Polyphemus and The Land of the Dead.
Who is the blind prophet that Odysseus sought out for safe passage to get home who prophesied for Odysseus and his crew to NOT eat Helios's cattle?
Who is Tiresias?
How did Odysseus get to Thrinacia, the island of the sun god?
By navigating past Scylla, and Charybdis.
What happens when Odysseus arrives back home on Ithaca?
Athena turns his skin withered and old, takes his hair, dresses Odysseus in filthy rags, and makes him an unrecognizable beggar.
How did the suitors treat Odysseus?
Verbal taunts cruel jokes and abuse.
Who was faithful to Odysseus and weaved and unweaved the shroud?
Who is Penelope?
What did Odysseus and his men do to Polyphemus to escape?
The crew and Odysseus used an olive wood pike, burnt the end, and stabbed Polyphemus's eye to escape so he would open the cave.
True or False:
Odysseus wanted to avoid and sail past the island of Thrinacia?
True.
Who recognizes Odysseus first?
Odysseus's old loyal hunting dog Argus.
Who threw a footstool at Odysseus as a beggar, refused him food, and threatened violence?
Who is Antinous?
Why did Penelope weave and unweave the shroud for Laertes?
To delay the marriage with any suitor.
How did Odysseus and his crew get into the Underworld? Why did he go there?
Odysseus went to the Underworld with the help of the sorceress Circe, he went to receive instructions from Tiresias who had the knowledge of a safe path home.
Who persuaded Odysseus's crew to kill the cattle of Helios?
Who is Eurylochus?
Where does Odysseus go to?
Odysseus goes to Eumaeus's cabin where he meets his son Telemachus.
Who aided Odysseus and Telemachus when Odysseus took his revenge?
Athena and Zeus.
How did Penelope's plot of the shroud get revealed?
By her own maids.
Why did Odysseus choose to not kill Polyphemus? what did Odysseus do when he left?
Odysseus did not blind Polyphemus cause they needed him to open the cave. Nohbdy who was Odysseus yelled out his real name and that he was the king of Ithaca prompting Polyphemus to yell out a curse and pray to Poseidon to get vengeance against him.
What happened to Odysseus and his crew when they killed and ate the sun gods cattle?
Zeus struck down Odysseus's crew and his ship with his lightning bolt.
True Or False:
Telemachus thought his father Odysseus was a trickster god when he took off the beggar disguise?
True
What happens following Antinous's death from Odysseus arrows?
The following suitors and Eurymachus tried to offer Odysseus meats, wine, bronze, gold, and tithe of twenty oxen for them to spare their lives.
How did Penelope test Odysseus?
By commanding Eurycleia to move the bridal bed.
What was Tiresias's prophecy?
The wrath of Poseidon, The cattle of Helios, The Oar Prophecy, The suitors, and that Odysseus will die a peaceful death in extreme old age.
What happened when Odysseus and his men sailed past Scylla?
What was Telemachus ordered to leave out?
What was the significance and impact of Antinous and the wine goblet?
It represented their greed, consumption, and there spoiling of Odysseus spoils.
What was Penelope's test for the suitors?
Whoever can string the old kings Odysseus bow and shoot it through the twelve axes would be able to marry her.