Characters #1
What is the name of the six-headed monster who eats Odysseus's men in Book 12?
Scylla
What is the name of the prophet Odysseus meets in the Underworld in Book 11?
Tiresias
What does Odysseus's CREW do to avoid being tempted by the siren's song?
They fill their ears with beeswax.
What is Odysseus disguised as in Books 17 + 19?
A beggar
Which Greek value is best represented in this quote:
"Calypso sat down face-to-face with the king
and the women served her nectar and ambrosia.
They reached out for the good things that lay at hand
and [they] had their fill of food and drink."
Xenia
What is the name of the "lead" suitor who gets killed first in Book 22?
Antinous
What is the name of the sun god whose cattle the crew eats in Book 12?
Helios
What warning does Tiresias give Odysseus in Book 11?
Not to eat the cattle of the Sun God, otherwise his crew will die!
What does ODYSSEUS do to avoid being killed by the siren's song?
He has his crew tie him up to the mast of the ship.
Which Greek value is best represented in this quote:
"Cyclops—
if any man on the face of the earth should ask you
who blinded you, shamed you so—say Odysseus,
raider of cities, he gouged out your eye,
Laertes’ son who makes his home in Ithaca!"
Hubris
What is the name of the king who was killed by his wife and whose ghost warns Odysseus not to trust women in Book 11?
Agamemnon
What is the name of the maid who recognizes Odysseus when she washes his feet in Book 19?
Eurycleia
In Book 12, who gives Odysseus the advice he needs to survive monsters like the Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis?
Circe
How does Antinous attack Odysseus when he is disguised as a beggar in Book 17?
He mocks him and throws a stool at him.
Which vocab term is best represented in this quote:
"The time for trusting women’s gone forever!"
Gender roles
What is the name of the swineherd (pig farmer) who helps Odysseus kill the suitors in Book 22?
Eumaeus
What is the name of the suitor who, in Book 22, blames Antinous and promises to pay Odysseus back for all the food he and the suitors stole?
Eurymachus
She pretends to ask the maid to move her bed, which Odysseus built out of an olive tree... so it CAN'T be moved, unless someone chopped it down.
Who DOESN'T recognize Odysseus in Book 19, despite having a very long conversation with him?
Penelope
Which Greek value is best represented in this quote:
“No, no, stranger,” wise Penelope demurred,
“whatever form and feature I had, what praise I’d won,
the deathless gods destroyed that day the Achaeans
sailed away to Troy, my husband in their ships,
Odysseus—if he could return to tend my life
the renown I had would only grow in glory."
Kleos
What is Odysseus' mom's name? (Book 11)
Anticlea
What is the name of Odysseus's crew member who persuades the crew to eat the cattle of the Sun God in Book 12?
Eurylochus
What is the difference between the way Odysseus TELLS Telemachus to kill the "disloyal" maids in Book 22, and the way Telemachus ACTUALLY kills them?
Odysseus tells him to kill them with swords; Telemachus hangs them because he doesn't want to give them a "clean" death.
Who recognizes Odysseus in Books 17 and 19, even though he is disguised? (To get this answer correct, you must name BOTH characters.)
Argos the dog (Book 17) and Eurycleia the maid (Book 19).
(To be verified by Mrs. Mungai)