King of Ithaca (Adventures of Odysseus)

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My thanks go to my editor, Julie Crisp, for her persistence and faith in King of Ithaca, as well as her hard work in making this book what it is. I would also like to thank Professor Helen King of Reading University for providing notes and comments on the original manuscrips.

GLOSSARY

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Achilles

–

Myrmidon prince; later the principal hero of the Trojan War

Actoris

–

Penelope’s body slave

Aegisthus

–

son of Thyestes; he murdered his uncle and foster-parent, Atreus, the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus

Agamemnon

–

king of Mycenae, and most powerful of the Greeks

Ajax (greater)

–

king of Salamis

Ajax (lesser)

–

prince of Locris

Alybas

–

home city of Eperitus, in northern Greece

Anticleia

–

queen of Ithaca; mother of Odysseus

Antiphus

–

Ithacan guardsman

Aphrodite

–

goddess of love

Apollo

–

archer god, associated with music, song and healing

Arcadia

–

region in the central Peloponnese

Arceisius

–

shepherd boy named after a former king of Ithaca

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