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This Greek hero spent 10 years trying to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
- Odysseus
- Achilles
- Hector
- Ajax
The island kingdom that Odysseus rules and desperately tries to reach throughout the epic.
- Troy
- Ithaca
- Sparta
- Athens
The ancient Greek poet credited with composing both The Odyssey and The Iliad.
- Virgil
- Sophocles
- Homer
- Aristotle
Odysseus's faithful wife who waits 20 years for his return while fending off suitors.
- Helen
- Circe
- Calypso
- Penelope
Odysseus's son, who sets out on his own journey to find news of his father.
- Telemachus
- Orestes
- Neoptolemus
- Pyrrhus
The one-eyed giant whom Odysseus blinds to escape from his cave.
- Scylla
- Polyphemus
- Charybdis
- Argus
The war that Odysseus fought in for 10 years before beginning his journey home.
- The Trojan War
- The Peloponnesian War
- The Persian War
- The Theban War
The enchantress who transforms Odysseus's men into pigs on her island.
- Calypso
- Penelope
- Circe
- Nausicaa
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