People
This person washes the feet of Odysseus
Eurycleia
Father of Odysseus
Laertes
How does Eurycleia recognize Odysseus?
scar on his foot from a boar attack
What is the contest that Penelope sets up for the suitors?
String Odysseus' bow and shoot an arrow through 12 axes
What important element of Greek culture do the suitors defy? (Also a theme)
Hospitality
This person tries to string the bow first
Telemachus
This person is the cowherd who almost recognizes Odysseus
Philoteus
What excuse will Telemachus give if the suitors ask why he is moving their weapons?
They are damaged by fire, or to stop them from hurting themselves when they get drunk
How did PENELOPE trick the suitors?
She pretended to weave a burial shroud for Laertes, but unraveled her work each night.
Name 3 femme fatale/seductresses archetype examples in The Odyssey.
Circe, Calypso, The Sirens
Interprets the sign to NOT kill Telemachus
Amphinomous
Interprets the signs about the suitors death?
Theoclymenus
What does Theoclymenus see in the hall that scares him?
suitors as ghost, blood everywhere and on the walls
What does Odysseus act Eumaeus to do before Chapter 22?
gather up the weapons and armor with Telemachus, and shut the door to the women's quarters
What is the climax of The Odyssey?
Odysseus successfully proves his identity by shooting an arrow through twelve axe handles, a feat which Penelope's suitors failed.
First suitor to die
This non-suitor gets butchered for handing out weapons to the suitors
Melanthius
Why don't the men immediately attack Odysseus after he kills Antinous?
They thought it was an accident
He tries to say it was all Antinous' fault
Who is Amphinomous and how does he die?
He is the nicest suitor who ignores Odysseus advice to leave and Telemachus kills him with a spear through his back.
Which ghostly king do the suitors talk to in the Underworld
Agamemnon
Which gods break up the fight with the suitors' families and Odysseus?
Zeus and Athena
What does Penelope ask Odysseus to do to prove his identity?
She asks him to move their bed out from the room to see if he knows it was made form a live tree.
Why can't Odysseus do what Penelope asks him to?
How does Melanthius die?
cut of ears, nose, hands, feet, private parts, then gets his throat cut