Nauteus (now´-tee-yus): Phaeacian who competes in the athletic contests during Odysseus’ stay in Scheria. His name suggests “Shipman.” 8.109.
Neaira (nee-ai´-ra): mother, by Helius, of Phaethousa and Lampetia. 12.134.
Neion, Mount (nay´-on): a mountain in Ithaca; alternative name for Mount Neriton. 3.81.
Neleus (nee´-lee-yus): father of Nestor, and his predecessor as king of Pylos. 3.79.
Neoptolemus (nee-op-tol´-e-mus): son of Achilles; leader of the Myrmidons at Troy after his father’s death. 11.508.
Nereids (nee´-ree-ids): nymphs of the sea. 13.104.
Neriton, Mount (ne´-rit-on): a mountain in Ithaca. Also referred to as Mount Neion. 9.24.
Neritus (ne´-ri-tus): one of the builders of an ornate fountain in Ithaca. 17.206.
Nestor (nes´-tor): king of Pylos; son of Neleus; father of Antilochus and Pisistrarus. 1.284.
Nisus (nai´-sus): son of Aretias, and father of Penelope’s suitor Amphinomus, from Dulichium. 16.396.
Noëmon (noh-wee´-mon): son of Phronius. He lends a ship to Telemachus. 2.387.
Notus (noh´-tus): the South Wind. 5.296.
Ocean: the vast river running around the landmass of the world; also a personage. 3.1.
Ocyalus (o-kee´-yal-us): Phaeacian who competes in the athletic contests during Odysseus’ stay in Scheria. His name suggests “Sharpsea.” 8.109.
Odysseus (o-dis´-ee-yus): king of Ithaca; son of Laertes and Anticleia; grandson of Arcesius and Autolycus; father of Telemachus. 1.21.
Oedipus (eed´-i-pus): king of Thebes who killed his father, Laius, and married his mother, Epicaste (known as Jocasta in other versions). 11.272.
Ogygia (o-ji´-ja): the mythical island home of Calypso, where Odysseus washes up and stays for seven years. 1.85.
Oïcles (oh´-i-kles): son of Antiphates and father of the famous Argive warrior-prophet Amphiaraus. 15.245.
Olympus (o-lim´-pus): a mountain in northeastern Thessaly. The tallest peak in Greece, it is home to the Olympian gods. 1.27.
Ops (ops): father of Eurycleia. 1.428.
Orchomenus (or-ko´-me-nus): a city in Boeotia, home to the Minyans. 11.284.
Orestes (o-res´-tees): son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Orestes went into exile after the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, but eventually returned to Mycenae and killed them. 1.30.
Orion (o-rai´-yon): mythical hunter, turned into a constellation after his death. 5.122.
Orsilochus (or-sil´-o-kus): son of Idomoneus, the leader of Cretan forces at Troy. 13.261.
Ortilochus (or-til´-o-kus): son of Alpheus and father of Diocles. 3.489.
Ortygia (or-ti´-ja): a small Sicilian island separated from the mainland by a very narrow channel, although the mention of Ortygia here does not seem to correspond to any real geographical place. 15.406.
Ossa (o´-sa): a mountain in the region of Thessaly, just south of Mount Olympus. 11.315.
Otus (oh´-tus): son of Iphimedeia and Poseidon. 11.309.
Pallas (pal´-las): an epithet used of Athena, of unknown origin and meaning. 1.125.
Pandareus (pan-dar´-ee-yus): king of Crete and father of Aedon, the wife of Theban founder Zethus. 19.520.
Panopeus (pan-oh´-pee-yus): a Greek town near the border of Boeotia. 11.579.
Paphos (pay´-fos): a city in southwest Cyprus; as the supposed site of Aphrodite’s birth, it was an important center of worship of the goddess. 8.362.
Parnassus, Mount (par-nas´-us): a mountain in central Greece where a boar wounded Odysseus during his childhood. 19.395.
Patroclus (pat-ro´-klus): Achilles’ companion; killed by Hector. 3.110.
Pelasgians (pe-las´-jee-ans): a people who were either pre-Greeks or the ancestors of the Greeks, inhabitating regions of Greece, including Crete, Thessaly, and Epirus, and parts of northwestern Asia Minor. 19.177.
Peleus (pee´-lee-us): son of Aeacus; father of Achilles; husband of the Sea Goddess Thetis. 5.311.
Pelias (pee´-lee-as): king of Iolcus and son of Tyro and Poseidon; murdered by his daughters at the persuasion of Medea. 11.254.
Pelion (pee´-lee-on): a mountain in Thessaly. 11.315.
Penelope (pe-ne´-loh-pee): daughter of the Arcadian king Icarius; wife of Odysseus, with whom she has a son, Telemachus. 1.222.
Periboea (pe-ri-boy´-ya): daughter of Eurymedon; mother, by Poseidon, of Nausithous; grandmother of the Phaeacian king Alcinous. 7.60.
Periclymenus (pe-ri-kli´-me-nus): son of Neleus and Chloris. 11.287.
Perimedes (pe-ri-mee´-dees): one of Odysseus’ men. 11.23.
Pero (pai´-ro): daughter of Neleus and Chloris; wooed by Melampus and his brother Bias. 11.288.
Perse (pur´-see): daughter of Ocean; mother, by the Sun God, of Circe and Aeetes. 10.140.
Persephone (pur-se´-fo-nee): goddess; daughter of Zeus and Demeter; and, after he abducted her, wife of Hades. According to mythological tradition, Persephone spends part of the year with her husband Hades in the underworld, and part of the year in the world above with her mother. 10.492.
Perseus (pur´-see-yus): a son of Nestor. 3.413.
Phaea (fai´-ya): a port on the coast of Elis. 15.297.
Phaeacians (fai-yay´-shuns): the inhabitants of the island of Scheria. 5.36.
Phaedimus (fai´-di-mus): king of Sidon. 4.617.
Phaedra (fai´-dra): elder daughter of Minos, the king of Crete; wife of Theseus. 11.322.
Phaestus (fai´-stus): a city in south central Crete. 3.295.
Phaethousa (fai-thoo´-sa): daughter of the Sun God Helius and Neaira; together with her sister, attendant of her father’s cattle. Her name means “Shining.” 12.133.
Pharos (fehr´-os): an island off the coast of Egypt. 4.355.
Pheidon (fay´-don): king of the Thesprotians. 14.316.
Phemius (fee´-mee-yus): bard in the household of Odysseus on Ithaca, 1.154.
Pherae (fehr´-ai): a city in the Peloponnese, between Pylos and Sparta. 3.488.
Pheres (fehr´-eez): son of Tyro and Cretheus. 11.260.