Vocabulary
foreboding
Odysseus felt a strange foreboding.
What is a bad feeling?
"Row! Row with all your might!” Page 98
Who is Odysseus?
Second in command of Odysseus' ship
Who is Eurylochus?
The island where Penelope and Telemachus live.
What is Ithaca?
The number of Books in Tales From the Odyssey.
What is three?
Peering
Peering secretly through the window I saw her offer them food and wine. Page 116
What is "to look"?
"May Odysseus never reach his home alive!” Page101
Who is Polyphemus/Cyclops?
An immortal enchantress who seeks to prevent Odysseus from returning home.
Who is Circe?
The dark world ruled by the god Hades.
What is the Land of the Dead?
The number of syllables in Polyphemus.
What is four?
distress
His men watched with great distress as he left their camp and headed off into the woods. Page 121
What is upset?
"Bristles sprang out all over each man’s body,” he said. “They began to snort and grunt like pigs. Their heads turned into pigs’ heads.” Page 118
Who is Eurylochus?
A prophet who inhabits the underworld. He meets Odysseus when Odysseus journeys to the underworld He shows Odysseus how to get back to Ithaca and allows Odysseus to communicate with the other souls in Hades.
The island where men were turned into pigs.
What is Circe's Island?
What is page 91?
oath
"You must not fear me now, for I have given you my solemn oath that I will never harm you." Page 132
What is a promise?
“I bring a charm to protect you from the witch’s spell.” Page 124
Who is Hermes?
A cruel king condemned to forever roll a huge rock uphill for eternity.
Who is Sisyphus?
The river that circles the world.
What is Oceanus?
The number of vessels destroyed by the cannibal giants.
What is eleven?
"You must disembark from our ship and travel on foot through a grove of willows and poplars." Page 143
What is "to leave"?
"Why does my magic have no effect on you?” she cried. Page 130
Who is Circe?
The prideful king who angered the gods and was punished with eternal hunger and thirst.
Who was Tantalus?
What is the Island of the Sun God?
The number of men Eurylochus had under his command when the soldiers were turned into pigs.
What is twenty-two?