The Odyssey Characters and Background Information

King of the Phaecians, who offers Odysseus hospitality in return for Odysseus sharing his story. He provides him safe passage back to Ithaca.

• Telemachus

• Laertes

• Polythemus

• Alcious

Odysseus' father

• Telemachus

• Polythemus

• Poseidon

• Laertes

One of the Cyclops who imprisions Odysseus and his crew and tries to eat them. Odysseus blinds him and angers his father, Poseidon.

• Homer

• Polythemus

• Agaenmnon

• Tiresias

Wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus.

• Circe

• Calypso

• Athena

• Penelope

The protagonist of The Odyssey. He fought at the Battle of Troy and struggles to return home to Ithaca.

• Odysseus

• Eumacas

• Poseidon

• Telemachus

Odysseus' son.

• Arete

• Alcious

• Telemachus

• Tiresias

God of the sea.

• Zeus

• Circe

• Athena

• Poseidon

Who wrote the Odyssey?

• Odysseus

• Penelope

• Homer

• Troy

Gives Odysseus his prophecy in the underworld

• Circe

• Eumacas

• Zeus

• Tiresias

What war did Odysseus fight in right before his 10year struggle to get home to Ithacca?