Deaths
This person was the youngest of Odysseus's men and died after getting drunk on Circe’s island
Who is Elpenor?
Odysseus receives this three-word phrase from Athena along with other gods and goddesses
What is deus ex machina?
____ with the rose-red fingers
Who is Dawn?
Ino gives Odysseus this to get him safely to land after he leaves Ogygia
What is a magic scarf?
“Passage home? Never. Surely you’re plotting something else, goddess, urging me — in a raft — to cross the ocean’s mighty gulfs.”
Who is Odysseus?
This character was known as the worst of the suitors and was first to be murdered by Odysseus
Who is Antinous?
This phrase means pride or self-confidence
What is hubris?
___ with the clear eyes, a goddess
Who is Athena?
Odysseus’s crew upset the voyage when they opened this gift from King Aeolus
What is a bag of wind?
“I will lose all my honor now among the immortals, now there are mortal men who show me no respect— Phaeacians, too, born of my own loins!"
Who is Poseidon?
Grief from her son not returning home, along with old age, killed this female character
Who is Anticleia?
This greek term means homecoming
What is nostos?
____ with the lovely ankles, a sea nymph
Who is Ino?
Hermes gives Odysseus this to prevent Circe from turning him into swine.
What is moly (a magic herb)?
“I don’t know who he is, or whether he comes from sunrise lands or the western lands of evening, but he has come in his wanderings to my palace...”
Who is King Alcinous?
Beggar-Odysseus tried to convince this person to turn away from the suitors in order to counteract a prophecy for his death
Who is Amphinomous?
The Odyssey starts here, with Odysseus on Calypso's island, rather than at the beginning of his journey
What is in media res?
____ with the lovely braids, a nymph-goddess
Odysseus wants to wait for guest-gifts in the Cyclops’ cave; however, there is plenty of this, and his crew wants to take it and leave
What is cheese?
“By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man —some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive — than rule down here over all the breathless dead.”
Who is Achilles?
This king was killed by Aegisthus and Clytemnestra
Who is Agamemnon?
This is when a poet asks for inspiration or knowledge at the beginning of an epic poem
What is the invocation of the muse?
earth-shaker
Who is Poseidon?
King Alcinous says he and the other twelve leaders of Phaeacia must give Odysseus a fresh cloak, shirt, and this as parting gifts
What is a bar of gold?
"It's a crime to host a man or speed him on his way when the blessed deathless gods despise him so. Crawling back like this - it proves the immortals hate you!”
Who is King Aeolus?