Character Map for The Odyssey
AEOLUS
LAERTES
(Master of the
Winds)
AY-OH-LUS
(Odysseus’ father)
LAY-ER-TEASE
U-PIH-THESE
AN-TIK-LEAH
EUPITHES
(Antinous’
father)
ANTICLEIA
CIRCE
(Goddessenchantress)
(Odysseus’ dead
mother)
ANTINOUS,
EURYMACHUS,
AND OTHERS
SIR-SS
CALYPSO
(Penelope’s suitors)
(nymph-goddess)
U-RICK-LEE-UH
CAH-LIP-SO
EURYCLEIA
(faithful nurse)
POSEIDON
(God of the sea)
PO-SY-DEN
AN-TIN-US
U-RIM-A-CUSS
ODYSSEUS
(King of Ithaca)
O-DIS-E-US
PENELOPE
(Odysseus’ wife)
PE-NEL-O-PEE
POLYPHEMUS
(a Cyclops and son
of Poseidon)
TELEMACHUS
(son of Odysseus and
Penelope)
PA-LEE-FEE-MUS
TE-LUH-MA-CUSS
NAUSICAA
(Alcinous’ daughter)
NAW-SICK-AH
ALCINOUS
ATHENA
(King of Phaeacians)
(goddess who intervenes on
Odysseus’ behalf)
AL-SIN-USS
TIRESIAS
(blind prophet in the
Land of the Dead)
U-THEE-NU
TYE-REE-SEE-US
EUMAEUS AND PHILOETIUS
(Odysseus’ faithful servants)
U-MAY-US
FI-LOW-TIS