Odyssey Book I Names

Aegisthus [Son of Thyestes. Cousin of Agamemnon. Rules Mycenae for seven years and is then killed by Orestes.]

Agamemnon [Tantalus' grandson, son of Atreus, husband of Clytemnestra, father of Orestes, Chrysothemis, Laodice, and Iphianassa. King of Mycenae and the Argives.]

Antinous [Son of Eupeithes, the most insolent suitor.]

Calypso ["The concealer." Daughter of Atlas, a goddess who lives in Ogygia where she detains Odysseus for seven years.]

Cyclops [Lawless race of giants.]

Doulichion ["Long land." An island in the Ionian Sea.]

Ephyra [Residence of Augeas, city in northern Elis.]

Eupeithes [Antinous was the son of Eupeithes and leader of the suitors.]

Eurymachus [Son of Polybus; suitor from Ithaca.]

Helios [Sun god. Father of Circe and of Phaethusa and Lampetie.]

Hermes Argeiphontes [Title for Hermes, the messenger god.]

Ilos [Son of Tros, founder of Laomedon; son of Mermeros of Ephyra.]

Ithaca [Odysseus' rocky, island kingdom]

Laertes [Son of Arceisius; aged father of Odysseus.]

Menelaus [Son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon, and husband of Helen. King of Lacedaemon. Wanders 8 years before returning home after the Trojan War.]

Mentes [Son of Anchialus, king of the Taphians, in whose guise Athena visits Telemachus.]

Mermeros [A Mysian, slain by Antilochus (son of Nestor).]

Muse [Nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne who inspire bards.]

Nestor [Old king of Pylos, son of Neleus and Choris.]

Ogygia [Calypso, the daughter of Atlas lived on the island of Ogygia.]

Ops Euryclea (daughter of Ops) is the old nurse of Odysseus and Telemachus.]

Orestes [Son of Agamemnon who returns from Athens to Mycenae and slays Aegisthus after he's ruled for 8 years.]

Pisenor [Father of Ops.]

Phemius [Son of Terpis, a bard from Ithaca.]

Phorcys [Old man of the sea, father of Thousa.]

Polybus [Son of Antenor.]

Polyphemus [Cyclops son of Poseidon and the nymph Thousa.]

Pylos [Nestor was the son of Neleus; aged king of Pylos, returned from Troy.]

Same [Ctesippus, the son of Polytherses, was a suitor from Same, an island near Ithaca.]

Thousa [Nymph daughter of Phorcys; mother of Polyphemus.]

Zakynthus [Island in Odysseus' realm which is south of Same.]