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// __Characters:__ //

// Eumaios: //// Odysseus' loyal swineherd, he assist him in his return to Ithaca and stand with the king and prince against the suitors. //

// Helen: //// Wife of Menelaus and queen of Sparta. Helen’s abduction from Sparta by the Trojans sparked the Trojan War. Her beauty is without parallel, but she is criticized for giving in to her Trojan captors and thereby costing many Greek men their lives. She offers Telemachus assistance in his quest to find his father. //

// Agamemnon: Former king of Mycenae, brother of Menelaus, and commander of the Achaean forces at Troy. Odysseus encounters Agamemnon’s spirit in Hades. Agamemnon was murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus, upon his return from the war. He was later avenged by his son Orestes. Their story is constantly repeated in the Odyssey to offer an inverted image of the fortunes of Odysseus and Telemachus. //

// Ares: He is the god of War. During Odysseus’ tale in book XIV he says that Ares and Athena gave him courage to fight his brothers in Crete. //

// Hermes: //// God of travellers, messenger of the gods, son of Zeus //

Acastos: //He is the King of Doulikhion. He plays a part in the lavish story that Odysseus tells Eumaios.//