Uh Oh, Odysseus!
I was tricked and blinded by Odysseus. I cursed him by calling my dad.
What is Polyphemus/the Cyclops.
Homer also wrote this work.
What is The Illiad?
Define a Homeric simile.
What is an extended comparison of something godlike to something everyday, using like or as?
Goddess of Wisdom. Gives Odysseus a disguise.
Athena
Intelligent, cunning, and adventurous.
Who is Odysseus?
I was rejected and got my heart broken by Odysseus. He stayed on my island for 7 years.
Who is Calypso?
In Homer's previous work, why does Odysseus leave Ithaca?
What is to fight in the Trojan war?
Define dramatic irony.
What is when the audience knows something the characters don't?
A sorceress. Gives Odysseus information to protect him from the sirens.
What is Circe?
Patient, cautious, and loving.
Who is Penelope?
I hate Odysseus with all of my power. He did not give me credit for the Trojan War, and I will make him pay.
Who is Poseidon?
Homer's works are classified as this type of poetry.
What is epic poetry?
The Beggar shooting Odysseus' bow is dramatic irony because of this.
What is Odysseus, the beggar? We, as the audience, know this, but the characters do not.
The god who delivers messages. Allows Odysseus to leave Calypso and stop Circe.
What is Hermes?
Weak, frail, and old.
Who is Argos/Odysseus' dog?
I was killed by Odysseus, who shot me in the throat.
Who is Antinous/Head of the suitors?
Homer's works were passed down through this method.
What is orally/verbally spoken?
Identify what is being compared in this Homeric simile.
"And the suitors mad with fear at her great sign stampeded like stung cattle by a river when the dread shimmering gadfly strikes in summer, in the flowering season, in the long-drawn days."
What is the suitors and cattle stampeding?
A blind prophet. Gives Odysseus the prophecy of his future.
Who is Tieresias?
Loyal, understanding, and truehearted.
Who is Telemachus?
The people who were raped and pillaged by Odysseus and his crew.
Who is the Cicones?
Homer created this beautiful woman- "the face that launched a thousand ships."
What is Helen of Troy?
Identify what is being compared in this Homeric simile:
"In a smithy one sees a white-hot axehead or an adze plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam- the way they make soft iron hale and hard- just so that eyeball hissed around the spike."
What is hot metal being put in water, to the cyclops being stabbed?
God of the sun. Gets Odysseus' men killed in revenge.
Who is Helios?
Hardworking, obedient, and kind.
Who is Eumaeus?