Vocab
What a baby sheep is called
Lamb
Chief God, lived on Mt. Olympus
Zeus
Giants with one eye in the middle of their forehead
Cyclops
King of Ithaca
Odysseus
Where was Odysseus fighting a war?
Troy
A baby deer is called a
fawn
God of the sea
Poseidon
Beautiful women with legs, wings, and songs of birds
Sirens
Queen of Ithaca
Penelope
When Odysseus returned to Ithaca, what did Athena disguise him as?
A begger
A man who wants to marry a woman is a
Suitor
Messenger God, had wings on his sandals and helmet
Hermes
A monster with 6 hideous heads and 12 feelers with claws
Scylla
The suitor that hit Odysseus with a stool
Antinous
Penelope told the suitors that she would marry the one that could do what?
String the bow and shoot it
When you don’t take care of something
neglect
God that owned sacred cattle
Apollo
Odysseus’s faithful dog
Argos
Son of the king and queen of Ithaca
Telemachus
What did Odysseus have his men do to him so he could hear the Sirens sing?
Tie him to the mast
Another name for a girl or young woman is
Maiden
Goddess of wisdom and daughter of Zeus
Athena
A beautiful sorceress that turned Odysseus’s men to pigs
Circe
A blind poet that told the Odyssey
Homer
What did Circe tell Odysseus would happen if his men ate the sacred cattle?
Odysseus would return home lonely and late