Monsters
This monster curses Odysseus after Odysseus blinds him.
Who is Polyphemus?
Odysseus's home
What is Ithaca?
This is the Greek concept of hospitality.
What is xenia?
She is the goddess who turns Odysseus's men into pigs.
Who is Circe?
In the sentence "I heard the sound of screaming from the men," the word "sound" is functioning as this part of a sentence.
What is the direct object?
"Odysseus! Come here! You are well-known from many stories! Glory to the Greeks!"
Who are the Sirens?
Penelope pretends to do this in order to delay the suitors.
What is "weave a funeral shroud for her father-in-law"?
"If any mortal asks you how your eye was mutilated and made blind, say that Odysseus, the city sacker, [...] destroyed your sight."
What is hubris?
"They just shared with them their sweet delicious fruit."
Who are the Lotus Eaters?
In the sentence "He sat beside the pillar and kept his eyes down," the word "sat" is functioning as this part of the sentence.
What is an intransitive verb?
"She has twelve dangling legs and six long necks."
Who/what is Scylla?
This is the name of the man who, in Book 22, was tortured by being tied up and having various body parts removed.
Who is Melanthius?
Calypso: "You cruel, jealous gods! You bear a grudge whenever any goddess takes a man to sleep with as a lover in her bed" (184: 118-20).
What is gender?
"I would prefer to be a workman, hired by a poor man on a peasant farm, than rule as king of all the dead."
Who is Achilles?
In the sentence "Lead me, and I will be behind you right away," the word "lead" is functioning as this part of a sentence.
What is a transitive verb? (Bonus if you say it it in an imperative or command.)
These monsters are giants who ate and killed all but one ship-full of Odysseus's men.
Who are the Laestrygonians?
"The young man sat there, just about to lift his golden goblet, swirling wine around, ready to drink."
Who is Antinous?
"His eyes were always tearful; he wept sweet life away, in longing to go back home" (185: 151-2).
What is nostos vs adventure?
"You must not stick to childhood. You are no longer just a little boy." This character is speaking.
Who is Mentor?
In this sentence, "Move the bedstead, and spread quilts of wool and blankets on it," this phrase functions adverbially.
What is the prepositional phrase "on it"?
This monster is described as "all churning like a boiling cauldron on a huge fire."
Who/what is Charybdis?
Odysseus's loyal swineherd
Who is Eumaeus?
"The six men threw their spears as he had said; at once [she] made their efforts fail."
What is fate vs. free will?
"He fell down crashing headlong from the roof, and broke his neck, right at the spine. His spirit went down to Hades."
Who is Elpenor?
In this sentence, "Inside the court there grew an olive tree with delicate long leaves, full-grown and green," this is the subject.
What is "tree" (or "an olive tree")?