The Odyssey – Names to KNOW:
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Odysseus (trouble/annoyer)
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Penelope (thread-eye)
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Telemakhos (distant fighter)
Name
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Meaning?
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What they did in The Odyssey
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Help/Hurt or both?=>explain
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Calypso/Kalypso
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Concealer/cloaker
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She kept him for 7 years in her “sea-hollowed caves”
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Both – she did rescue him, but she held him captive until Zeus TOLD her to let him go
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Poseidon |
Husband of Earth (earthquaker)
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Zeus |
Shining One
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Hermes |
Boundary*
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Athena |
Sharp*
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Antinous
Antinoos
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Against thought
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Eurymachus/
Eurymakhos
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Happy fighter
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Polyphemus
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Many fates
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Circe/Kirke
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Possibly “bird” or “turner”
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Scylla |
She who rends
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Charybdis/
Kharybdis
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Whirlpool
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*actual meaning and etymology disputed, debated...
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