Odyssey 1
The setting of the The Trojan War.
What is Troy?
This is the effect of the lotus plant on anyone who eats it.
What is makes them forget about home/family.
King Aeolus provides Odysseus with a bag of this natural phenomenon.
What are the winds?
What are giant?
God of War.
Who is Ares?
Odysseus' son. A mere child when his father left for the Trojan War.
Who is Telemachus?
Odysseus uses this strategy to survive his encounter with the Sirens.
What is tying himself to the mast?
King of Sparta during the Trojan War and the one who stole Helen.
Who is Menelaus?
What is the name of the sorceress who turns men into pigs?
Who is Circe?
Who is Athena?
Poseidon despises Odysseus for this reason.
What is blinding his son?
This is the name of the cyclops whose cave Odysseus and his men find themselves stuck in.
What is Polyphemus?
What does King Aeolus give to Odysseus as a gift?
He gives him a bag of winds and takes the favored wind to get him home out of the bag.
How long does Odysseus stay with the nymph, Calypso.?
Seven years
The highest ranked god in Greek mythology and bearer of the lightning bolt.
Who is Zeus?
Odysseus fought in the Trojan War for this long.
What is ten years?
Odysseus tell the Cyclops this name is while he is trapped in the cave.
What is "Nobody"?
King Aeolus took this gift from this god.
Who is Poseidon?
Odysseus actually ends up staying with Circe for this long?
What is one year?
Messenger of the gods
Who is Hermes?
Odysseus is credited with this plan that effectively ended the Trojan War.
What is the Trojan Horse?
Odysseus and his men blind the cyclops with this tool.
What is sharpened and fire branded spike?
According to Circe, Odysseus must speak to this blind prophet in the Underworld.
Who is Tiresias?
God of the Underworld
Who is Hades?