Odyssey

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Achaeans (A-kee'-unz): General term used by Homer to refer to Greeks. 2.139

Acheron (A'-ker-on): River in the Underworld, land of the dead. 10.537

Achilles (A-kil'-eez): Son of Peleus and Thetis. He is the heroic leader of the Myrmidons in the Trojan War and is slain by Paris. Odysseus consults him in the Underworld. 3.117

Aeaea (Ee-ee'-a): Island on which Circe lives. 9.34

Aegisthus (Ee-jis'-thus): Son of Thyestes and Pelopia. He seduces Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon, while Agamemnon is away fighting the Trojan War and helps her slay Agamemnon when he returns. Orestes avenges this action years later by murdering both Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. 1.35

Aegyptus (Ee-jip'-tus): The Nile River. 4.511

Aeolus (Ee'-oh-lus): King of the island Aeolia and keeper of the winds. 10.2

Aeson (Ee'-son): Son of Cretheus and Tyro; father of Jason, leader of the Argonauts. 11.262

Aethon (Ee'-thon): One of Odysseus' aliases used in his conversation with Penelope. 19.199

Agamemnon (A-ga-mem'-non): Son of Atreus and Aerope; brother of Menelaus; husband of Clytemnestra. He commands the Greek forces in the Trojan War. He is killed by his wife and her lover when he returns home; his son, Orestes, avenges this murder. 1.36

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