Odysseus

The Odssey

• Greek Epic by Homer

• 725 BC

• The Return of Odysseus

  • 1-4 The quest of Telemachus

  • 5-12 Odysseus wandering

  • 13-24 Odysseus homecoming

Odysseus

• King of Ithaca

• Married to Penelope, father of Telemachus

• Favored by Athena

• Hated by Poseidon

• Roman name Ulysses

Penelope

• Queen of Ithaca

• Mother of Telemachus

• Waits for Odysseus for 20 years

• Holds suitors by weaving a tapestry and destroying it every night

Telemachus

• son of Odysseus

• Prince of Ithica

• Goes on quest to find father

• Helps Odysseus gets revenge on suitors

Circe

• Witch that lives on Aeaea

• turns all of Odysseus’s men into pigs

• becomes Odysseus’s lover for a leave

• Tells him to go to the underworld when he leaves

Calypso

• lives on the Island of Ogygia

• Falls in love with Odysseus, lives with her for 7 years

• won’t marry her for immortality

Polyphemus

• son of Poseidon, Cyclops

• Traps Odysseus in cave, blinded by home

• believes Odyssues’s name is “nobody”

• asks Posideon to mess Odysseus up