
[Note: At least as of the first issue—particularly the mythological timeline and galactic map—there are a number of spelling inconsistencies. As/if these resolve themselves in future issues, they will be standardized below.]
Mortals:
Greeks:
Odyssia = Ὀδυσσεύς (Odysseus)
Gamem = Ἀγαμέμνων (Agamemnon)
Ene = Μενέλαος (Menelaus)
Keles = Ἀχιλλεύς (Achilles)
He, husband of Ene, kidnapped by Paris = Ἑλένη (Helen)
Palam = Παλαμήδης (Palamedes)
Sinane = Σίνων (Sinon)
Pelenus (sebex), mother of Keles = Πηλεύς (Peleus)
Leda, wife of Tynda and mother to He = Λήδα
Tynda, wife of Leda and mother to He = Τυνδάρεως (Tyndareus)
Icaria of Parras, sister to Tynda and mother to Penelope = Ἰκάριος (Icarius), husband of Περίβοια (Periboea)
Crew of the Ody-C:
Xylot =
Eurylock/Eury = Εὐρύλοχος (Eurylochus)
Tiphu = Ἄντιφος (Antiphus)
Pen/Pem = Ἐλπηνωρ (Elpenor)
Olite = Πολίτης (Polites)
Medes, daughter of Sinane = Περιμήδης (Perimedes)
Family of Odyssia:
Penelope, wife of Odyssia = Πηνελόπεια
Ero (sebex), lover of Odyssia = perhaps punning on both ἔρως ("love," as Odyssia's lover) and ἥρως ("hero, warrior")
Telem, son of Odyssia and Penelope= Τηλέμαχος (Telemachus)
Anticlea, mother to Odyssia = Ἀντίκλεα
Trojans:
Hekta = Ἕκτωρ (Hector)
Paris = Πάρις
Priia, mother of Hekta and Paris = Πρίαμος (Priam)
Hecu (sebex), wife of Priia = Ἑκάβη (Hecuba)
Cassan = Κασσάνδρα (Cassandra)
Gods and Titans:
Zeus = Ζεύς
Hera = Ἣρα
Promethene = Προμηθεύς (Prometheus)
Poseidon = Ποσειδῶν
Athena = Ἀθηνᾶ
Hermes = Ἑρμῆς
Aphrodite = Ἀφροδίτη
Seri = Ἔρις (Eris)
C(h)ronus = Κρόνος
Dionysus = Διόνυσος
Apollo = Ἀπόλλων
Aeolus = Αἴολος
Lesser Deities and Monsters:
Amphi(t)rite = Ἀμφιτρίτη
Thetia = Θέτις (Thetis)
Furia = Ἐρινύες (Erinyes/Furies)
Centiladon = centi- + Λάδων (hundred-headed dragon guarding the Garden of the Hesperides)
Herakles = Ἡρακλῆς
Places:
Troiia = Τροία (Troia/Troy)
Ithicaa = Ἰθάκη (Ithaca)
Achaea = Αχαΐα
Atoleia = Αιτωλία (Aetolia)
Mycen = Μυκῆναι (Mycenae)
Aeolia = Αἰολίη
Hespiridia = land of the Ἑσπερίδες (Hesperides)
Cicone = land of the Κίκονες (cf. Ἵσμαρος, Ismaros)
Lotophage = land of the λωτοφάγοι, the lotus-eaters
Kylo(s) = land of the Κύκλωπες, the cyclopes?
Parra =
Valbarra =
Laestyr = land of the Λαιστρυγόνες (cf. Λάμος, Lamos; Τηλέπυλος, Telepylos)
Aeaea = Αἰαία, island of Κίρκη
Calaria =
Sirenium = home of the Σειρῆνες (cf. Sirenum scopuli, Aeneid V.864)
Khary = home of Χάρυβδις
Hyperia = Ὑπερείη
Thrine = Θρινακία (Thrinacia)
Ogyrus = Ὠγυγία (Ogygia), island of Καλυψώ
Nuna-Nix = νῦν ("now," ever-)? + Νύξ ("night"), perhaps the land of the Κιμμέριοι (the Cimmerians), living at the edge of the Land of the Dead
Episodes from The Odyssey:
Cicones = plundering of the Κίκονες (IX.39-66)
Lotophage = sojourn among the Lotus-Eaters, the λωτοφάγοι (IX.82-104)
Wine of Apollo's priestess = Ὀδυσσεύς receives gifts of sweet wine from Μάρων, son of Ἐυαντῆς and grandson of Διόνυσος, for kindness in Ἴσμαρος, island home of the Κίκονες (IX.196-211)
Feast on the Satyrs: Ὀδυσσεύς and his men feed on the wild goats in the land of the Κύκλωπες (IX.152-165)
Cyclops of Kylos: capture by the κύκλωψ, son of Ποσειδῶν (IX.105-370)
Cosmoquanta Corpus Callsoum [sic] = presumably corpus callosum (lit., "hard-skinned body"), the white matter commissure between the cerebral hemispheres
The Kamiethi = τῇ καλλίστῃ (ΤΗΙ ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΗΙ) 'for the most beautiful', carved into the golden apple stolen from the Hesperides
Thumos = θυμός (cf. anima), 'the soul, spirit, heart; desire, will, passion' — the seat of both thought and anger in the heart
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