Statistics for Most-Mentioned Characters and Places in Odyssey

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Freq.	Rank	Answer	First occurrence	% Correct
543	1	Ulysses	or by shipwreck had got safely home except #1, and he, though he was longing to return to his	85%
161	3	Zeus	me, too, about all these things, O daughter of #3, from whatsoever source you may know them. So	75%
142	4	Athena	now he has paid for everything in full." Then #4 said, "Father, son of Saturn, King of kings, it	68%
100	5	Penelope	and speak out to the suitors of his mother #5, who persist in eating up any number of his sheep	66%
53	12	Poseidon	all the gods had now begun to pity him except #12, who still persecuted him without ceasing and	64%
66	8	Troy	and wide after he had sacked the famous town of #8. Many cities did he visit, and many were the	62%
248	2	Telemachus	go to #6, to put heart into #1' son #2; I will embolden him to call the Achaeans in	60%
30	20	Circe	on the chest and made it fast with a bond that #20 had taught him. He had done so before an upper	58%
32	17	Agamemnon	thinking of #25, who had been killed by #17's son Orestes; so he said to the other gods:	53%
20	28	Helen	to him of a bondwoman, for heaven vouchsafed #28 no more children after she had borne Hermione,	53%
91	6	Ithaca	when the gods settled that he should go back to #6; even then, however, when he was among his own	49%
33	16	Calypso	wife and country, was detained by the goddess #16, who had got him into a large cave and wanted to	45%
28	21	Hermes	he knew it would be the death of him; for I sent #21 to warn him not to do either of these things,	43%
30	19	Hades	he was now dead, and had gone to the house of #19; so #15 sat in his seat, sceptre in hand, as	42%
59	10	Menelaus	and ask #15; thence go on to Sparta and visit #10, for he got home last of all the Achaeans; if you	42%
27	23	Apollo	we got to Sunium, which is the point of Athens, #23 with his painless shafts killed Phrontis the	38%
36	15	Nestor	may direct you. First go to #14 and ask #15; thence go on to Sparta and visit #10, for	28%
44	13	Laertes	Our fathers were friends before us, as old #13 will tell you, if you will go and ask him. They	25%
57	11	Antinous	marvelled at the boldness of his speech. Then, #11, son of Eupeithes, said, "The gods seem to have	19%
18	30	Argos	whose name was great over all Hellas and middle #30." "Mother," answered #2, "let the bard	19%
24	24	Eos	Now when the child of morning, rosy-fingered #24, appeared, #2 rose and dressed himself.	19%
70	7	Eumaeus	me." To this you answered, O swineherd #7, "Stranger, though a still poorer man should come	17%
39	14	Pylos	oxen; I will also conduct him to Sparta and to #14, to see if he can hear anything about the return	15%
23	25	Aegisthus	spoke first. At that moment he was thinking of #25, who had been killed by #17's son Orestes;	13%
28	22	Eurymachus	rule those whom #1 has won for me." Then #22, son of Polybus, answered, "It rests with heaven	13%
18	31	Hephaestus	of plate in all my house. It is a mixing-bowl by #31's own hand, of pure silver, except the rim, which	13%
60	9	Alcinous	dead and gone to the house of #19, and King #9, whose counsels were inspired of heaven, was now	11%
21	27	Melanthius	at which all wayfarers used to sacrifice. Here #27 son of Dolius overtook them as he was driving	11%
19	29	Mentor	again." With these words he sat down, and #29 who had been a friend of #1, and had been	11%
32	18	Euryclea	brooding and full of thought. A good old woman, #18, daughter of Ops, the son of Pisenor, went before	8%
23	26	Pisistratus	and bade them take their places. #15's son #26 at once offered his hand to each of them, and sea	8%