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43 Cards in this Set
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Odysseus' home
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Ithaca
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The Phonician king who hosts Odysseus
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Alcinous
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The only god who did not pity Odysseus
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Poseidon
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The cyclops blinded by Odysseus
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Polyphemus
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The messenger of the gods known as "the giant killer"
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Hermes
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The flowery fruit that can make men forget their homes
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Lotus
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Father of Odysseus
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Laertes
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Prominent suitor who is the arch-enemy of Telemachus
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Eurymachus
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Imprisoned Odysseus's men in a pig stybefore becoming his lover.
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Circe
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Member of Odysseus' crew who is encountered in the underworld.
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Elpenor
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Young daughter of Alcinous who is tall and beautiful like a goddess.
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Nausicaa
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Sucked down salt water exposing her interior vortex then vomited it up seething over like a cauldron over a blazing fire.
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Charybdis
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Odysseus had to be tied down to listen to their song.
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Sirens
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The god whose cattle was consumed by Odysseus' crew.
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Hyperion
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Giants who pelted rocks down on the ships of Odysseus' expedition.
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Laestrygonians
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Person who claimed responsiblity for the cyclops' suffering.
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Nobody
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Where Odysseus' journey home began.
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Troy
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Nymph, envied by the gods for living with a mortal, who delays Odysseus for seven years.
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Calypso
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The kind of animal cared for by Eumaeus.
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Pig
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Herb with black roots and a white blossom given to Oydsseus by Hermes.
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Moly
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Goddess who protects and helps Odysseus.
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Athene (Athena)
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Creature with a dreadful barb, twelve feet, six scrawny necks, and triple rows of fangs.
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Scylla
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Father of Zeus.
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Cronos
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King of Pylos; the Gerenian charioteer visited by Telemachus.
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Nestor
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Wife of Odysseus.
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Penelope
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Husband of Helen and host of Telemachus.
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Menelaus
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Blind Thegan prophet from whom Odysseus sought advice in Hades.
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Teiresias
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Gave Odysseus a leather bag containing the boisterous energies of the wind.
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Aeolus
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Beautiful wife of Menelaus.
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Helen
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Relationship of Telemachus to Odysseus.
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Son
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God who is cuckolded by his wife Aphrodite and Ares.
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Hephaestus
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The people who were raided during Odysseus first stop on his return from war.
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Cicones
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Goddess who helps disguise Odysseus as well as aiding him while killing Penelope's suitors.
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Athena
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Site of Trojan war.
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Troy
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Plant that Odysseus banned his men from eating.
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Lotus
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Author of The Odyssey and The Illiad.
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Homer
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Who kills Antonous?
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Odysseus
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Three terrible spirits who punish those whose crimes have not been avenged.
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The furies.
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Disguise Odysseus uses when entering Ithaca.
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Beggar
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Land of the Dead/Hell.
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Hades
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Three terrible spirits who punish those whose crimes have not been avenged.
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The furies.
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Disguise Odysseus uses when entering Ithaca.
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Beggar
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Land of the Dead/Hell.
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Hades
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