Here are the secrets of my memory palace that I used for my list of Odyssey characters on Wednesday. I just thought I'd take one last walk through before I clear out the palace for our test on Monday.
1. Odysseus: Protagonist. Walking up my driveway, returning home from his journey.
2. Penelope: Wife. A woman wearing a pineapple shirt that greets Odysseus at my front door.
3. Circe: Witch that turns men to pigs. Circe is wearing a witch hat in my brother's room because his room was always a pig sty.
4. Calypso: sea nymph. In my sea-blue room.
5. Agamemnon: king killed by his wife. An egg sits in my bathtub that is filled with blood.
6. Telemachus: son. My brother wearing a sun shirt using the telephone in my parent's bedroom.
7. Anticlea: mother. Woman made of clay sitting on my mother's side of the bed.
8. Laertes: father. My father LAYing on his side of his bed.
9. Achilles: hero of Troy. A giant heel/foot perched on the Trojan horse sitting on a recliner in my living room.
10. Tiresias: blind prophet. A man's tie holding a white cane in another living room recliner.
11. Alcinous: King of the Phaecians. A giant nose on a face sitting on the left end of the couch.
12. Nestor: King of Pylos. A nest resting in a pile of blankets on the right end of the couch.
13. Menelaus: King of Sparta. A man sitting on the left side of the loves-seat wearing a purple and gold Hawaiian lay (the school colors of my high school- the Spartans).
14. Helen: Wife of Menelaus. Sitting next to him on the love-seat wearing a shirt that says Hell.
15. Eumeaus: Swine herd. Standing at the kitchen counter cooking a ham and wearing an apron that says "You may kiss the cook."
16. Eurycleia: Old Maid. An old maid standing at the stove cooking with a clay pot.
17. Melanthius: traitorous goat herd. A goat sitting on the floor of the kitchen crying (he's MELancholy).
18. Antinous: Lead suitor. A giant ant wearing a suit sitting at my father's place at the table.
19. Eurymachus: deceitful suitor. A macho man wearing a suit with a snake wrapped around his arm sitting at the table.
20. Polyphemus: cylops. A cyclops with many femurs sitting at the table.
21. Hermes: messenger god. Opening the back door to deliver mail.
22. Apollo: sun god. The sun-emblem on our patio wall.
23. Athena: goddess of wisdom. An owl (her symbol) sitting at the bird-feeder eating thistle.
24. Aphrodite: goddess of love. A dove with an afro sitting at the other bird-feeder eating a heart.
25. Poseidon: god of the sea. Our poisoned water fountain.
26. Zeus: god of thunder. A lightning bolt with the word "zoo" engraved on it sitting in our porch rocker.
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