| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The main hero; wants to get home to his wife and son | Odysseus | 99%
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| The wife of the above; has been avoiding remarriage for years | Penelope | 93%
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| An immortal goddess who lives alone on an island; kept the main hero captive for many years | Calypso | 85%
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| The son of the above; thinks his father is dead | Telemachus | 84%
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| A demi-goddess who also lives on an island; turns the hero's crew into pigs | Circe | 83%
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| Goddess of wisdom and warfare; helps the hero throughout | Athene | 75%
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| God of the oceans; tries to kill the hero as revenge for him blinding his son | Poseidon | 75%
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| God of travel, thievery, messengers etc.; acts as Zeus' messenger and helps the hero a few times | Hermes | 70%
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| A group of insolent, rude young men; have been trying to court the hero's wife for many years | The Suitors | 67%
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| Son of the above; is a monstrous cyclops who eats some of the hero's crew | Polyphemus | 64%
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| Most beautiful woman in the world; recovered from Troy and happily reunited with her real husband | Helen | 55%
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| The most powerful Greek warrior at Troy; a ghost in the underworld | Achilles | 49%
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| Leader of the suitors; is the most rude and is the first to die | Antinous | 49%
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| The greatest Greek hero of all time who completed 12 labours; a ghost in the underworld | Heracles | 47%
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| A former king of Mycenae who went to Troy but was murdered by his wife at home; a ghost in the underworld | Agamemnon | 46%
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| A mortal princess who discovers the hero by a river | Nausicaa | 46%
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| The father of the above; king of Scherie who hosts the hero | Alcinous | 38%
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| Former nurse of the hero; recognises him by a scar on his leg | Eurycleia | 35%
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| Brother of the above, still alive; happily remarried to the below | Menelaus | 35%
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| Loyal swineherd who serves in the hero's palace | Eumaeus | 31%
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| King of Pylos who went to Troy; tries to help the hero's son | Nestor | 29%
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| A minor sea goddess; aids the hero by giving him a veil to prevent him from drowning | Ino | 26%
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| The mother of the hero; now a ghost in the underworld | Anticleia | 19%
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| A bard who serves at the palace of the Phaeacian king; sings about Troy and the extramarital affair of the goddess Aphrodite with Ares | Demodocus | 16%
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| A loyal cowherd who served in the hero's palace | Philoetius | 11%
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