Deaths
Greek Terms & Literary Devices
Epithets
Gifts
Quotes
100

This person was the youngest of Odysseus's men and died after getting drunk on Circe’s island

Who is Elpenor?

100

Odysseus receives this three-word phrase from Athena along with other gods and goddesses 



What is deus ex machina?

100

____ with the rose-red fingers

Who is Dawn?



100

Ino gives Odysseus this to get him safely to land after he leaves Ogygia



What is a magic scarf?

100

“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?



200

This character was known as the worst of the suitors and was first to be murdered by Odysseus 



Who is Antinous?

200

This phrase means pride or self-confidence

What is hubris?

200

___ with the clear eyes, a goddess

Who is Athena?

200

Odysseus’s crew upset the voyage when they open this gift from King Aeolus



What is a bag of wind?



200

“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?

300

Grief from her son not returning home, along with old age, killed this female character 



Who is Anticlea?

300

This greek term means homecoming

What is nostos?

300

____ with the lovely ankles, a sea nymph

Who is Ino?

300

Hermes gives Odysseus this to prevent Circe from turning him into a swine.



What is moly (a magic herb)?



300

 “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?

400

Beggar-Odysseus tried to convince this person to turn away from the suitors in order to counteract a prophecy for his death

Who is Amphinomus?

400

The Odyssey starts here, with Odysseus on Calypso's island, rather than at the beginning of his journey 



What is in medias res?

400

____ with the lovely braids, a nymph-goddess

Who is Calypso?

400

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?



400

“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?



500

This king was killed by Aegisthus and Clytemnestra

Who is Agamemnon?

500

This phrase is used when you seek for people of inspiration to help you tell a story

What is invocation of the muse?

500

Earth-shaker

Who is Poseidon?

500

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?

500

"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 Aeolus?

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