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Goddesses
The Odyssey
100
god of the Sun
Who is Helios?
100
wife of Odysseus
Who is Penelope?
100
race of one-eyed giants
What is a Cyclopes?
100
goddesses of love and mother of Eros (Cupid)
Who is Aphrodite?
100
people whom Odysseus' men attack soon after the Greeks leave Troy
Who are the Cicones?
200
King of the Underworld
Who is Hades?
200
wife of Zeus
Who is Hera?
200
sea nymphs who lure sailors to their deaths by singing sweetly
What is a Siren?
200
loveliest among goddess who held Odysseus captive for seven years
Who is Calypso?
200
King of Ithaca
Who is Odysseus?
300
god of all gods
Who is Zeus?
300
wife of Hades
Who is Persephone?
300
three months when Persephone is with Hades
What is winter?
300
goddess of wisdom and warfare; protector of Odysseus during the Trojan War and on his way home from war
Who is Athena?
300
island home of Odysseus
What is Ithaca?
400
god of horses and father of Polyphemus
Who is Poseidon?
400
son of Odysseus
Who is Telemachus?
400
King Aeolia's gift to Odysseus
What is the West Wind?
400
any of the nine goddesses who preside over art, literature, and science
What is a muse?
400
the last foreign land Odysseus visited before returning to Ithaca; the land where he told of his adventures
What is Phaeacia?
500
an earlier generation of gods who were overthrown by Zeus and his followers
Who are the Titans?
500
father of Odysseus
Who is Laertes?
500
the people who destroyed 11 of Odysseus' ships
Who are the Laestrygonians?
500
the first woman; name means "all gifts," and she opened the box which brought grief and trouble to men.
Who is Pandora?
500
the Greek minstrel who collected, organized, and set down in writing the epics The Illiad and The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
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