The Odyssey

Penelope

Wife of Odysseus

Telemachus

Son of Odysseus

Antinous

Suitor of Penelope, arrogant, wants to hurt Telemachus

Calypso

Goddess of the sea, imprisons Odysseus because she’s in love with him

Laertes

Father of Odysseus

Polyphemus

Cyclops

Circe

Daughter of Helios, turns Odysseus’ men into pigs, lived in Aeaea

Eumaeus

Friend of Odysseus, helps defeat the suitors

Tiresias

Lived in the underworld, shows Odysseus how to get back to Ithaca and warns him not to eat the cattle.

Scylla

Six-headed monster that swallows sailors with every head

Charybdis

Whirpool that could swallow entire ships