Gods
Epics
Nature Myths
The Odyssey
Misc.
100
This god is the King of Olympus, and wields a powerful lightning bolt to smite those who displease him.
What is Zeus
100
This Greek poet wrote both the Iliad and the Odyssey.
What is Homer?
100
This woman opened a box from the Olympian gods and unleashed several horrors into the world.
What is Pandora?
100
This is Odysseus's son.
What is Telemachus?
200
This goddess is prayed to by military strategists to give them wisdom.
What is Athena?
200
This male of royal lineage suffers a tragic fall while battling the forces of the supernatural and godly.
What is an epic hero?
200
This Titan gave humans the gift of fire, and was saved by Hercules from an eternal curse by Zeus.
What is Prometheus?
200
Odysseus longed for his wife, known by this name, throughout his journey.
What is Penelope?
200
This god uses his power over the seas to prevent Odysseus from returning to Ithaca.
What is Poseidon?
300
This god rides across the sky each day in his sun chariot.
What is Apollo?
300
This path taken by the main character of an epic is known as this.
What is the epic hero cycle?
300
This son of Apollo rode his sun chariot, causing wildfires, a sudden winter, and a flood before his death.
What is Phaethon?
300
She rules over an isolated island populated entirely by females where Odysseus was trapped two years.
What is Calypso?
300
The reason Odysseus's mother took her own life before her son's return.
What is grief/missing her son?
400
She is the goddess of love and beauty.
What is Aphrodite?
400
This man, the most handsome of all of Greece, was punished by Aphrodite for his rejection of Echo, a nymph.
What is Narcissus?
400
This creature and son of Poseidon was speared through his eye by Odysseus's crew.
What is the cyclopes?
400
This vice failed to escape from Pandora's Box.
What is hope?
500
This ugly god, forsaken by his mother Hera, is the blacksmith of Olympus.
What is Hephaestus?
500
An extended comparison that goes on for several lines.
What is an epic simile?
500
Otherwise known as Cupid.
What is Eros?
500
This blind prophet gave advice to Odysseus when he visited the Underworld.
What is Tiresias?
500
This is the city-state Telemachus sailed to in search of his father.
What is Sparta?
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