The Gods
Vocabulary
Odysseus
Homer
Monsters and Goddesses
100
The most powerful god.
What is Zeus?
100
Enemy; opponent
What is adversary?
100
The main character in the epic The Odyssey
What is Odysseus?
100
Wrote the epic The Odyssey
What is Homer?
100
One-eyed giant who is the son of Poseidon
What is Cyclops?
200
Messenger god.
What is Hermes?
200
Wool on an animal's chest
What is pectoral fleece?
200
The island kingdom that Odysseus ruled
What is Ithaca?
200
Homer's other epic
What is Illiad?
200
Witch-goddess who turns Odysseus' men into swine
What is Circe?
300
God of the sea and enemy of Odysseus
What is Poseidon?
300
Type of sailboat
What is lugger?
300
Odysseus's trick to get inside of the Trojan palace
What is the wooden-horse trick?
300
Homer's disability
What is blind?
300
Goddess-nymph who keeps Odysseus on her island for seven years
What is Calypso?
400
Goddess of wisdom and helped Odysseus
What is Athena?
400
Another term from Troy
What is Illion?
400
The men who called Odysseus to join them in war
What is Agamemnon and Menelaus?
400
Entertainers or myth-makers of their time
What is rhapsodes?
400
Six-headed serpent who eats several of Odysseus' men
What is Scylla?
500
God of poetry, music, and medicine.
What is Apollo?
500
Fit for the gods; divine
What is ambrosial?
500
The other name Odysseus is referred to by
What is Ulysses?
500
Critic who thought Homer was a woman
What is Robert Graves?
500
Female monster who sucks in water three times a day that forms a deadly whir pool
What is Charybdis?
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