The Odyssey Beginning
This location is Odysseus' home.
Ithaca
What does Odysseus tell the cyclops his name is?
Nobody
Circe turned men into?
What does the blind prophet Tiresias say Odysseus and his men should NOT do?
Kill the cattle of the sun god, Helios.
"How do you like the beating we gave you, you damned cannibal? Eater of guests under your roof! Zeus and the gods have paid you!"
Odysseus
Odysseus was a hero in the war in this location.
In vengeance for his son, which god delays Odysseus's return home?
Poseidon
Why are the Sirens so dangerous?
Their songs lure sailors and their ships to their deaths.
Which friend does Odysseus encounter in the Underworld.
Elpenor
Circe
What is the name of Odysseus' wife?
Penelope
How do Odysseus and his men escape from the cave of the Cyclops?
They cling to the bellies of the sheep.
What plant did Hermes give Odysseus to protect him from Circe's harm.
moly
How did Elpenor die?
He fell from the roof at Circe's Island.
"I slept on Circe's roof, then could not see the long steep backward ladder, coming down, and fell that height. My neck bone, buckled under, snapped, and my spirit found this well of dark."
Elpenor
This god/goddess asked Zeus to help Odysseus return home from Calypso's island.
Athena
What is the name of the Cyclops Odysseus and his men encounter?
Polyphemus
What did Aeolus, the god of the winds give to Odysseus?
Which family member does Odysseus encounter in Underworld?
His mother, Anticlea
"Friends, have we never been in danger before this? More fearsome, is it now, than when the Cyclops penned us in his cave? What power he had? Did I not keep my nerve, and use my wits to find a way out for us?"
Odysseus
What is the name of Odysseus' son?
Telemachus
Why doesn't Odysseus just kill Polyphemus while he sleeps?
They could not move the stone that seals the cave.
Who are Scylla and Charybdis?
A six-headed sea monster and a whirlpool.
How did Odysseus' mother, Anticlea, die?
She died of a broken heart.
"Nohbdy, Nohbdy's tricked me, Nohbdy's ruined me!"
the Cyclops