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Important Characters

 * Odysseus: King of Ithica
 * Penelope: Odysseus’s wife
 * Telemachus: Odysseus and Penelope’s son
 * Athena: Goddess, daughter of Zeus who watches over Odysseus
 * Zeus: Supreme god and king of Olympus
 * The suitors: Men who came from many different places to marry Penelope
 * Maids: Workers at the house, who followed Penelope everywhere and took care of visitors.
 * Eurycleia: The oldest servant in the house who took care of Odysseus as a baby and still works there, and recognized his scar.
 * Autolikos: Odysseus’s grandfather whom he goes hunting with and gets his scar.