Characters
What is the name of Odysseus' wife?
Penelope
What is the Greek value of hospitality or guest-friendship?
In which book does Odysseus kill the suitors?
Book 22
What did Athena disguise Odysseus as?
A beggar
Where did Odysseus leave from to start his journey home?
Troy
What is the name of the cyclops Odysseus killed?
Polyphemus
Name an animal that Odysseus gets compared to
Lion, dog, hawk etc.
The Great Bow
What was the omen that Zeus sent Odysseus in book 20?
A thunder clap (or the miller woman's speech, but that speech was in response to the thunderclap)
Where is Odysseus' home?
Which god gave the suitors gory hallucinations at the end of book 20?
Athena
Why does Odysseus want revenge on the suitors?
Going after his wife while he's still alive, sleeping with his maids, eating all of his food, bullying his son etc.
Circe turned Odysseus' men into what animal?
Pigs.
Which god caused Odysseus' journey home to be so long?
Poseidon
The island of Scherie is home to which character?
Nausicaa
What is the name of the maid that raised Odysseus and recognised his scar?
Eurycleia
What is the Greek word for glory?
Kleos
Why did Penelope not know about the killing of the suitors?
All the women were locked upstairs, and the gods put Penelope into a deep sleep.
What was Penelope's prayer to Artemis?
To kill her so that she could die faithful to Odysseus
Where are the suitors from?
Achaea (or Ithaca)
What are the names of Odysseus' cowherd and swineherd
Eumaeus and Philoetius
Name a conflicting relationship dynamic that demonstrates the workings of the Greek value "Xenia"
Subjectively judged by miss, if the suitors are named it has to be a specific suitor!
What did Calypso do?
Keep Odysseus detained on her island for seven years.
What is the word that describes someones loyalty to the gods?
Piety
What is Calypso's island?
Ogygia