| Freq. | Rank | Answer | First occurrence | % Correct |
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| 543 | 1 | Ulysses | or by shipwreck had got safely home except #1, and he, though he was longing to return to his | 87%
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| 161 | 3 | Zeus | me, too, about all these things, O daughter of #3, from whatsoever source you may know them. So | 73%
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| 142 | 4 | Athena | now he has paid for everything in full." Then #4 said, "Father, son of Saturn, King of kings, it | 70%
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| 53 | 12 | Poseidon | all the gods had now begun to pity him except #12, who still persecuted him without ceasing and | 66%
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| 100 | 5 | Penelope | and speak out to the suitors of his mother #5, who persist in eating up any number of his sheep | 63%
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| 30 | 20 | Circe | on the chest and made it fast with a bond that #20 had taught him. He had done so before an upper | 58%
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| 248 | 2 | Telemachus | go to #6, to put heart into #1' son #2; I will embolden him to call the Achaeans in | 58%
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| 66 | 8 | Troy | and wide after he had sacked the famous town of #8. Many cities did he visit, and many were the | 58%
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| 91 | 6 | Ithaca | when the gods settled that he should go back to #6; even then, however, when he was among his own | 52%
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| 33 | 16 | Calypso | wife and country, was detained by the goddess #16, who had got him into a large cave and wanted to | 48%
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| 32 | 17 | Agamemnon | thinking of #25, who had been killed by #17's son Orestes; so he said to the other gods: | 45%
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| 28 | 21 | Hermes | he knew it would be the death of him; for I sent #21 to warn him not to do either of these things, | 42%
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| 30 | 19 | Hades | he was now dead, and had gone to the house of #19; so #15 sat in his seat, sceptre in hand, as | 37%
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| 20 | 28 | Helen | to him of a bondwoman, for heaven vouchsafed #28 no more children after she had borne Hermione, | 37%
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| 27 | 23 | Apollo | we got to Sunium, which is the point of Athens, #23 with his painless shafts killed Phrontis the | 35%
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| 59 | 10 | Menelaus | and ask #15; thence go on to Sparta and visit #10, for he got home last of all the Achaeans; if you | 35%
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| 36 | 15 | Nestor | may direct you. First go to #14 and ask #15; thence go on to Sparta and visit #10, for | 23%
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| 57 | 11 | Antinous | marvelled at the boldness of his speech. Then, #11, son of Eupeithes, said, "The gods seem to have | 18%
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| 24 | 24 | Eos | Now when the child of morning, rosy-fingered #24, appeared, #2 rose and dressed himself. | 15%
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| 44 | 13 | Laertes | Our fathers were friends before us, as old #13 will tell you, if you will go and ask him. They | 15%
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| 18 | 30 | Argos | whose name was great over all Hellas and middle #30." "Mother," answered #2, "let the bard | 13%
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| 70 | 7 | Eumaeus | me." To this you answered, O swineherd #7, "Stranger, though a still poorer man should come | 13%
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| 28 | 22 | Eurymachus | rule those whom #1 has won for me." Then #22, son of Polybus, answered, "It rests with heaven | 12%
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| 18 | 31 | Hephaestus | of plate in all my house. It is a mixing-bowl by #31's own hand, of pure silver, except the rim, which | 10%
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| 39 | 14 | Pylos | oxen; I will also conduct him to Sparta and to #14, to see if he can hear anything about the return | 9%
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| 19 | 29 | Mentor | again." With these words he sat down, and #29 who had been a friend of #1, and had been | 7%
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| 60 | 9 | Alcinous | dead and gone to the house of #19, and King #9, whose counsels were inspired of heaven, was now | 5%
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| 21 | 27 | Melanthius | at which all wayfarers used to sacrifice. Here #27 son of Dolius overtook them as he was driving | 5%
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| 23 | 25 | Aegisthus | spoke first. At that moment he was thinking of #25, who had been killed by #17's son Orestes; | 3%
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| 32 | 18 | Euryclea | brooding and full of thought. A good old woman, #18, daughter of Ops, the son of Pisenor, went before | 3%
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| 23 | 26 | Pisistratus | and bade them take their places. #15's son #26 at once offered his hand to each of them, and sea | 3%
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