Characters
She tricked people by undoing her sewing when no one was watching.
Penelope
This is Odysseus's island.
Ithaca
The Cyclops wishes that he didn't have a dead olive tree in his cave because Odysseus used this thing to his advantage.
a branch
He is most likely the author of The Odyssey.
Homer
Odysseus gives the Cyclops this fake name as part of his plan to get them out of the cave.
Nobody
She can eat six men at a time.
Scylla
The gods live here.
Mt. Olympus
This smell on the Sun-god’s island made Odysseus realize that they were doomed.
cattle (meat cooking)
When the story begins, Odysseus is on his way home from this war.
The Trojan War
Odysseus appears in this disguise when he goes to meet the Suitors.
His maidens led a naked and dirty Odysseus to the palace and gave him clothes, food, and rest.
King Alcinous
All the remaining crew died after leaving this island.
Circe's Island
Odysseus said, “Unfortunately, there is no time to mourn for them.
comrades
The Odyssey is a long, narrative poem known as this.
Epic
This is the fake plan that Odyssey’s wife makes up to choose a husband from among the 108 naughty men.
String Odysseus's bow and shoot an arrow through 12 axes in a row
The real name of the character who has pet rams.
Polyphemus
You might consider yourself "stuck between a rock and a hard place" here.
The rocks of Scylla and Charybdis.
Odysseus: Since I don’t have one of these, this mast will have to do.
a raft
The Odyssey is written predominately from this point of view.
First Person
This god gives Odysseus a bag of wind, although he does not get to use it.
Aeolus
He is known as the Sun-god.
Helios
Thanks to Hermes, Odysseus was saved from these TWO islands.
Calypso's island and Circe's island
When Odysseus’s men opened the bag of wind, they thought that it contained a treasure that he was keeping from them. They thought that Odysseus was ___ against them.
plotting
The Odyssey does not begin with a real exposition. Instead, it begins in this latin expression which means “in the middle of things.”
in medias res
This is Odysseus’s tragic flaw.
Excessive pride/arrogance