Before Fight
Odysseus journeys to palace
Odysseus at the palace
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Vocabulary
100
Where does Odysseus go when he finally arrives in Ithaca?
What is to Eumaeus the swineherder
100
What is Odysseus' plan regarding the weapons in the great hall?
What is he has Telemachus put the weapons in the storage room.
100
What does Penelope confide to Odysseus disguised as a beggar?
What is she confides that she has put off the suitors by telling them that she had to weave a burial shroud before she married one of them.
100
Who is Telemachus?
Who is Odysseus' son.
100
Offering to a god
What is oblation
200
What does Athena tell Odysseus to do when Telemachus arrives?
What is reveal his true identity to Telemachus
200
What "member of the household" recognizes Odysseus in the disguise of a beggar?
What is Argus, his dog
200
What does Penelope decide she will use to choose a husband?
What is she will have a contest of stringing and shooting Odysseus' bow and shooting an arrow through twelve ax-handle sockets.
200
The suitor who tries to make restitution with Odysseus?
Who is Eurymachus
200
Conceal under a false appearance, disguise
What is dissemble
300
How does Odysseus get home to Ithaca?
What is the Phoenicians bring him home in their cutters
300
How does Antinous react to Odysseus disguised as a beggar?
What is he yells at Odysseus and throws a stool at him.
300
What sign does Zeus give as Odysseus strings his bow?
What is he thundered one loud crack
300
Suitor that Telemachus kills with a spear between his shoulder blades?
Who is Amphinomus
300
Stupefying or muddling
What is bemusing
400
How does Telemachus respond to Odysseus' question as to whether the two of them can take the suitors by themselves?
What is that there are too many even for Odysseus
400
How do the other suitors respond to how Antinous treats the beggar?
What is scold Antinous because they are afraid the beggar might be a god.
400
Who helps Odysseus defeat the suitors?
Who is Athena, Telemachus, Eumaeus, and faithful herdsmen.
400
Penelope's housekeeper?
Who is Eurynome
400
small swift ship or boat
What is cutter
500
Who does Odysseus say will help them fight the suitors?
What is Zeus and Athena
500
What does Penelope wish on Antinous after witnessing the way he treated the beggar?
What is that he would be hit by Apollo's bowshot.
500
What does Athena do to Odysseus' appearance after he defeats the suitors?
What is she gives him beauty head to foot.
500
Haughty suitor who throws a stool at Odysseus?
Who is Antinous
500
Unwillingness or inability to believe
What is incredulity
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