Actaeon - hunter changed into a stag by the goddess Artemis and killed by his
own hounds.

Aegean Sea - arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey. See map

Aeolian Island - home of Aeolus, god of winds. See map.

Agamemmon - Menelaus's brother, leader of the Greeks at the Trojan War.

Agelaus - suitor for Penelope.

Ajax - Greek hero at the Trojan Wars.

Alcinous - king of Phaeacia, father of Nausicaa.

Amphitrite - sea goddes, wife of Poseidon.

Anticleia - mother of Ulysses.

Antinous - suitor of Penelope

Aphrodite - Goddess of love and beauty

Apollo - God of the sun, and poetry, and music

Arcadia - mountain district in the south of the ancient Greece.

Ares - God of war.

Arete - Queen of the Phaeacia, mother of Nausicaa.

Argo - Ulysses' old, faithful hunting hound.

Artemis - Goddess of the chase, or the hunt.

Athene - Goddess of wisdom and battle.

Atlas - Titan who supports the heavens on his shoulders.

Attica - district in southern Greece.

Aulis - Town on the east coast of Greece.

Calypso - Titan sorceress who rules island of Ogygia.

Charybdis - monster who swallows the sea, causing a whirlpool.

Ciconian - a person from village near Troy where Ulysses first stops.

Cimmerian - one of people said to live in perpetual mists and darkness and to
eat shipwrecked sailors.

Circe - sorceress who turns men into animals.

Cretan - person from crete, greek island southeast of mainland. See map.

Cyclops - one of a race of one-eyed giants.

Cythera - island in southern greece.

Demeter - goddess of agriculture.

Diomedes - Greek hero at the Trojan War.

Elpenor - sailor accidentally killed on voyage to Tartarus.

Elysian - place of bliss where heroes and good persons reside after death, see Tartarus

Eos - Goddess of the dawn.

Eris - Goddess of strife and discord.

Ethiopian - person from the reion in the northwest Africa, south of Egypt.

Eumaeus - aged swineherd of Ithaca.

Euryalus - young man of Phaeacia.

Eurymachus - leader os the suitors for Penelope.

Fate - one of the three goddess who determine human destiny.

Fields of Asphodel - meadow where ghosts of heroes wonder, see Tartarus.

Gorgon - monster with snakes for hair and a horrible face that turns people to
stone.

Hades - god of the lower world, the home of the dead.

Hector - Paris's elder brother, leader of the Trojan warriors.

Helen - wife of Menelaus, whose elopement with Paris caused the Trojan War.

Helios - a sun god. Also called Hyperion.

Hellene - a Greek; any one of Ulysses' men.

Hera - wife of Zeus, queen of the gods, goddess of women and marriage.

Heracles - hero renowned for strength and courage. Also called Hercules.

Hermes - god of travel, science, invention, and luck; messenger for the oher
gods.

Hyperion - Sun Titan, sometimes called Helios, whose chariot is the sun.

Hypnos - god of sleep.

Immortal - any god or goddess; anyone who lives forever.

Ino - lesser sea god who rescues Ulysses.

Iros - begger in Ulysses’ court.

Island of the Dawn - home of Circe

Jasion -Titan lover of Demeter, crippled by Zeus.

Libya - part of northern Africa west of Egypt.

Menelaus - King of Sparta, husband of Helen.

Middle Sea - now called Mediterranean.

Minos - king & law giver of Crete who became a judge of the lower world.

Morpheus - god of dreams.

Naiad - lesser goddess guarding water; same as nymph

Nausicaa - princess of Phaecia who finds Ulysses and helps him.

Neoptolemus - Greek hero, son of Achilles.

Nereid - lesser sea goddess.

Nymph - lesser goddess of nature in seas, rivers, hills, trees, etc.

Ocean Stream - great stream supposed to surround all land.

Oceanus - god of the Ocean Stream.

Ogygia - island of Calypso.

Olympus - mountain in northeast Greece, home of the gods.

Oracle - place where Greeks went for interpretations and foretelling of the future.

Orion - famous hunter killed by Artemis.

Paris - prince of Troy, whose elopement with Helen caused the Trojan War.

Penelope - wife of Ulysses, mother of Telemachus.

Perimedes - one of Ulysses crew.

Perse - daughter of Oceanus, grandmother of Circe.

Persephone - goddess of the lower world, wife of Hades.

Phaecia - island west of Greece, home of Nausicaa.

Polyphemus - Cyclops Ulysses binds.

Poseidon - god of the sea.

Priam - king of Troy.

Samos - Greek island in the Aegean Sea.

Scylla - monster who snatches sailors off ships & eats them.

Sicily - island near Italy.

Siren - monster whose singing lures sailors to destruction on the rocks.

Sisyphus - grandfather of Ulysses condemned forever in the lower world to roll a heavy stone up a steep hill.

Sparta - city in Greece, home of Helen & Menelaus.

Styx - river in the lower world that the souls must cross to get to Tartarus.

Tantalus - king punished in the lower world by standing in water up to his chin under branches of fruit, yet unable to reach either.

Tartarus - the lower world; Hades.

Telemachus - prince of Ithaca, son of Ulysses and Penelope.

Thrinacia - island now called Sicily home of Hyperion’s golden cattle.

Tiresias - famous blind prophet, seer

Titan - one of family of giants who ruled the world before the gods of Olympus.

Trojan - person from Troy city in northwest Turkey, site of the Trojan War.

Tyndareus - former king of Sparta, father of Helen.

Ulysses - king of Ithaca, hero of the Trojan War; also known as Odysseus.

Zeus - god of the sky, ruler of the gods and mortals.

Contributed by Nate W and Michael T 2000