Events & Places
Odysseus' homeland.
What is Ithaca?
What Odysseus and his men ate that angered the sun god.
What is cattle?
The greek custom of offering hospitality to strangers.
The person who killed the suitors.
What is xenia?
The first person Odysseus talked to when he returned to Ithaca.
Who is Athena?
The object that Aeolus gave to Odysseus.
What is a bag of wind?
The person who says, "Who dared to move my bed?"
Who is Odysseus?
How Achilles died.
What is the Trojan Horse?
The town that Odysseus and his men destroyed.
What is Ismarus or Cicones?
The god that helped disguise Odysseus when he came back to Ithaca.
Who is Athena?
The three types of irony.
What are dramatic, situational, and verbal?
The two people that killed Agamemnon.
Who is Agamemnon's wife and lover?
The offense that Odysseus commits when he claims credit for blinding the cyclops.
What is hubris?
The place Odysseus ended up after his ship sank.
What is Calypso's island?
The god that gave Odysseus an herb to prevent him from becoming a pig.
Who is Hermes?
The three types of myths.
What are pure, heroic, and folktale?
The people who fought over the armor of Achilles.
Who are Odysseus and Ajax?
The literary device shown when the suitors make fun of the beggar and joke that "maybe he has a bow like it at home."
What is irony?
The length of time the crew waited before eating Apollo's cattle.
What is one month?
The weapon that Odysseus and his men used to stab the cyclops' eye.
The character that the text is referring to when it says, "Now misery has him in leash."
Who is Argus?
The most ignorant suitor.
The latin term that describes how the author begins the story in the midst of things.
What is in media res?