dangerous beings
challengers
major characters
places
minor characters
100
goddess of strife; sister of Ares
Who is Eris?
100
monstrously beautiful women with lovely voices who lure sailors to their drowning deaths
Who are the Sirens?
100
daughter of Zeus and Leda; queen of Sparta
Who is Helen?
100
mountain where Paris tended his sheep
What is Mt. Ida?
100
Odysseus's "pal"
Who is Palemedes?
200
Circe turned her into a hideous snake-headed monster because she rejected Glaucus's love.
Who is Scylla?
200
A once beautiful water nymph who was changed to a man-eating monster with six snake heads
Who is Scylla?
200
beautiful shepherd who chooses "the fairest" of three goddesses
Who is Paris?
200
Thrinacia
What is the island where the cattle of Hyperion were pastured?
200
Laocoon
Who is the Trojan who recognized that the Greek horse gift was a trick?
300
Odysseus's crew ate this substance, forgot their homes and families, and had to be dragged back to the ship.
What is the lotus flower or lotus leaf?
300
a giant whirlpool who sucks up the sea and vomits it back again--"a bottomless hole"
What is Charybdis
300
goddess who aided Paris in the abduction of Helen
Who is Aphrodite?
300
Scheria
What is the country of the Phaeacians?
300
Glaucus
Who is the whiner who complained to Circe that Scylla wouldn't love him?
400
a race of one-eyed giants, one of whom is a son of Poseidon
Who are the Cyclopes
400
the daughter of sun, guess she liked bacon
Who is Circe?
400
King of Sparta
Who is Menelaus?
400
Aeaean Isle
What is Circe's island?
400
He saw "lions and tigers and wolves" who were "not at all fierce."
Who is Eurylochus?
500
"No-man"
Who is Norman, a bad speller? hahahahaha OK, what is the name Odysseus tells Polyphemous?
500
a sea nymph who found someone washed up on her beach and decided to keep him
Who is Calypso?
500
couple whose wedding invitations caused the Trojan War
Who are Peleus and Thetis?
500
modern day area where Troy was
What is Turkey?
500
the blind bard who recites the story of the Trojan horse
Who is Demodocus?
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