Characters
This is the named hero and main character of the Odyssey
Who is Odysseus?
This goddess helps the Greeks in both the iliad and the Odyssey
Who is Athena?
The cyclops is a son of this god
Who is Posiden?
These are the two groups fighting in the war
Who are the Greeks and Trojans?
This is the author of the odyssey
Who is Homer?
This character is Odysseus's son
Who is Telemachues?
This gos helps the Trojans in the iliad
Who is Apollo?
This 6 headed monster attacks odysseus's ship
What/who is scylla?
This is how long odysseus fights in the war plus the amount of time it took to get home
What is 20 years? (10 in war + 10 at sea)
The stories are broken up into this many books
What are 24 books?
This is the famed soldier and leader of the Trojans
Who is Hector?
Odysseus's men are turned to swine by this minor goddess
Who is circle?
These creatures lure in men by singing
Who/what are the sirens?
This is the group who Odysseus tells his story to in book 9
Who are the Phoenicians?
This is when the iliad and odyssey were written
What is between 750-700 B.C.E?
The iliad is stated to be about this characters wrath
Who is Achilles?
This sea nymph is also mother to Achilles
Who is Thetis?
This force of nature is known as the "Devoring Whirlpool"
What is Charybdis?
This character answers Paris's war cry in the iliad
Who is Menelaus?
Troy is located in this modern day country
What is Turkey?
This is Odysseus's father
Who is Laertes?
This god help craft armor for Achilles in the iliad
Who is Hephaestus?
This bewitched tribe is only interested in one thing, which also happens to be their name-sake
Who are the locust-eaters?
This is the island Circe's cave is found on
Where is Ogygia?
Both of these epic poems were part of a much larger collection homer had of items about the trojan war and years following, called this
What is the Greek Epic Cycle?