Characters & Places in The Odyssey

Wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus

• Eurycleia

• Penelope

• Eumaeus

• Philoetius

Odysseus' faithful dog who dies when he sees his master upon his return to Ithaca

• Argos

• Polyphemus

• Anticlea

• Anphinora

god of the sea; Odysseus' main adversary

• Polyphemus

• Athena

• Apollo

• Poseidon

Odysseus, son of ______________.

• Priam

• Agamemnon

• Laertes

• Zeus

race of one-eyed giants

• Cyclopes

• Cyclops

• Laestrygonians

• Cicones

Transforms Odysseus' crew into swine with a potion

• Calypso

• Circe

• Crimera

• Persephone

Odysseus sees his mother, ____________, in the Underworld.

• Anticlea

• Aphrodite

• Eurycleia

• Helen

6-headed creature who eats 6 of Odysseus' men

• Polyhemus

• Charybdis

• Scylla

• Aeolus

Giant whirlpool capable of destroying an entire ship

• Scylla

• Charybdis

• Circe

• Cicones

He relaims his home and saves his wife and son by defeating 100 suitors who have invaded his territory

• Telemachus

• Philoetius

• Eumaeus

• Odysseus