Monsters
One eyed monster from Book 9.
Who was Polyphemus? (Cyclops)
The god of the sea who was angry with Odysseus for blinding Polyphemus.
Who is Poseidon?
This place is know as world of the dead.
What is the Underworld?
Odysseus' home kingdom.
What is Ithaca?
The author credited with writing The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
Singing creatures who tried to lure sailors to their deaths.
What are the Sirens?
This king of the gods sent a thunderbolt to sink Odysseus' ship.
Who is Zeus?
This prophet in the Underworld gave Odysseus a prophecy of his journey.
Who is Tiresias?
Odysseus’s faithful wife who waited for him for 20 years.
Who is Penelope?
The war Odysseus fought in before his journey home.
What was the Trojan War?
This six-headed monster ate several of Odysseus’s men.
Who is Scylla?
This goddess helped Odysseus throughout his journey home.
Who is Athena?
These animals must be sacrificed in order for ghosts to appear.
What is a ewe and a ram
Odysseus disguised himself as this when he returned home.
What is a beggar?
The epic poem that tells Odysseus’s journey home.
What is The Odyssey?
This witch goddess turned Odysseus’s crew into pigs.
Who is Circe?
This sun god owned the sacred cattle Odysseus’s crew ate.
Who is Helios?
This ghost asked to be buried properly when the crew returned to Aeaea.
Who is Elpenor?
This son of Odysseus helped Odysseus fight off the suitors?
Who is Telemachus?
This enchantress kept Odysseus on her island for years.
Who is Calypso?
This sea monster created a deadly whirlpool near Scylla.
What is Charybdis?
This messenger god gave Odysseus a magical plant called moly to protect him from Circe's power.
Who is Hermes?
This spirit of Odysseus’s mother appeared to him in the Underworld.
Who is Anticleia?
Odysseus proved his identity by stringing this weapon.
What is Odysseus' bow?
Odysseus’s famous character trait that helped him survive many dangers.
What is cleverness (or cunning intelligence)?