Character List of the Odyssey Mr. McCloskey

Character List for "The Odyssey"

Ithaca:
Odysseus
Penelope, his wife
Telemachus, his son
Laertes, his father
Eurycleia, Telemachus’s nurse, house slave
Icarius, Penelope’s father
Halitherses, old warrior
Pisenor, Ithaca’s herald

Telemachus’s journey:
Nestor, king in Pylos
Pisistratus, Nestor’s son
Menelaus, king in Lacadaemon, Sparta
Helen, Queen and wife to Menelaus
Megapenthes, son of Menelaus and a slave
Hermione, Helen’s only child
Eteoneus, advisor to Menelaus

Odysseus’s journey:
Eurylochus, sailor on Odysseus’s ship
Alcinuous, King of Phaeacia
Arete, queen and wife to Alcinuous
Nausicaa, their daughter
Echeneus, eldest lord of Phaeacia
Tiresias, dead seer, blind prophet

Famous people, as from the Trojan War:
Agamemnon, brother to Menelaus, killed by Aegisthus
Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon
Orestes, son of Agamemnon, killed his murderer Aegisthus
Aegisthus, stole Clytemnestra and killed Agamemnon
Dead heroes including Ajax, Achilles, Patroclus, Antilochus
King Priam, king of Troy
Cassandra, Priam’s daughter

Deities and magical creatures:
Zeus, king of the gods
Athena
Hermes, messenger
Poseidon, lord of ocean
Circe
Calypso, a nymph-goddess
Polyphemus, strongest Cyclops and son of Poseidon