Blank that Blank
"Tell me about a_________ ___________"
What is "complicated" and "man"?
This is serious (seriously!)
What is Gravitas?
Left behind in the flames...
Who is Creusa?
T/F: Odysseus does not recognize this home once he gets there.
What is true?
Where we get the word "nostalgia" from...
"___________, tell me who he _____________..."
What is "Muse" and "wandered"?
(BONUS: What is the last word in this verse?)
Start in the middle...
What is In Medias Res?
Otherwise known as Iulus.
Who is Ascanius?
What is false?
BONUS: How does Penelope actually test Odysseus' love/identity?
Where we get the word "pious" or "piety" from...
"and where he_________, and who he__________, the_____________..."
What are "went," "met," and "pain"?
BONUS: what does Odysseus' name actually translate to mean?
Someone who spits bars, as the cool kids say.
Who is a Rhapsode?
Recognizes a hero's scars.
Who is Eurycleia?
Odysseus makes Poseidon a nemesis when he does this...
What is blinds Polymphemus?
BONUS: What is a nemesis?
Heroes often wrestle with these.
What is "hamartia"?
"________and a man, I ____________, an ___________..."
Some say the god Janus (who has many faces) is this.
What is Duplicitous?
He rules over the people who take a wayward and wanted man in...
(BONUS: what is the name of his people/land?)
Turnus makes Aeneas an ultimate nemesis when he does this...
BONUS: Why is Aeneas so angry about this?
A recurring trope in the Aeneid that represents the hero's legacy/inevitability of fate.
What are "branches"?
BONUS: What is a trope?
What are "wound," "queen," "gods," "her," and "power"?
BONUS: Why was Juno outraged?
Sounds "epic," but takes more time.
A leader among many horrible guests.
Who is Antinous?
The symbolic (archetypal) figure Virgil was known for writing about.
What is the "soldier-farmer"?
BONUS: Other than the Aeneid, what other works was Virgil known for?