Characters:
Odysseus -  King, stuck on Calpyso's island
Telemachos - Odysseus's son, tries to find his father, tries to stand up against the suitors.
Penelope - wife of Odysseus, mother of Telemachos, has many suitors.
Athena - Goddess of wisdom and warfare.
Poseidon - god of the sea.
Mentes - Odysseus's old friend, Athena's first disguised to talk to Telemachos
Calypso - A nymph who keeps Odysseus on her island
Mentor - Odysseus's friend, Athena's second disguise to travel with Telemachos
Nestor - The king of Pylos.
Menelaus - Agamemnon's brother, won battle of Troy, king of Sparta, husband to Helen.
Helen - Wife of Menelaus, Helen of Troy.
Agamemnon - Menelaus's brother, Orestes father, is killed by Aegisthus.
Orestes - Agamemnon's son, kills his mother and her new husband.
Aegisthus - Courts and marries Agamemnon's wife, kills Agamemnon, is killed by Orestes.
Clytemnestra - Wife of Agamemnon, marries Aegisthus, is killed by Orestes.
Ajax - War hero from Troy.
Zeus - God of gods.
Antinous - A persistant suitor.
Eurymachus - A persistant suitor.
Aegypitus - wise Ithican leader.
Laertes - Odysseus's father.
Icarius - Penelope's father.
Hailtherses - Soothsayer, points out quarreling Eagles.
Eurycleia - Telemachos's nurse.
Pisistratus - Nestor's son, friend of Telemachos.
Hermes - The messenger of the gods.
Inon - The  queen of Thebes, helps Odysseus escape Poseidon's wrath.
Nausicaa - Phaeation princess, helps Odysseus when he washes up on the beach.
Alcinous - Phaeation king, asks Odysseus to marry his daughter.
Arete - Phaeation queen, approves Odysseus's request for a boat.
Demodocus - Blind poet, recites poems that makes Odysseus cry.
Broadsea - Young Phaeation man who insults Odysseus but is beaten by him.
Ares - God of war.
Aphrodite - Goddess of love.
Polyphemus - The cyclops Odysseus blinded, son of Poseidon.
Aeolos - Manager of the winds.
Eurylochos - Sailor who is "loyal" but convinces the sailors to disobey Odysseus.
Persephone - Wife of Hades, lured into Hell .
Helios - Sun god.
Perimedes - Sailor.
Tierisias - Prophet that lives in Hades.
Anticleia - Odysseus's mother, died while he was away.
Tityos - Liver pecked out by vultures every day.
Scylla - Six-headed monster.
Charybdis - Monster that eats ships.
Sisyphus - Pushes a boulder to the top of hill only for it to roll down when he reaches the top.
Tantalus - Can't eat or drink anything although it is all around him.
Sirens - Sing songs to lure men in so they can kill them.
Eumaeus - Odysseus's loyal swineherd who lets him stay in his hut before returning to town.