Wanderings
Goddess who lives on the island of Aeaea
Who is Circe?
This god curses the Phaeacians for assisting Odysseus on his journey home
Who is Poseidon?
Odysseus enters the cave of the cyclops looking for this.
What are gifts?
The first four books of the Odyssey are sometimes referred to as this.
What is the Telemachia/Telemachy?
This god gives Odysseus a bag of winds, but only one.
Who is Aeolus?
This goddess is commanded by Zeus to release Odysseus so that he can return home.
Who is Calypso?
Odysseus stays with Circe for this length of time, until his men urge him to depart for home.
What is one year?
This is a descriptive device used to highlight a defining characteristic of a literary figure
What is an epithet?
The two lands to which Telemachus journeys after leaving Ithaca.
What are Pylos and Sparta?
This son of Poseidon definitely fails to observe xenia
Who is Polyphemus?
The two men whom Athene disguises herself as while assisting Telemachus
Who are Mentor and Mentes?
Odysseus loses this number of men to Scylla.
What is six?
The term xenia is derived from the root word xenos, which carries these two distinct meanings
Xenos means both "stranger" and "guest"
These two people provide Odysseus with prophecies about his journey home to Ithaca.
Who are Tieresias and Circe?
Island where Odysseus lost all but one of his ships
Island of the Laestrygonians
This god guards the rules of hospitality
Zeus
The nurse, Eurycleia, recognizes Odysseus by his scar, from a wound he received doing what?
What is hunting boar on Mount Parnassus?
Homer uses this extended device to compare two unlike things
What is an epic simile?
The first stop made by Odysseus and his men after departing Troy. It didn't end well.
What is the island of the Cicones?
These two characters live on either side of the Strait of Messina
Who are Scylla and Charybdis
This god's cattle live on the Island of the Sun
Who is Helios?
Odysseus name means "man of suffering" and was given to him by this person.
Who is his grandfather, Autolycus?
From the Latin meaning "to call upon," this is the epic poet's appeal for divine assistance when telling his tale
What is the invocation of the muse?
The fate of the ship that finally deposits Odysseus on the shores of Ithaca.
What is turned to stone by Poseidon?