Terms and Background
Odysseus
Gods
Godesses
Monsters and Mayhem
100
This is the city where Odysseus and other Greeks fought in a ten-year war.
What is Troy?
100
Odysseus is given credit for thinking of this object that ended the Trojan War.
What is the Trojan horse or a wooden horse?
100
This messenger god was sent to tell one of Odysseus's captors to let him go.
Who is Hermes?
100
This daughter of Zeus and the mortal Leda began a ten-year war when she had an "affair" with Paris.
Who is Helen?
100
These are beautiful sea nymphs whose singing lures sailors to steer their ships toward dangerous rocks.
Who are the Sirens?
200
These are long narrative poems that tell of the adventures of a hero.
What are epics?
200
To help them escape from a one-eyed monster, Odysseus ties his men under this animal.
What are sheep or rams?
200
This god rules the Underworld or the Land of the Dead.
Who is Hades?
200
She is the godess of wisdom, who often aids Odysseus.
Who is Athena?
200
This group offers strangers a "honeyed plant" that makes them forget about home.
Who are the Lotus Eaters?
300
These are traditional stories that usually explain a belief, ritual, or a mysterious natural phenomenon.
What are myths?
300
To keep his men from hearing dangerous singing, Odysseus puts this into their ears.
What is beeswax or wax?
300
This God destroys Odysseus's only remaining men and ship with a thunderbolt.
Who is Zeus?
300
This enchantress turned Odysseus's men into swine but then later told Odysseus his future.
Who is Circe?
300
This monster is a shepherd who lives in a cave.
Who is Cyclops?
400
He composed the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
400
Odysseus was doing this while his men were eating forbidden meat.
What is sleeping?
400
This god becomes angry at Odysseus for blinding his son Polphemus.
Who is Poseidon?
400
This beautiful godess kept Odysseus a "prisoner" on her island for seven years.
Who is Calypso?
400
This female monster, who has six serpent heads and a dozen tentacles, ate six of Odysseus's men.
Who is Scylla?
500
This war epic preceeded The Odyssey.
What is the Iliad?
500
Odysseus visits this blind prophet in the Land of the Dead.
Who is Teiresias?
500
This God becomes angry at Odysseus's men for eating his precious cattle.
Who is Helios?
500
She came out of Chaos and married her son Uranus.
Who is Gaia or Mother Earth?
500
This female monster creates a whirlpool that could have swallowed Odysseus's entire ship.
Who is Charybdis?
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