Character ID
Faithful wife who must delay her suitors through trickery:
Penelope
He recognizes Odysseus, then promptly dies
:(((
Argos
Heroic Homecoming
Nostos
The name of the cyclops
Polyphemus
The evil suitor; first to die in the slaughter
Antinoos
What danger does Telemachus face coming home to Ithaka?
Suitors' ambush
"Tell me, Muse, of the man polytropos"
invocation
Circe
The disloyal goatherd who is tortured after the suitors have been slaughtered.
Melanthos
Eating this makes you forget your Nostos
the Lotus
"enduring Odysseus" is an example of:
epithet
Where we first meet Odysseus in the epic:
Kalypso's Island
The loyal swineherd
Eumaios
Athena uses this disguise in order to aid Telemachus
Mentor
(also Mentes)
An example of this is when the dead suitors are compared to a pile of dead fish.
Epic Simile
Sea monster which eats the remainder of Odysseus' ship
Charybdis
Odysseus’s childhood nurse who recognizes him by his scar:
Eurykleia
Menelaus knew the whereabouts of Odysseus because he was able to capture this shape-shifting sea god
Proteus
This epic convention entails a descent into the Underworld
Katabasis
Tribe of giant cannibals
Laestrygonians
Place these events in the correct order:
A) Circe's Island
B) Aiolia
C) Underworld
D) Trojan War
E) Cyclopes
F) Helios’ Island
G) Kalypso
H) Kikonians
I) Laestrygonians
J) Lotus Eaters
K) Phaikians
L) Skylla & Charybdis
M) Sirens
D
H
J
E
I
B
A
C
M
L
F
G
K