Homeric Character and Places in Ody-C?

[harpier]

After reading the opening issue of Matt Fraction and Christian Ward's new sci-fi series Ody-C, I went down the rabbit hole. I started trying to identify the Homeric equivalents to characters, places, and things in the adaptation. Then I posted a blog entry summarizing my findings (here, and below), but there are still several gaps, and many of them are just guesses/hypotheses until more information is given, e.g., Nuna-Nix.

I'm still struggling with a few, including a major character—Xylot—in Ody-C #1. Does anyone have any theories about who she might be? Any alternative theories for characters or places listed below? My current favorite: the Kamiethi.


BLOG POST:

According to their own description, Ody-C is Matt Fraction and Christian Ward's re-telling of Homer's Odyssey by way of Barbarella. While their sci-fi adventure epic already shows its unique vision and independent sense of story and style, it's riddled with echoes and allusions—some pregnant with meaning, others clever but seemingly inconsequential—to the ancient epic. This is an ever-evolving list of characters, places, and episodes from the comic series and their Homeric equivalents. Some are clear enough—Odyssia for Odysseus—others less so and are eligible for later revision.

[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:
Odyssia = Ὀδυσσεύς (Odysseus)
Penelope = Πηνελόπεια
Gamem = Ἀγαμέμνων (Agamemnon)
Ene = Μενέλαος (Menelaus)
He = Ἑλένη (Helen)
Xylot =
Eurylock = Εὐρύλοχος (Eurylochus)
Tiphu = Ἄντιφος (Antiphus)
Ero (sebex) = perhaps punning on both ἔρως ("love," as Odyssia's lover) and ἥρως ("hero, warrior")
Pen = Ἐλπηνωρ (Elpenor)
Olite =Πολίτης (Polites)
Telem = Τηλέμαχος (Telemachus)

Keles = Ἀχιλλεύς (Achilles)
Hekta = Ἕκτωρ (Hector)
Paris = Πάρις
Priia = Πρίαμος (Priam)
Hecu (sebex) = Ἑκάβη (Hecuba)
Pelenus (sebex) = Πηλεύς (Peleus)
Leda = Λήδα
Tynda = Τυνδάρεως (Tyndareus)
Icaria of Parras = Ἰκάριος (Icarius), husband of Περίβοια (Periboea)
Palam = Παλαμήδης (Palamedes)

Gods and Titans:
Zeus = Ζεύς
Hera = Ἣρα
Promethene = Προμηθεύς (Prometheus)
Poseidon = Ποσειδῶν
Athena = Ἀθηνᾶ
Hermes = Ἑρμῆς
Aphrodite = Ἀφροδίτη
Seri = Ἔρις (Eris)

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)

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 = 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)

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

[TotalSnorefest]

Whoa nice work! My copy turned out to have arrived damaged so I need to wait like 3 weeks for a new one unfortunately, so can't help out at all. But I love the dedication here.