Odyssey
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Characters 1
The wife who waits for Odysseus
Who is Penelope?
The loyal but inexperienced son of Odysseus
Who is Telemachus?
DOUBLE IT!
The loyal swineherd
The story is set some years after the fall of this city
What is Troy?
The strategy by which Odysseus overcame the Cyclops
What is gouging out his eye?
Founder and queen of Carthage, and ill-fated lover of Aeneas
Who is Dido?
King of the gods, associated with fate in The Aeneid
Who is Jupiter?
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His other name
Aeneas's mission
What is to establish a new city/civilization for the Trojans (Rome)?
Oedipus's wife...and mother
Who is Jocasta?
The reason Oedipus ran away from Corinth
What is to escape the prophecy?
The nymph who has imprisoned him on her island
Who is Calypso?
The god who has an axed to grind against him
Who is Poseidon?
The Penelope weaves then unravels every night
What is a burial shroud?
The island he calls home
What is Ithica?
ruler of the Rutulians, and Aneas's major human antagonist
Who is Turnus?
Goddess of love, mother of Aeneas, rival of Juno
the trick by which the city of Troy fell
What is a wooden horse with soldiers?
His name literally means "swollen foot"
Who is Oedipus?
The creature Oedipus overcame to deliver Thebes
What is the Sphinx?
The goddess who supports his cause
Who is Athena?
The legendary sea monster he fights
Who is Scylla?
QUADRUPLE IT!
The number of heads, legs, and rows of teeth
The disguise in which Odysseus returns
What is a beggar?
The place where he consults with the prophet Tiresias
What is Hades?
Queen of the gods, and Aeneas's main divine antagonist
Who is Juno?
Daughter of Latinus, over whom the Trojan-Latin war was fought
Who is Lavania?
the way Dido committed suicide (2 answers, 300 each)
What is climbing on a pyre and stabbing herself with Aeneas's sword?
Oedipus's brother-in-law
Who is Creon?
The fatal spot where Oedipus murdered his father
The two kings who fought with him in the war (200 each)
Who are Nestor and Menelaus?
The suitor who leads the plot to murder Telemachus
Who is Antinous?
The strategy by which he and his men endured the deadly Sirens (2 answers, 200 each)
What is having his men plug their ears and bind him to the mast?
The kind of contest Penelope devises to determine the man she will marry
What is archery?
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The specific feat
King of the Latins, who welcomes Aeneas
Who is Latinus?
Son of Evander, entrusted to Aeneas, slain by Turnus
Who is Pallas?
The ill-fated trophy Turnus took from Pallas
What is a belt?
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Why it was an 'ill-fated' trophy
The profession of the key witness
What is a shepherd?
The punishment that Oedipus inflicts on himself
What is exile from Thebes?
The old nurse who keeps his secret
Who is Eurycleia?
The old father with whom Odysseus is reunited
Who is Laertes?
The effect of the fruit in the land of the Lotus Eaters
What is forgetting home and purpose?
The main post of their bed
What is the trunk of a tree, 'rooted' to the ground?
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The kind of tree
King of Pallanteum and enemy of the Latins, who befriends and aids Aeneas
Who is Evander?
'Amazon' warrior woman
Who is Camilla?
The fighting in Italy begins when Acanius, Aeneas's son, shoots this beloved pet of the Latins
Who is Antigone?
The authors of The Odyssey, The Aeneid, and Oedipus Rex (500 each)
Who are Homer, Virgil, and Sophocles?