Words/people

• Dolos


  Cunning
• Kudos

  Glory
• Kleos


  Reputation
• Nostos 


  Homecoming
• Xenia


  Hospitalit
• Piety


  Respect for gods
• Oikos

  Household
• Timé


  Honour
• Ithaca ruler


  Odysseus
• Sparta ruler

  Menelaus
• Argos ruler

  Agamemnon
• Pylos ruler


  Nestor rules
• Phaeacia ruler


  Alcinous rules
• Odysseus personality


  strategic, wise, clever, war hero. Athena found compelling.

  Zues thinks hes the wisest man, generous, admirable.
• Telemachus personality


  courteous, distant from suitors, vigilant, Xenia, wants his dad back but takes no action, caring.
• Discord


  Evil spirit
• Helen


  Wife of menelaus, got with Paris, the prettiest
• Clytaemnestra 


  Wife of agamemnon, got with aegisthus
• Iphigenia


  Daughter of agamemnon, almost left for dead for menelaus
• Orestes


  Son of agamemnon, filial duty fulfilled, role model for telemachus
• Penelope

  Wife of Odysseus,
• Palamedes


  Collects men for war
• Poseidon


  God of Oceans, divine antagonist
• Hermes


  Messenger god, informs calypso
• Calypso


  Goddess, sea nymph, captures odysseus for 7 years
• Polyphemus


  Son of poseidon, cyclops, blinded by Odysseus
• Mentes


  Neighbouring chief, lowkey irrelevant
• Achaeans


  Greeks
• Antinous


  Hostile suitor ring leader
• Eurymachus


  Snakey suitor ring leader
• Eurycleia


  Raised telemachus, slave of laertes
• Laertes


  Father of Odysseus, respected wife
• Number of maids that turned with the suitors/50


  12
• Halitherses


  Bird interpreter, lowkey irrelevant