Epic Conventions
Locations
Odysseus Crew
Characters
The Gods and Odysseus
100
Adjectives that point out special traits of people or things.
What is a stock epithet?
100
This island is where Odysseus is King.
What is Ithaca?
100
The amount of men Odysseus left to Troy with.
What is 600?
100
The Queen, and wife, of Odysseus.
Who is Penelope?
100
This God Allows Athena to help Odysseus.
Who is Zeus?
200
Excessive pride or overconfidence.
What is Hubris?
200
Odysseus sees his mother here.
What is the underworld?
200
This crew member falls of a roof and dies.
Who is Elpenor?
200
This creature is said to have a beautiful voice that causes ships to crash into the rocks.
What is a Siren?
200
This God was whom Polyphemus asked to curse Odysseus and his men.
Who is Poseidon?
300
A muse or deity, usually at or near the beginning of the work.
Epic invocation?
300
Odysseus' men disobey his orders and mutiny, get drunk, and refuse to return to the ship.
What is Ismarus/Troy?
300
This person turns Odysseus crew into pigs.
Who is Circe?
300
The son of Odysseus.
Who is Telemachus?
300
The god of winds.
Who is Aeolus?
400
The involvement of a deity or god in the affairs of humans.
What is Divine intervention?
400
Polyphemus and the other cyclops lived on this island.
What is Sicily?
400
The amount of men Polyphemus ate.
What is 6?
400
This character trapped Odysseus on their island for 7 years, but couldn't make him not want to go home.
Who is Calypso?
400
The messenger of the Gods.
Who is Hermes?
500
The practice of beginning an epic or other narrative by plunging into a crucial situation that is part of a related chain of events.
What is in media res?
500
Scylla and Charybdis live here.
What is the straights of Messina?
500
The amount of men left after the Laestrygonians attacked them.
What is 46?
500
These characters told Odysseus to not harm the cattle.
Who is Tiersesias and Circe?
500
This god threatens to stop the sun from shining if Odysseus men aren't punished.
Who is Helios?