STUPIDITY/FALLIBILITY
An overbearing pride that angers the gods.
What is hubris?
Flashing-eyed is an example of this literary device.
What is a Homeric epithet?
Hanging to a ram’s belly
How does O get out of the cave?
Two cannibals O encounters
Who are the king of the Laestrygonians and the Cyclops?
The God of travelers, thieves, and commerce
Who is Hermes?
Because they know nothing about weaving.
Why are the suitors are so blind to Penelope’s trick?
The suitors telling O, after he defeats Ithaca’s (other) beggar: “you’ll never escape your headlong death; you’ve killed the best in Ithaca.”
What is an example of dramatic irony?
A burial shroud
What does P pretend to weave?
He gives O a bag of wind
Who is Aeolus?
This God escorts the dead to the Underworld
Who is Hermes?
With a ring of mountains around the harbor.
How do the Phaeacians get punished (by Poseidon and Zeus) for their hubris?
As a mountain lion driven to attack the best-defended farms.
What simile for O as he approaches the Phaeacian princess?
He would not give up his own coat
These people’s city was sacked by O and his men on their way back from Troy
Who are the Cicones?
Wine mixed with honey that is poured to please the gods
What is a libation?
He would rather die instantly than suffer for a long time.
Who is Eurylochus?
Birds crying over an empty nest.
What is the simile that marks T and O’s reunion?
He is tricked by wine and a name
Who is Polyphemus?
This person cries over her geese
Who is Penelope?
They lose themselves in love
Who are O and Calypso?
"Quick, open! There must be gold and silver in here!"
What do O's men think as they open the bag of winds?
Part of his name means “on both sides or all around.”
Who is Amphinomous?
She takes on the name Mentor.
Who is Athena?
This person was seduced by another man
Who is Clytemnestra?
Calypso is mad at his double standard
Who is Zeus?