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29 Cards in this Set
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Who is Antinous
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one of penelope's leading suitors, a mean and arrogant young noble from Ithaca
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Who is Argos
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Odyssesus's old dog
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Eumaeus
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a swinherd, of of odyssesus's loyal servants
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Eurycleia
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odyssesus's old nurse
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Laertes
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odyssesus's old father
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Penelope
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odysseus's faithful wife
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Philoeteus
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a cowherd, loyal servant
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Helen
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the beautiful wife of king Menelaus. she eloped with Paris (prince of troy) and started the Trojan war
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Menelaus
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brother of agamemmon, husband of helen, and king of Lacedaemon, also known as sparta
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nestor
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the wise king of pylos , hero of trojan war
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Aeaa
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the home of Circe , the witch goddess
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Alcinous
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the king of Phaecia, father of Nausicaa (odyssesys tells his story in this guyz court)
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Calypso
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a beautiful goddess-nymph who liveso n Ogygia. keeps O for several years
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Charybdis
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a female monster who sucks in water three times a day to form a deadly whirlpool
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CIrce
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witchgoddess turns O's men into swine
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Cyclops
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one of the Cyclopes, race of bruthis one eyed giants who live solitary lives as shepards, living in sicily
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Cyclops
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one of the Cyclopes, race of bruthis one eyed giants who live solitary lives as shepards, living in sicily
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Erebus
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the land of the dead
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Nausicaa
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the beautiful daughter of the kIng and queen of Phacia
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Polyphemus
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the Cyclops blinded by Odysessus, son of the sea god Poseidon
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Scylla
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a female monster with six serpent heads each had having fangs
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SIrens
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sea nymphs who beautiful and mysterious music lures sailors to steer their ships towards the rocks
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Teiresias
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a famous blind prophet from the city of Thebes met by odysses in the land of the dead
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Athena
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FAV. DAUGHTER OF zEUS; FAVORED the greeks during Trojan War
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Who lost the war?
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troy
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Hermes
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the messenger god
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Olympus
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the mountian home of the gods
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Poseidon
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brother of zeus, god of the sea and earth odysessus enemy
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Zeus
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the most powerful god
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