Who/Where/What
This goddess helps both Telemachus and Odysseus again and again throughout the opening books.
Who is Athena?
At the beginning of the poem, this group is eating Odysseus’ food, pressuring Penelope, and creating disorder in Ithaca.
Who are the suitors?
This competition proves Odysseus' strength to the Phaeacians.
What is the discus throw?
This food makes Odysseus’ men forget home and lose the desire to return.
What is the lotus?
Who tells the suitors about Penelope's trick?
One of Penelope's servants/maids.
This island is where Odysseus is trapped with Calypso when we first see him directly.
What is Ogygia?
This is the trick Penelope uses to delay remarriage.
What is weaving and then secretly undoing Laertes’ burial shroud?
Odysseus rejects this offer from Calypso, even though it would free him from ordinary human death.
What is immortality?
Odysseus tells the Cyclops that his name is this.
What is "No Man"?
This character complains that goddesses are judged differently than male gods when they take mortal lovers.
Who is Calypso?
This Phaeacian princess finds Odysseus on the shore and helps him re-enter society.
Who is Nausicaa?
This older hero in Pylos tells Telemachus about Orestes, Agamemnon, and Aegisthus.
Who is Nestor?
This god gives Odysseus moly.
Who is Hermes?
This keeper of the winds gives Odysseus a bag that almost gets him home.
Who is Aeolus?
“Menelaus’ wife whose abduction/elopement helps spark the Trojan War.”
Who is Helen?
This queen matters so much in Phaeacia that Athena tells Odysseus to appeal to her first.
Who is Arete?
Why does the poem keep bringing up Orestes in the early books?
Because he serves as a model and warning for Telemachus — a son who restores his father’s house.
This soldier dies on Circe’s island and asks Odysseus for proper burial rites.
Who is Elpenor?
This monster takes six of Odysseus’ men when he chooses the lesser evil instead of total destruction.
Who is Scylla?
These are the three goddesses who each claim to be ‘the fairest.’
Hera, Aphrodite, Athena
This prophet in the Underworld tells Odysseus what must be avoided if he wants any chance of getting home.
Who is Tiresias?
By the end of Book 4, how has Telemachus changed from the beginning of the poem? Give one clear example.
He has moved from passive frustration to action: he speaks publicly, leaves Ithaca, seeks news of Odysseus, and becomes threatening enough that the suitors want him dead.
This prophet tells the suitors that when Odysseus comes back, he will kill them all.
Who is Halitherses?
What curse does Polyphemus ask Poseidon to place on Odysseus?
That Odysseus return home late, alone, after losing all his men, and find trouble in his house.
She plots and kills Agamemnon.
Clytemnestra