Pronunciation Guide
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Main Characters	Suitors
Odysseus Penelope Telemachus	Amphimedon Antinous Eurynomus Polybus
Olympian Gods
Aphrodite Artemis Ares Athena Demeter Hephaestus Hera Hermes Phoebus Poseidon Zeus
Minor Gods	Races
Aeolus Helios Persephone	Argives Danaans Laestrygonians
Kings, Queens, and Heroes
Achilles Aegisthus Agamemnon Atrides (=son/s of Atreus) Alcinous Arete Atreus Ajax Clytemnestra Eumaeus Laertes Menelaus Nausicaa Orestes Patroclus Pisistratus Priam Tiresias
Nymphs	Places
Calypso Circe	Achaea Ithaca Lacedaemon Mycenae Phaeacia Pylos
Monsters
Charybdis Polyphemus Scylla
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