Characters met/Places known
What is Ithica?
Odysseus promised to sacrificed this first when he got home to Ithica.
What is a Heifer before she calved?
Event Teiresias is describing: "You'll find the grazing herds of Helios / by whom all things are seen, all speech is known. / Avoid those kine, hold fast to your intent" (11.628--630)
What is crew eats Helios' cattle?
Say Persephone.
What is ...
The Odyssey was written by ___.
Erebus is a place. True or False. What is it if not.
What is false? It is personification of darkness.
Odysseus sacrificed this in the underworld.
What is Black Lamb?
Event Teiresias is describing: "But if you raid the beeves, I see destruction / for ship and crew. Though you survive alone, / bereft of all companions, lost for years" (11.632--634)
What is crew dying?
Definition of flay.
What is strip of the skin?
The souls were torn by ___.
What is Brazen Lanceheads?
Teiresias is a ___ prophet.
What is a blind?
Caused the souls to come out of the pit.
What is black blood from the lamb?
The event Teiresias is predicting: "under strange sail shall you come home, to find / your own house filled with trouble: insolent men / eating your livestock as they court your lady. / Aye, you shall make those men atone in blood!" (11.635--638)
What is suitor?
Definition for beeves.
What is cattle?
Odysseus is telling his story to ____ court.
Bonus: How to spell it.
What is Alcinous's?
"Burnt offerings of flesh to the golds below- / to sovereign Death, to pale _____" (11.602--603)
What is Persephone?
Odysseus let the blood of the black lamb do this.
What is black blood drain into the well pit?
The event Teiresias is describing: "The God who thunders on the land prepares it, / not to be shaken from your track, implacable, / in rancor for the son whose eye you blinded." (11.621--623)
What is Poseidon?
What is sacrificed of 100 cattle to the gods.
Sing I'm a Little Teapot for free 400 points.
Must be melodious and pleasing to hear.
You can opt out but we will be very disappointed.
Only have to sing the chorus.
Must sing as a group/pair.
What is _____?
"Soon from the dark that prince of ___ came forward / bearing a _____ _____; and he addressed me:" (11.607-608)
What is Thebes;golden staff?
The place where the souls came from.
What is Erebus?
Event Teiresias is describing "And carry out pure hecatombs at home to all wide heaven's lords, the undying gods, to each in order. Then a seaborne death soft as this hand of mist will come upon you when you are wearied out with rich Old age." (11.651-656)
Hint: Two words
What is Odysseus' death (peaceful)?
We will say a word. You will spell it for us.
What is Teiresias?
___ translated the Odyssey packet we recieved.
What is Robert Fitzgerald?