General Information
The main character of The Odyssey.
Who is Odysseus?
The animal that the cyclops is herding.
What are sheep/rams?
The realm of the dead is also called this name.
What is the underworld?
The number of heads that Scylla has.
What is six?
The name of the Sun God, the God of Noon.
Who is Helios?
The author of the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
The fake name that Odysseus first tells to the Cyclops.
Who is Nohbdy?
The name of the prophet that Odysseus and his men are trying to meet with.
Who is Tiresias?
The number of times that Charybdis attacks a day.
What is three?
This event traps Odysseus and his men on the Sun God's island.
What is bad weather?
The war that the men are returning from in The Odyssey.
What is the Trojan War?
The name of the father of the Cyclops.
Who is Poseidon?
The person that moves Odysseus to tears when greeting them in the Land of the Dead.
Who is his mother, Anticlea?
The two ways the crew can survive the Siren song.
What is beeswax and being tied to the ship?
This is what Odysseus is doing while his men are eating Helio's animals.
What is sleeping?
The name of the King the story of The Odyssey is being presented to at his court.
Who is King Alcinous?
The name of the Cyclops.
Who is Polyphemus?
The two animals given (or promised) for sacrifice to summon the prophet.
What are a lamb and a pregnant heifer?
The person that gives Odysseus advice about the sea monsters he will face.
Who is Circe?
This god helps the Sun God in punishing the remaining crew and ship that Odysseus has.
Who is Zeus?
The person that is prayed to for inspiration at the very beginning of The Odyssey (in the Invocation).
Who is a Muse?
The type of tree branch that was used to blind the Cyclops.
What is an olive branch?
The name of the recently killed soldier that they encounter in the Land of the Dead.
Who is Elpenor?
This animal-related warning is given for a second time by the goddess giving Odysseus advice in this story.
What is "do not eat the cattle?"
These creepy, unnatural things take place after the gods curse the crew for their hungry actions.
What is the cow meat moving and mooing?