The Odyssey Beginning
Odyssey Travels
Odyssey Travels two
The Odyssey Order
Characters in The Odyssey
100

For how many years was Odysseus gone from Ithaca?

20 years

100

Which god delays Odysseus' return home?

Poseidon

100

Why does Poseidon hate Odysseus?

He blinded his son, the cyclops Polyphemus.

100
Where does the journey home (The Odyssey) begin from?
Troy
100

Who is the son of Odysseus?

Telemachus 

200

When we first see Odysseus, where is he?

On the island of Ogygia with Calypso.

200

Where is Odysseus from? 

Ithaca

200

How does Odysseus try to convince Polyphemus to be kind to him and his men?

He tells him the gods expect people to treat guests well.

200

After they leave Cicones they land on place where everybody becomes addicted to a flower. What is the name of that place?

The Lotus Eaters

200

Who is Odysseus' wife?

Penelope

300

Who are the "Cicones"

The first significant obstacle on Odysseu's journey. An army that inhibited an island that fought Odysseus's men from dawn to dust, killing several of his men.

300

What does Odysseus tell the cyclops his name is?

Nohbody

300

Why doesn't Odysseus just kill Polyphemus while he sleeps?

They could not move the stone that seals the cave.

300

Next Odysseus and his men end up on on a huge island where they run into a one eyed man. Where is this?

Cyclops' island

300

What is the name of the cyclops that captures Odysseus and his men?

Polyphemus

400

Who is Odysseus's father? 

"I am Laetes's son" (LINE 16)

400

What war did Odysseus just finish fighting in at the start of the Odyssey?

The Trojan War

400

How long does Odysseus stay on Calypso's Island? 

7 Years

400

Odysseus landed here after his men opened the bag of wind (after Cyclops' island). The sorceress of this island turns men into pigs. She told Odysseus to go to the land of the dead.

Circe's island

400

What is the name of the enormous and dangerous whirlpool?

Charybdis

500

At the beginning of The Odyssey, Homer says, "Sing in me, Muse." Why does he say this? 

The Muses are minor gods that are credited with inspiring music and art.

500

What was Penelope's test?

Moving the bed that was made out of a tree trunk. Odysseus carved a bed from the tree, and Penelope said it was moved for him outside of the bedroom. Odysseus took great offense thinking it was destroyed and that is how Penelope knew it was him.
500
Who was named "the ring leader" of the suitors?

Antinous

500

Name two parts/books from the play that we didn't read but instead had a brief summary of.

Meeting Aeolia with Aeolus

Visit with Circe

Visit with Calypso

War at Troy

500

Who is the prophet of the underworld?

Teresias

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