Characters
Odysseus's wife and Queen of Ithaca.
Who is Penelope?
This is the effect of the lotus plant on anyone who eats it.
What is makes them forget about home/family.
This person wrote the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
This is the name of the cyclops whose cave Odysseus and his men find themselves stuck in.
Who is Polyphemus?
God of War.
Who is Ares?
Odysseus' son. Only a baby when his father left for the Trojan War.
Who is Telemachus?
The main antagonist that keeps Odysseus from returning home because he blinded his son.
Who is Poseidon?
Homer's poem is in this many parts.
What is two?
The sorceress who turns men into pigs.
Who is Circe?
Who is Athena?
A member of Odysseus's crew, one of his right-hand men, who often disobeys Odysseus.
Who is Eurylochus?
Odysseus is credited with this plan that effectively ended the Trojan War.
What is the Trojan Horse?
The names of the two parts of the poem.
What is the Iliad and the Odyssey?
This is how long Odysseus stayed with the nymph Calypso.
What is seven years?
The highest ranked god in Greek mythology and bearer of the lightning bolt.
Who is Zeus?
The suitor who riles the other suitors to conceive violent schemes against Odysseus and Telemachus, and pursues Penelope the most.
Who is Antinous?
Odysseus tells the Cyclops this name while he is trapped in the cave.
What is "Nobody"?
The Odyssey is this kind of poem.
What is an epic poem?
Odysseus uses this strategy to survive his encounter with the Sirens.
What is tying himself to the mast?
God of the Underworld
Who is Hades?
Menelaus's wife, famous for her beauty and said to be the cause for the Trojan War.
Who is Helen?
This was the test Penelope gave to Odysseus to prove it was him.
What is asking him to move their wedding bed?
Homer's poems about the Trojan War were among the few ancient Epic Cycle works that survived the burning of this library.
What is the Library of Alexandria?
According to Circe, Odysseus must speak to this blind prophet in the Underworld.
Who is Tiresias?
Messenger of the gods
Who is Hermes?