Characters

Characters in The Odyssey:

**Character list:**

Odysseus - Smart Guy (Trickery)(get cyclopes drunk, wooden horse, name nobody, his men hid under the sheep ) JD - Enchanted women that tried to keep him from his wife (Penelope) JD - He fought monsters not military opponents JD - Family is Important JD - Makes gods mad JD - Greek JK - Player JK - He does what he has to do to protect his men JK - Taunts the cyclops MT

Calypso - Loveliest Goddess JD - Sea goddes Alcinous - King of the land of the Pheacians JK

Laertes - Odysseus's Father JK

Circe - Enchantress JD - Witch powers JK - Turns Odysseus' men into animals BN

Zeus - Greek God (lightning) JD

Cicones - Killed 72 of Odysseus's men JD

Lotus Eaters- - Get hooked on lotus plants and can't leave to go home BN

Cyclopes - Not hospitable JK - Beats other cyclopes JK - Giant JK - Let land grow JK - Uncivilized JK - Lawless JK - Louts JK - Don't like greeks JD - Eat people JD - Started drinking JD - Stupid MT

Apollo - Music god JD - Medicine god JD - Poetry god JK - Prophecy god JK

Poseidon - God of sea MT - Cyclops asks him to avenge him JD - Cyclops father BN

Aeolus - Gardian of winds JK

Laestrygones - Canninbale inhabitaints JD -Ate many of Odysseus' men BN

Eurylochus - A trusted officer of Odysseus JK

Hermes - The god of invention JD - Messenger of the gods BN

Persephone - Undarkened mind JD - Wife of the underworld ruler JK

Tiresias - Knows the way home to Ithica JK - Dead in the underworld JK

Sirens - Bones of dead men rotting JK - Sing mens mind away JK - Defeated by plugging ears with bees wax JD

Scylla - Six heads - Twelve legs like tenticles - Octopus and shark mixed JK - Sets trap with Charbybids (draw boats in cave and open mouth outside to fall into) JD

Charybdis - Giant whirl pool, maelstrom JD - (Female sea monster) JD - sucks up water then spits it out BN

Helios - Sun God JD - Thernacia has his cows JD - The way to get to Ithaca JD

Antinous - A suitor of Penelope JD - Damanding JD - Rude JD

Eurymachus - A suitor of Penelope JD - Demanding JD - Rude JD - Gets shot with an arrow by Odysseus

Telemachus - Odysseus's son BN

Eumaeus - Servant in Odysseus' house JK - Pig herder JK - Bringn Odysseus his bow JD

Philoetius - Servant in Odysseus' house JK - Cow herder JK - Lock the gate JD

Eurycleia - Old female servant JD

Penelope - Odysseus' wife BN - Misses Odysseus from being gone 20 years BN - Gives up on Odysseus coming home JD - Sets up an archry compettion JD

Athena - Goddess JD - Warns Odysseus of the 100 suitors JD

Eurynome - Bathed Odysseus

Hephaestus