Characters
The Legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the son of Laertes
Who is Odysseus?
Odysseus’s homeland island
What is Ithaca?
The number of years Odysseus has been gone
What is twenty?
The Giant son of Poseidon that is a cyclops.
Who is Polythemus?
“Conceal under a false appearance; disguise.”
What is dissemble?
King of gods and men, who mediates the disputes of the gods on Mount Olympus.
Who is Zeus?
This island Circe lives in
What is Aeaea?
The number of years Penelope deceives the suitors by weaving and unweaving
What is three?
A nymph who lives on Aeaea and changes Odysseus' crew into swine.
Who is Circe?
“Wine or other liquids poured upon the ground as a sacrifice or offering.”
What is libations?
The most arrogant of Penelope’s suitors who leads the campaign to have Telemachus killed.
Who is Antinous?
Where the nymph, Calypso, lives
What is Ogygia Isle?
The number of men that were eaten by Scylla
What is six?
Women who live on an island and lure men to their doom by singing about the men's pasts.
Who are the Sirens?
“Armor for the upper body.”
What is cuirass?
King of the Phaeacians, who offers Odysseus hospitality in his island kingdom of Scheria.
Who is Alcinous?
The island where Aeolus, king of the winds lives.
What is Aeolia?
The number of years Odysseus stays on Circe’s island.
What is one?
A giant whirlpool monster that swallows Odysseus' ship when he is returning from Thrinacia.
What is Charybdis?
“Area sheltered from the wind.”
What is lee?
A Theban prophet who inhabits the underworld.
Who is Tiresias?
The island that Odysseus raided in Sailing From Troy.
What is Ismaros?
The number of sockets the suitors have to shoot through in The Challenge
What is twelve?
People who eat a plant that makes Odysseus’s crew forget about home and want to stay there to eat more.
Who are lotus eaters?
“Units of money in Ancient Greece.”
What is talents?