The Odyssey Character Quiz

Guess the name of these characters from Homer's Odyssey.

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Last updated: April 8, 2017

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Hint	Answer
The main hero; wants to get home to his wife and son	Odysseus
The wife of the above; has been avoiding remarriage for years	Penelope
The son of the above; thinks his father is dead	Telemachus
An immortal goddess who lives alone on an island; kept the main hero captive for many years	Calypso
A demi-goddess who also lives on an island; turns the hero's crew into pigs	Circe
A mortal princess who discovers the hero by a river	Nausicaa
The father of the above; king of Scherie who hosts the hero	Alcinous
Goddess of wisdom and warfare; helps the hero throughout	Athene
God of the oceans; tries to kill the hero as revenge for him blinding his son	Poseidon
Son of the above; is a monstrous cyclops who eats some of the hero's crew	Polyphemus
A group of insolent, rude young men; have been trying to court the hero's wife for many years	The Suitors
Leader of the suitors; is the most rude and is the first to die	Antinous
God of travel, thievery, messengers etc.; acts as Zeus' messenger and helps the hero a few times	Hermes
A minor sea goddess; aids the hero by giving him a veil to prevent him from drowning	Ino
Former nurse of the hero; recognises him by a scar on his leg	Eurycleia
The mother of the hero; now a ghost in the underworld	Anticleia
A bard who serves at the palace of the Phaeacian king; sings about Troy and the extramarital affair of the goddess Aphrodite with Ares	Demodocus
Loyal swineherd who serves in the hero's palace	Eumaeus
The most powerful Greek warrior at Troy; a ghost in the underworld	Achilles
The greatest Greek hero of all time who completed 12 labours; a ghost in the underworld	Heracles
A loyal cowherd who served in the hero's palace	Philoetius
A former king of Mycenae who went to Troy but was murdered by his wife at home; a ghost in the underworld	Agamemnon
Brother of the above, still alive; happily remarried to the below	Menelaus
Most beautiful woman in the world; recovered from Troy and happily reunited with her real husband	Helen
King of Pylos who went to Troy; tries to help the hero's son	Nestor