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The Odyssey names to know

Page history last edited by Jane Smith-Vaniz 7 years, 3 months ago

The Odyssey – Names to KNOW:

  • Odysseus (trouble/annoyer)

  • Penelope (thread-eye)

  • Telemakhos (distant fighter)

Name

Meaning?

What they did in The Odyssey

  Help/Hurt or both?=>explain

Calypso/Kalypso

Concealer/cloaker

She kept him for 7 years in her “sea-hollowed caves”

Both – she did rescue him, but she held him captive until Zeus TOLD her to let him go

Poseidon

Husband of Earth (earthquaker)

 

 

   
Zeus

Shining One

 

 

 

   
Hermes 

Boundary*

 

 

 

   
Athena 

Sharp*

 

 

 

   

Antinous

Antinoos

 

 

Against thought

 

 

Eurymachus/

Eurymakhos 

 

 

 

Happy fighter

 

 

Polyphemus

 

 

 

Many fates

 

 

Circe/Kirke

 

 

Possibly “bird” or “turner”

 

 

 

Scylla

She who rends

 

 

   

Charybdis/

Kharybdis

Whirlpool

 

 

   

*actual meaning and etymology disputed, debated...

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