Mythological Creatures
People
Places
Homecoming
Surprise
100
These will sing sailors to their death.
What are Sirens?
100
Person credited for writing "The Odyssey"
Who is Homer?
100
Odysseus stays on the island of this Goddess for seven years.
Who is Calypso?
100
The total number of years Odysseus was away from home.
What is 20?
100
This Goddess reunited Odysseus and Telemachus.
Who is Athena?
200
Six-headed, meat-eating creature
What is Scylla?
200
Member of Odysseus's crew. Odysseus spoke to him in the underworld.
Who is Elpenor?
200
The crew ate this God's cattle at Thrinacia
Who is Helios?
200
Odysseus's son
Who is Telemachus?
200
Penelope uses this trick to hold off the suitors.
What is weaving (unwinding the weaving at the end of each day)?
300
The name of the Cyclops Odysseus fought.
What is Polyphemus?
300
This God and Goddess helped Odysseus the most during his voyage.
Who are Athena and Zeus?
300
Odysseus's men lose their desire to go home at this location.
What is the Land of the Lotus Eaters?
300
Before sending Odysseus home, Circe sends him here first.
What is "the underworld"?
300
Eurymachus asks this to try to save himself and the other suitors from death.
What is, "What crime have we committed here?"
400
Creature disguised as a vicious whirlpool.
What is Charybdis?
400
Odysseus tells this person the story of his adventures.
Who is King Alcinous?
400
This king gives the crew a fair west wind to drive them home to Ithica.
Who is Aeolus?
400
One way Odysseus proves he is actually "Odysseus, King of Ithica".
What is shooting the arrow through the ax handles.
400
This is the reason the Cyclopes do not fear the Gods and Goddesses.
What is they have no respect for Gods/Goddesses and their father is Poseidon?
500
Blind prophet from the underworld.
Who is Tiresias?
500
Odysseus's mother
Who is Anticlea?
500
The first place Odysseus and his men land after leaving Troy after the Trojan War.
What is the Land of the Cicones (allies of Troy).
500
The swineherd and cowherd (servants) who help Odysseus battle the suitors.
Who are Eumaeus and Philoetius?
500
Allies to Troy, killed 72 of Odysseus's men after the Trojan War before driving them out to sea.
Who are the Cicones?
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