A larger than life figure, usually male, who goes through a series of challenges and adventures.
What is an epic hero?
100
Leader of the gods who sends down a bolt of lightening that destroys Odysseus's ship.
Who is Zeus?
100
What Odysseus does to his shipmates in order to ignore the Sirens.
What is puts wax in their ears?
100
Wife of Odysseus.
Who is Penelope?
100
Standoffish, reluctant.
What is aloof?
200
"Master Mariner" and "Faithful Penelope" are examples of this.
What is an epithet?
200
God of the sea.
Who is Posidon?
200
This is what Odysseus' men do to disobey him that leads to their final demise. (Please be specific)
What is they kill and eat Helios' cattle.
200
Son of Odysseus.
Who is Telemachus?
200
Party; festivity
What is revelry?
300
“Telemachus began to weep. Salt tears rose from the wells of longing in both men, and cries burst from both of them as keen and fluttering as those of great taloned hawks, whose nestlings farmers take before they fly” is an example of this literary term.
What is epic simile?
300
Goddess of wisdom who helps and disguises Odysseus.
Who is Athena?
300
This is where Circe tells Odysseus he must travel to in order to speak to Tiresias.
What is the Land of the Dead?
300
The first suitor killed.
Who is Antinous?
300
To calm or pacify.
What is assuage?
400
A figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding. "O Father Zeus and gods in bliss forever, punish Odysseus' men!"
What is an apostrophe?
400
God of the underworld.
Who is Hades?
400
This is how Odysseus finally gets back to Ithaca.
What is King Alcinous and his friends sailed him home?
400
Odysseus' swineherd.
Who is Eumaeus.
400
Abundance; excess
What is profusion?
500
Latin for "in the middle of things". When the story begins at the midpoint and relies on flashbacks to discern past events.
What is "in medias res"?
500
God of wine and agriculture.
Who is Dionysus?
500
Why Odysseus decides to sail toward Scylla instead of Charybdis.
What is because he knows the sea monster Scylla will only take some of his men, whereas the whirlpool Charybdis would most likely take the entire ship.