Human Characters
Odysseus's faithful wife
Penelope
Goddess of wisdom; she favors Odysseus and helps him throughout his journey
Athena
The 10-year war that Odysseus and his men are returning home from
Trojan War
What does Penelope do to delay choosing a suitor?
Weaves a shroud by day and unravels it by night
Does Odysseus sail closer to Scylla or Charybdis?
Odysseus chooses to sail closer to Scylla, the six headed monster, rather than sailing near the whirlpool Charybdis. He decides that sacrificing six men to Scylla is better than chancing his entire ship to Charybdis.
Odysseus's son
Telemachus
Sea nymph; offers immortality to Odysseus
Calypso
Land with a mysterious fruit that makes men lose the desire to go home
What disguise does Athena help Odysseus use when he returns to Ithaca?
Beggar/ Old man
How does Odysseus and his crew finally pass the Sirens? Odysseus ___ and his crew ____.
Odysseus listens while tied to the mast, and the crew has their ears plugged
A person Odysseus sees in the Underworld; Greek seer/prophet consulted by Odysseus
Teiresias
One-eyed cyclops that traps Odysseus in his cave
Polyphemus
the island of the sun god Helios, sometimes also identified as Hyperion. Odysseus and his crew are warned to avoid this island and, if they do visit, to avoid harming the cattle of the sun god.
Thrinacia
What challenge does Penelope set for the suitors to win her hand?
To string Odysseus's bow and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads
Who warns Odysseus about the dangers of the Sirens?
Circe
the first person Odysseus reveals himself to upon his return to Ithaca; Odysseus's faithful swineheard
Eumaeus
Witch that turns Odysseus's men into pigs
Circe
the ruler of the winds, visited by Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. In the Odyssey, the ruler of wind's island was purely mythical, a floating island surrounded by "a wall of unbreakable bronze" where the "cliffs run up shear".
Aeolus (Land of Aeolia)
Does Odysseus finally defeat the suitors? How so or why not?
yes; he fights the suitors with the help of his son Telemachus and two other men named Philoetius and Eumaeus.
What name does Odysseus give to Polyphemus as part of his escape plan?
Antinous
Father of Polyphemus
Poseidon
Odysseus's homeland that he was away from for 20 years (10 years of war, 10 years of the odyssey)
Ithaca
What sign does Zeus send down to indicate his favor during the battle against the suitors?
An eagle
How many ships do the Lestragonians sink? (he originally had 12 ships)
They sunk 11 out of 12 ships