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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The main hero; wants to get home to his wife and son	Odysseus	99%
The wife of the above; has been avoiding remarriage for years	Penelope	92%
An immortal goddess who lives alone on an island; kept the main hero captive for many years	Calypso	84%
The son of the above; thinks his father is dead	Telemachus	82%
A demi-goddess who also lives on an island; turns the hero's crew into pigs	Circe	81%
Goddess of wisdom and warfare; helps the hero throughout	Athene	74%
God of the oceans; tries to kill the hero as revenge for him blinding his son	Poseidon	74%
God of travel, thievery, messengers etc.; acts as Zeus' messenger and helps the hero a few times	Hermes	67%
A group of insolent, rude young men; have been trying to court the hero's wife for many years	The Suitors	66%
Son of the above; is a monstrous cyclops who eats some of the hero's crew	Polyphemus	61%
Most beautiful woman in the world; recovered from Troy and happily reunited with her real husband	Helen	55%
Leader of the suitors; is the most rude and is the first to die	Antinous	49%
The most powerful Greek warrior at Troy; a ghost in the underworld	Achilles	48%
A former king of Mycenae who went to Troy but was murdered by his wife at home; a ghost in the underworld	Agamemnon	47%
A mortal princess who discovers the hero by a river	Nausicaa	47%
The greatest Greek hero of all time who completed 12 labours; a ghost in the underworld	Heracles	43%
The father of the above; king of Scherie who hosts the hero	Alcinous	39%
Former nurse of the hero; recognises him by a scar on his leg	Eurycleia	37%
Brother of the above, still alive; happily remarried to the below	Menelaus	34%
Loyal swineherd who serves in the hero's palace	Eumaeus	32%
King of Pylos who went to Troy; tries to help the hero's son	Nestor	29%
A minor sea goddess; aids the hero by giving him a veil to prevent him from drowning	Ino	28%
The mother of the hero; now a ghost in the underworld	Anticleia	20%
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	17%
A loyal cowherd who served in the hero's palace	Philoetius	13%