Gods and Goddesses
People
Places
Events
Miscellaneous
100
Zeus
Who is the ruler of the sky and supreme ruler?
100
Telemachus
Who is Odysseus's son?
100
Ithaca
What is Odysseus's home?
100
Moping around watching the suitors having a party, eating, drinking and dancing.
What is Telemachus doing when we first see him at the beginning of the story?
100
Honored, fed, given the most comfortable chair, clothing, whatever is necessary to make them comfortable.
How are guests treated in Greek society?
200
Hades
Who is the ruler of the underworld?
200
Penelope
Who is Odysseus's wife?
200
Mount Olympus
What is the home of the gods?
200
Send the suitors away, send his mother back to her father if necessary, get a ship and 20 men, go on quest for his father, and come home and kill the suitors if they haven't left.
What is Athena's advice to Telemachus when she visits him in the form of Mentes, Chief of the Taphians?
200
Encouraged to stick to the household and household tasks.Told "speech is a man's matter."
How are women treated in Greek society?
300
Poseidon
Who is the ruler of the sea?
300
Mentor
Odysseus's friend who was in charge of Odysseus's household while he was gone and who goes on the trip to find Odysseus with Telemachus.
300
Calypso's Island
Where is Odysseus at the beginning of the story?
300
Kill Odysseus if and when he comes home.
What do the suitors threaten to do at the assembly after Telemachus tells them to leave his house?
300
Aegisthus steals Agamemnon's wife, kills Agamemnon when he returns from the Trojan, and takes over his lands.
Why does Orestes (Agamemnon's son) kill Aegisthus and Clytemnestra?
400
Athena
Who is the daughter of Zeus, the battle goddess, the goddess of the city, and/or the goddess who helps Telemachus?
400
Menelaus and Helen
Husband and wife who started the Trojan war when Helen was kidnapped and Menelaus led a Greek army to Troy to get her back.
400
Troy
Where is Odysseus trying to return from when his adventures begin?
400
Helen drugs them.
How does Helen stop the men from crying about the events of the Trojan War?
400
Penelope is convinced by Euryclea, the nurse, and by a phantom of Athena that Telemachus will be safe.
What events happen to make Penelope worry less about Telemachus once she discovers that he has left?
500
Hera
Who is Zeus's wife and sister and the protector of marriage?
500
Antinous and Eurymachus
Who are the 2 named suitors?
500
The Ethiopians
Where is Poseidan at the beginning of the story?
500
Take a ship with 20 men to the straits between Ithaca and Samos and wait.
What is the suitors plan to kill Telemachus?
500
Noeman asks when Telemachus will return.
How do the suitors find out that Telemachus has left to find his father?
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