Classics: The Odyssey - epithets

Odysseus

long-suffering

cunning

wise

resourceful

master schemer

noble

good

patient

subtle

shrewd

favourite of Zeus

heaven born son of Laertes

glorious

master of ingenuity

Penelope

wise

loyal

white-armed

Telemachus

god-like youth

thoughtful

prudent

shrewd

courteous

Athene

pallas

shining eyes

flashing eyes

bright-eyed

wise

daughter of Zeus

Zeus

the thunderer

gatherer of clouds

king of kings

of the black clouds

son of Cronos

Poseidon

lord of the earthquake

earth shaker

sustainer of the earth

Hermes

giant killer

Calypso

long tresses

plaited tresses

beautiful

beautiful voice

formidable goddess

Suitors

insolent

swaggering

arrogant

boisterous

lordly

Alcinous

mighty

great-hearted

mighty king

godlike

Nausicaa

white-armed

Demodocus

divine bard

Arete

white-armed

Cyclops (Polyphemus)

mighty

great

man-eating

Circe

beautiful

formidable goddess

goddess with the lovely tresses

lovely voice

lady

powerful goddess

voice of a mortal

divine

Eurylochus

noble

Persephone

dread

august

daughter of Zeus

Scylla

the creature with the dreadful bark

the monster of the rocks

Charybdis

dread

awesome

Eumaeus

the swineherd

the good swineherd

honest swineherd