - one of Odysseus' men who falls to his death just before they leave Circe's island. |
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| Alcinous - King of Phaeacia and descendant of Poseidon. Alcinous is clearly not as up on the Achaean graces as Nestor or Telemachus. |
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| Cyclops - Sons of the god Poseidon who live on an island as shepherds. Odysseus blinded him. |
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| Polyphemus - One of the Cyclops. He lives in a cave and eats 6 of Odysseus' men before Odysseus blinds and tricks him. |
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| Demodocus (Demodokos) - Blind bard who sings at the Phaeacian court. |
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| Euryalus (Euryalos) - Strong, athletic young Phaeacian who insults Odysseus thinking his refusal to compete was because Odysseus was not an athlete. He is obliged to make recompense to Odysseus. It is thought that handsome Euryalus is comparable to Ares and clever Odysseus to Hephaestus in the 8th Book of the Odyssey since it is there that the story is told of Hephaestus cleverly capturing Ares in a net with Aphrodite. |
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| Nausicaa - Daughter of Queen Arete and King Alcinous, Nausicaa helped Odysseus when he was stranded and says she wants a husband like him. She looks like the goddess Artemis. |
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| Arete - Queen of Phaeacia, mother of Nausicaa, and wife/niece of Alcinous. Like Alcinous, she is a descendant of Poseidon. |
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| Alcinous - King of Phaeacia and descendant of Poseidon. Alcinous is clearly not as up on the Achaean graces as Nestor or Telemachus. |
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| Calypso - A daughter of Atlas, Calypso kept Odysseus for 7 years after he was shipwrecked on the island of Ogygia. |
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| Echeneus - The eldest Phaeacian nobleman who was at Alcinous' palace when Odysseus arrived. He reminded the king of his duty to the stranger. |
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| Phaeacia - (Place.) Also known as Scheria. It may be Corcyra. Odysseus sails a raft and then swims to Phaeacia in Odyssey Book VII. |
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| Leucothoea - Leucothoea was once the mortal Ino, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, but she threw herself into the sea and became the immortal sea creature Leucothoea. She helps Odysseus in Odyssey Book V. |
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