People
Monsters
Places
Vocabulary/Literary Terms
Gods
100

Who is the son who travels to find news of his father

Who is Telemachus?

100

Former goddess who is now a monster with six heads

Who is Scylla?

100

Odysseus' home

What is Ithaca?

100

The genre of The Odyssey

What is an epic poem?

100

This god despises Odysseus

Who is Poseidon?

200

Disguised as a "stranger" beggar in his own home

Who is Odysseus?

200

The son of Poseidon, blinded by Odysseus

Who is Polyphemus?

200

Place with magical flowers

What is the Island of the Lotus Eaters?

200

The formula for the cycle about people who transform through a story

What is the hero's journey?

200

This goddess favors Odysseus and Telemachus

Who is Athena?

300

Blind prophet in the underworld

Who is Tiresias?

300

Maidens who sing a tempting song to lure sailors to their death

Who are the sirens?

300
Island where the sorceress goddess lives

What is Aeaea?

300

This Greek word means hospitality

What is xenia?

300

The sun god whose cattle was devoured

Who is Helios?

400
Odysseus' father

Who is Laertes?

400

Deadly whirlpool

What is Charybdis?

400

Place where Odysseus tells the story of his journey

What is Phaeacia?

400

This Greek word means honor and glory

What is kleos?

400

This goddess warned Odysseus about the trials he will face on his journey home

Who is Circe?

500

The crew member who initiates the eating of the cattle of the sun

Who is Eurylochus?

500

Man eating giants

Who are Lastrygonians/Lastrygones?

500

Place that Odysseus' and his crew ransack after the Trojan War

What is Ismarus/Land of the Cicones?

500

Epic term for another name or title for someone

What is an epithet?

500

This god commands Calypso to let Odysseus leave her island

Who is Hermes?

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