Gods & Goddesses
Mere Mortals
Obstacles & Monsters
Plot
Key Facts
100
This is the goddess that aids Odysseus when he returns to Ithaca.
Who is Athena?
100
She waited for Odysseys to return home for twenty years.
Who is Penelope, Odysseus' wife?
100
This plant causes you to lose your desire to go home.
What is the Lotus Flower?
100
Odysseus is disguised as this when he returns home.
What is a beggar?
100
This is how long Odysseus has been away from his homeland.
What is 20 years?
200
The name of the cyclops' Father.
Who is Poseidon?
200
This is the name of Odysseus' son.
Who is Telemachus?
200
The name of the one eyed monster who attempts to eat Odysseus and his men.
Who is Polyphemus?
200
The two lands the story takes place in.
What are Troy and Ithaca?
200
This is the author of The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
300
Messenger god sent by Athena to assist Odysseus.
Who is Hermes?
300
The number of ships Odysseus sails home with.
What is 12 ships?
300
This six headed, three rows of fangs, 12 foot monster grabs men as they pass by.
What is Scylla?
300
This is Penelope's challenge set up for the suitors (Odysseus is there disguised as beggar).
What is shooting an arrow through 12 axe heads?
300
The sea Odysseus and his men crossed to get to Troy and back home.
What is the Aegean sea?
400
She turns Odysseus' men into pigs.
Who is Circe?
400
This is the first suitor that Odysseus kills.
Who is Antinous?
400
This is a giant whirlpool.
What is Charybdis?
400
This is the name of Odysseus' dog.
What is Argus?
400
This is how Odysseus and his men snuck out of the cyclops' cave.
What is underneath his sheep?
500
She keeps Odysseus as a captive for 7 years.
Who is Calypso?
500
The mother of Odysseus who takes her own life in grief.
Who is Anticlea?
500
These singing bird ladies will kill you if you are brought in by their song that you can't resist.
What are the Sirens?
500
Odysseus and his crew travel to ______ in order to find ______.
What is The Underworld and who is Tiresias the soothsayer?
500
This is the name of the wind god.
Who is Aeolus?