Odyssey Study Guide Contents

• Odysseus - Wandering Trojan War hero famed for his wiles. He is a favorite of Athena and disliked by Poseidon.
• Laestrygonians - the Laestrygonians are a giant race of cannibals. Their king is Antiphates.
• Circe - she is the daughter of Helios who lives in a mansion in a forest on the island of Aeaea. She is a goddess who uses drugs to transform men into beasts.
• Aeolus - keeper of the winds who lives on a floating island. He hosts Odysseus for a month and then gives him a bag of winds to blow his ships home.

• Eurylochus (Eurylokhos) - a relative of Odysseus who is put in charge of half the men from the remaining black ship of Odysseus. He acts insolently and narrowly avoids execution.
• Tiresias - a blind seer whom Odysseus must speak with in the Underworld
• Elpenor - one of Odysseus' men who falls to his death just before they leave Circe's island.

Profiles of Some of the Major Olympian Gods Involved in the Trojan War

• Poseidon
• Zeus
• Athena
• Hermes