Characters
A beautiful woman who starts a war through her unfaithfulness.
Who is Helen?
A goddess who supports Odysseus; she tends to show up disguised as another character.
Who is Athena?
How does Odysseus keep his men from hearing the Sirens?
By plugging their ears with wax.
What terrible thing did Circe do to Odysseus's men?
She turned them in to pigs.
Latin for "in the middle"
In medias res
An immortal who holds Odysseus captive until Hermes comes and says that she must let him go.
Who is Calypso?
Odysseus stays with her a year after she turned his men into pigs.
Who is Circe?
Why is Poseidon is angry at Odysseus?
He put out the cyclop's eye.
Who finally takes Odysseus home?
The Phaicians.
A long narrative poem that tells a story.
What is an epic?
An underwater monster that swallows up the water and spits it out several times a day.
Who is Charybdis?
A monster that lives opposite of Charybdis and eats six of Odysseus’s men
Who is Scylla?
What happened to the men who ate the lotus?
They forgot about home.
How did the nurse recognize Odysseus?
She recognized his scar.
A representation of a group. The original pattern from which all other things of the same kind are made.
What is an archetype?
Blind prophet who advises Odysseus on how to get home; he is dead.
Who is Teiresias?
A faithful nurse who recognizes Odysseus by his scar.
Who is Eurycleia?
How does Odysseus keep himself from hearing the Sirens?
He makes the men tie him to the mast.
Who threw a stool at Odysseus dressed as a beggar?
Antinoos.
The final way in which Odysseus convinced Penelope that he was not an impostor.
What is only he knew the bed was built from a tree and cannot be moved.
Who gave Odysseus a veil to keep him from drowning.
Who is Ino?
One of the leaders of the suitors; he is killed when Odysseus shoots him in the neck with an arrow.
Who is Antinoos?
A type of figurative language that makes a comparison that is continued throughout the story or poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
Who bottled up the blustering winds for Odysseus?
Aeolus.
An adjective or adjectival phrase used to define an characteristic quality or attribute of some person or thing. Often it is an adjectival phrase attached to a name.
What is an epithet?