Relationship Map
Who loves, helps, hunts, and holds whom. Hover or tap a character to light up their connections; tap their name to open the full guide page.
Placed by hand: gods above, the household on Ithaca to the left, the wanderings out to the right.
- Family
- Allies
- Enemies
- Romance & captors
- Encounters
- Places
Drag anything to move it — each arrangement remembers its own.
Hover or tap a character to see their relationships. Every name also has a full page in the guide.
All relationships as a list
- Odysseus ↔ Penelope — family: husband and wife · Book 1
- Odysseus ↔ Telemachus — family: father and son · Book 1
- Penelope ↔ Telemachus — family: mother and son · Book 1
- Zeus ↔ Athena — family: father and daughter · Book 1
- Zeus ↔ Poseidon — family: brothers · Book 13
- Poseidon ↔ Polyphemus — family: father and son · Book 1
- Athena ↔ Odysseus — allies: protects and guides him · Book 13
- Athena ↔ Telemachus — allies: stirs him to act · Book 1
- Zeus ↔ Odysseus — allies: decrees his homecoming · Book 5
- Eumaeus ↔ Odysseus — allies: his loyal swineherd · Book 14
- Eumaeus ↔ Telemachus — allies: shelters him like a son · Book 16
- Nausicaa ↔ Odysseus — allies: rescues him on Scheria · Book 6
- Poseidon ↔ Odysseus — enemies: persecutes him at sea · Book 5
- Polyphemus ↔ Odysseus — enemies: blinded by his stratagem · Book 9
- Antinous ↔ Odysseus — enemies: leads the suitors; first to fall · Book 22
- Eurymachus ↔ Odysseus — enemies: smooth-tongued suitor; slain · Book 22
- Antinous ↔ Telemachus — enemies: plots his ambush · Book 4
- Calypso ↔ Odysseus — romance & captors: holds him seven years · Book 5
- Circe ↔ Odysseus — romance & captors: keeps him a year on Aeaea · Book 10
- Antinous ↔ Penelope — romance & captors: courts her uninvited · Book 2
- Eurymachus ↔ Penelope — romance & captors: courts her uninvited · Book 2
- The Sirens ↔ Odysseus — encounters: sing to him, lashed to the mast · Book 12
- Scylla and Charybdis ↔ Odysseus — encounters: take six of his men · Book 12
- Poseidon ↔ Nausicaa — family: her great-grandfather · Book 7
- Athena ↔ Nausicaa — allies: staged the beach meeting · Book 6
- Odysseus ↔ Antinous — allies: once saved his father's life · Book 16
- Odysseus ↔ Eumaeus — family: raised in the same house · Book 15
- Zeus ↔ Telemachus — family: decreed his one-son line · Book 16