Background
The Adventures of Ulysses is based on The Odyssey, which was supposedly written by this blind poet.
Who is Homer?
Identify the literary term present: “Ulysses' men leaped upon the carcasses like wild beasts, ripped them apart with their hands, stuck the flesh on spits, and plunged them into the open fire.”
What is a simile?
How are Ulysses and his men able to get past the Cyclops and out of the cave?
They make him drunk enough to fall asleep, blind him, and then sneak out under the bellies of the goats.
Strange human-bird hybrids who seduce sailors with elegant singing.
What are Sirens?
Faithful wife of Ulysses, she was almost forced to marry another man.
Who is Penelope?
The Odyssey is actually to a sequel of The Iliad, which is the story of this war.
What is The Trojan War?
Look at that giant with a single eye in the middle of his forehead. And that terrible spider woman with all those legs.... Ah, the things he dreams, this angry sleeper....... what shipwrecks.... How many deaths?
What is foreshadowing?
Why was Ulysses unable to make it home with the bag of winds?
Ulysses had fallen asleep just before making landfall, and his men had taken the bag.
Provide the name: The father of Polyphemus.
Who is Poseidon?
Messenger of the gods, he tells Calypso to release Ulysses.
Who is Hermes?
The Odyssey is an epic poem, which is so long that it fills this many "books" (or chapters)
What is 24?
Over the years that Ulysses was gone, Penelope wove (and unwove) his funeral shroud. This is considered a ___ of her love for him.
Why had the gods sent wandering rocks toward Ulysses’ ship?
Because it was his fate to go past The Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and land on the Island of the Sun Cattle.
The woman who turns people into animals, can live forever, and can see the future, and holds Ulysses captive.
Who is Calypso?
Goddess who repeatedly aids Ulysses and his son.
Eris, the goddess of ___, is responsible for the golden apple that started the Trojan War.
What is discord?
Identify the literary device in the following passage:
"Some say that [Nausicaa] finally came to the court of Ithaca to sing her song, and there she stayed. Others say that she fell in with a blind poet who took all her songs and wove them into one huge tapestry of song. But it all happened too long ago to know the truth of it."
What is an allusion?
Why did Ulysses’ men think that Ulysses intentionally killed Elpenor?
So he could follow his spirit to Tartarus.
A gigantic whirlpool swallows the seas and spits everything back out. (You must pronounce it correctly!)
Who is Charybdis?
Discovers Ulysses’ identity and sings songs about the Trojan War.
Who is Nausicaa?
This is the Greek word for "hospitality".
Ulysses’ men open the bag of winds as they approach Ithaca. We readers know what is inside the bag before those men do. This is an example of which literary term?
What is (dramatic) irony?
What did Ulysses throw in place of a discus to prove how strong he was to the other men?
The leader of the suitors that have taken charge of Ulysses' castle while he was away.
Who is Eurymachus?
The king of Phaeacia, he provides a ship for Ulysses.
Who is Alcinous?