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9 Cards in this Set
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Similarities and connections to the Iliad
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begins in medias res
begins with invocation to the Muse deals with aftermath of Trojan War, many of the same characters appear |
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Telemachus
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Odysseus's son
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Poseidon
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against Odysseus
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Athena
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Odysseus's greatest supporter
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Agamemnon
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married to Klytemnestra, has an affair with Aigisthos (they kill Agaem
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Elpenor
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Odysseus saw him in the "after life", fell off roof, broke his neck, no proper burial
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Teiresias
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prophet, seer
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Antikleia
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mother of Odysseus, dies because she misses him so much
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Ajax, Aias
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kills himself because he and Odysseus have a big fight over wanting Achilles armor, he loses
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