The Odyssey-Essential Vocabulary

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Nostos

 homecoming; not just returning geographically, but restoring family, status, and identity.

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Xenia

Hospitality; a central moral value in the Odyssey.

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Metis

cunning intelligence; Odysseus' defining quality.

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Homphrosyne

like-mindedness/shared understanding between Odysseus and Penelope.

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Kleos

glory, reputation, lasting fame.

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Oikos

household/family unit.

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Semata

 signs or tokens of recognition.

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Atasthalia

 recklessness, human folly.

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Mnesterophonia

slaughter of the suitors