The Odyssey Beginning
Odysseus was gone from Ithaca for this long.
What is 20 years?
This god delays Odysseus' return home.
Who is Poseidon?
Poseidon hates Odysseus for this reason.
What is blinding his son, the cyclops?
The journey home (The Odyssey) begins from this place.
What is Troy?
This is the son of Odysseus.
Who is Telemachus?
When we first meet Odysseus, he is here.
What is on the island of Ogygia with Calypso?
Odysseus tell the cyclops this is his name to trick him.
What is Nobody?
This god is looking out for Odysseus and his son throughout their travels.
Who is Athena?
After they leave Cicones they land at a place where everybody becomes addicted to a flower. These people inhabit this island.
Who are the Lotus Eaters?
This is Odysseus' wife.
Who is Penelope?
Odysseus first left Ithaca for this reason.
What is to fight in the Trojan War, which was fought over the kidnapping of Helen?
King Aeolus gifts this to Odysseus.
What is a bag of wind?
Odysseus stays on Calypso's Island for this long.
What is 7 years?
Odysseus and his men end up on a huge island where they run into this one-eyed man.
Who is Polyphemus?
This is the "ring leader" of the suitors.
Who is Antinous?
This is Odysseus's father.
Who is Laertes?
Tiresias warns Odysseus not to do this.
What is eating Helios' cattle?
Odysseus doesn't just kill Polyphemus while he sleeps due to this hindrance.
What is the stone that seals the cave?
Odysseus lands here after his men open the bag of wind (after Cyclops' island). This sorceress on the island turns men into pigs.
Who is Circe?
This is the name of the creature who creates enormous and dangerous whirlpools.
What is Charybdis?
At the beginning of The Odyssey, Homer says, "Sing in me, Muse." The muses are this.
What are gods credited with inspiring artists, poets, musicians, etc?
Penelope tests Odysseus after he reveals his identity to her by doing this.
What is saying she moved the bed that was made out of a tree trunk?
Odysseus tries to convince Polyphemus to be kind to him and his men using this reasoning.
What is reminding him of xenia / telling him the gods expect people to treat guests well?
Odysseus immediately returns to this place after leaving the land of the dead.
What is Circe's Island / Aeaea?
This is the prophet of the underworld.
Who is Tiresias?