Like Father Like Son?
The reason Telemachus leave Ithaca
What is to find his father, Odysseus
Odysseus is a master of this weapon.
What is the bow?
Calypso offers Odysseus this in an attempt to convince her to stay with him.
What is immortality?
Upon first entering Polyphemus' lair, the crew's first impulse is to take this action.
What is to steal from him?
They want to "make off with the cheeses"
The way in which Odysseus' escapes Polyphemus' cave.
What is under the belly of his flock of sheep?
The reason for Telemachus' frustration in the first two books of the Odyssey.
What is the suitors and the abuse of his house's hospitality?
Odysseus loses the last members of his crew due to this action, which Odysseus warns them against.
What is eating the cattle of the sun God Helios?
Odysseus and his crew stay with Circe for this long.
Bonus: Who suggests it's time for them to leave and go back to Ithaca? +200
What is a year.
What is the crew.
In Homeric verse, the literary term for an adjective or a descriptive phrase that expresses a characteristic or a quality of a person.
What is an an epithet?
The guise of Odysseus when Telemachus first meets him.
What is a beggar.
The name of the swineherd who offers both Telemachus and Odysseus refuge when they return to Ithaca.
What is Eumaeus?
The way Odysseus makes it past the sirens but is still able to hear their song.
Bonus: What do they offer him in their song to try and lure him in? +200
What is tied to the mast of a ship?
The reason the fighting in Ithaca stops in "Book 24" the final book of this epic poem.
What is because Athena intervenes and wipes the memories of the suitors families.
In "Book 23" Penelope tests Odysseus to ascertain his true identity by asking him to do the following.
Bonus: What tree is the bed made of, and what is the significance? +200
What is to move their marriage bed which is rooted into the ground?
Aka-- one "post" of the bed is a rooted stump, the bed was built around this stump, such that it can't be moved.
Penelope deceives the suitors by weaving and unweaving the following item.
What is a burial shroud?
Telmachus is instructed by Odysseus to do this upon his father's signal in order to ensure he and his father are ready to fight the suitors.
Odysseus' nursemaid, Eurycleia, is the first to notice Odysseus is home. This is what allows her to identify him.
What is by the scar on his leg he got hunting boar?
Circe, after falling to her knees when Odysseus brandishes a dagger at her, invites Odysseus to do the following.
What is to "mount her gorgeous bed"?
Scylla, a sea monster created by a jealous Circe, eats this many of Odysseus' men.
What is six?
Penelope finally decides to marry and arranges a test of strength to determine who she'll marry. What is this test of strength?
What is to string Odysseus' bow and launch an arrow through a series of ax heads?
The people Telemachus goes to talk to when he departs Ithaca.
What is the Greek kings Menelaus and Nestor.
The tricky way in which Odysseus initially avoids the suitors' families learning about their slaughter.
What is he orders musicians to play music so the neighbors think a wedding feast is occurring?
Circe alters the crew's appearance in this way when she turns them from swine back into men.
What is she makes them younger and more handsome?
The fate of Odysseus' loyal dog Argos.
What is to die upon seeing his owner finally home?
The fate of Penelope's handmaids.
What is to be hung?