Cyclops and Entrapment
This is the father of the Cyclops which Odysseus blinded.
Who is Poseidon?
This is the place Odysseus used the hollowed out wooden horse to hid his men to win a battle with the Trojans.
Where is Troy?
The meaning of "Dawn with finger tips of Rose"?
What is Sunrise?
This is who Polyphemus calls out to asking to punish Odysseus towards the end of the book.
Who is Poseidon?
This is what Odysseus wants so badly but is almost jeopardized at the island of the Lotus-eaters.
What is to go home?
This is the name of the Cyclops Odysseus blinded.
Who is Polyphemus?
The people on the second island Odysseus visited ate _______ which made his men forget about returning home.
What is the lotus flower?
This is the king who honors Odysseus with a banquet and Odysseus promises to be his ally.
Who is King Alcinous?
Odysseus uses these two animals in his plan for Troy and the Cyclops?
What is the horse and ram?
This is what makes the Lotus-eaters forgetful.
What is the lotus flower?
This is the name Odysseus uses to fool the Cyclops.
What is Nobody?
These are the people that Odysseus battled on the first island after leaving Troy.
Who are the Cicones?
The ruthless brute
Who is Polyphemus?
Double Jeopardy Yay!!!!!!!!!!!
What Odysseus does to his men who ate the Lotus Flower in order to get them back home.
This is how many men the Cyclops eats on the first encounter.
What is 2?
This is the amount of sheep that each of Odysseus' men used to exit the cave.
What is 3 sheep?
This is what awaits Odysseus at the third island.
What is the Cyclops?
"Son of Laertes"
Who is Odysseus?
Double Jeopardy Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is why Polyphemus' friends do not come to help him.
This is how Odysseus blinds the Cyclops.
What is poking his eye with a sharp stick made from an olive tree?
This is what the Cyclops uses to try and entrap Odysseus on his island.
What is a boulder/slab of stone?
Double Jeopardy Yay!!!!!!!!!!
This is the goddess who tries to hold Odysseus back on her island.
This person saved Odysseus' crew from the harmful effects of the lotus.
Who is the great Odysseus, himself?
This is the tactic that Odysseus uses to ultimately defeat the Cyclops.
What is blinding?
These are the three things which Odysseus considers lucky to have to defeat the Cyclops. (hint: before he comes up with an escape plan).
What is a spear made from the olive tree, four of his strongest men to stab the cyclops in the eye, and his potent wine to get him drunk.