| Characters | Greek Values | Quotes | Book 11 details |
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Who is Orestes
The son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon
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What is Nostos
Longing for home
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Who is Elpenor
“do not abandon me unwept, unburied, to tempt the god’s wrath”
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What is a cow or a lamb
One animal that was sacrificed for Odysseus to gain access to the underworld.
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Who is Elpenor
The crewman who fell of of Circe's roof and broke his neck.
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What is xenia
hospitality
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Who is Teiresias
"you'll find the grazing herds of Helios...Avoid those kine"
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What is Circe's roof
The roof that Elpenor fell off of
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Who is Teiresias
The blind prophet of Thebes
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What is nous
intelligence
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Who is Agamemnon
"Let it be warning to even you. Indulge a women never, and never tell her all you know"
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What is Helios' cattle
The cattle that Tieresias warns Odysseus about
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Who is Agamemnon
The Husband of Clytemnestra, who brutally murdered him with the help of Aegisthus
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What is burial
The only way a soul can rest
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Who is Odysseus
"vowing to slaughter my best heifer for them...as for Teiresias, I swore to sacrfice a black lamb"
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Who is Atreus
Agamenon's father
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Who is Antikleia
The mother of Odysseus
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What is trust or faith.
pitis
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Who is Antikleia
"Forlorn her nights and days go by, her life used up in weeping"
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What is a a lamb
the type of animal was sacrificed to honor Tiersias
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