Characters
Characters
Characters
Main ideas/ concepts
Main ideas/ concepts
100
One-eyed Cyclops
Polyphemus
100
Woman that turns some of Odysseus' men into pigs
Circe
100
The leader of a homeward bound Greek fleet
Odysseus
100
A long extended simile found in The Odyssey
Homeric Simile
100
The amount of years the Battle of Troy lasted
10 years
200
Odysseus' wife
Penelope
200
The ones that were dangerous because of their beautiful song
The Sirens
200
The ones who make you forget home
The Lotus Eaters
200
the importance of ____ is a key theme in The Odyssey
Home/ intelligence
200
The amount of years of Odysseus' journey from the war to home
10 years
300
Fed Odysseus' men a plant that made them forget their home
Lotus Eaters
300
The one who tells Calypso to let Odysseus go
Hermes
300
Cause trouble in Ithaca; try to gain Penelope's affections and take over the kingdom
Antinous / The Suitors
300
Served as religion and science for the early Greeks
Mythology
300
The location of Sparta
Ancient Greece
400
Creature that resembles a whirlpool and can swallow men whole.
Charybdis
400
The two that can tempt and destroy men
Circe & the Sirens
400
The person that Odysseus tells that his sailors were blown off course and the ship broke up on the rocks of the island
Polyphemus
400
The amount of men that Odysseus had to leave on the island of the Lotus Eaters
Zero
400
Odysseus' greatest strength
Cleverness/ intelligence
500
Creature that has six heads and eats some of Odysseus' men
Scylla
500
The blind prophet who warns Odysseus of troubles that await him at home
Teiresias
500
the ones who Odysseus sails past, tied to the mast
The Sirens
500
The thing Calypso guarentees to Odysseus if he stays with her
His immortality
500
Identify the two things being compared "A man in a distant field, no hearth fires near, will hide a fresh brand (burning stick) in his bed of embers to keep a spark alive for the next day; so in the leaves Odysseus hid himself" (754)
Fresh brand/ burning stick and Odysseus
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