Places/Setting
This is where the gods live.
What is Mount Olympus?
Known as excessive pride in a human being.
What is hubris?
This is where Odysseus washes up on shore after Poseidon has sent his storm and Ino has given him the veil (book 6).
What is Scheria, the island of the Phaeacians?
This god brings the message to Calypso that she must let Odysseus leave.
Who is Hermes?
This is who Eumaeus appears to be talking to when Telemachus arrives.
What is a beggar?
This is where the ruler or keeper of the winds, Aeolus, lives.
What is Aeolia?
Odysseus, being the sole speaker, giving his long story to the Phaeacians is an example of this type of speaking.
What is a monologue?
These are ugly giants with one eye who eat meat.
What are the cyclopes?
This is the man who the goddess Athena disguises herself as multiple times throughout the story.
Who is Odysseus' friend, Mentes?
This is the man who kills Antinous' father.
Who is Laertes?
This is the island where Odysseus is trapped for 7 years by Calypso.
What is Ogygia?
Ino is an example of this type of character that does not have many character traits.
What is a flat character?
This is the advice that Tiresias gives Odysseus in the underworld about Odysseus' future travels.
What is to leave alone the flocks of the Sun?
This is what Poseidon does in reaction to the Phaeacians helping Odysseus.
What is turning their ship to stone?
This is how Penelope says she will choose a suitor in Book 21.
What is stringing Odysseus' bow and shooting an arrow through 12 axes?
This is the island of the Phaeacians.
What is Scheria?
This person would be considered the MOST dynamic character throughout the text.
Who is Telemachus?
This is why all of Odysseus' men die.
What is slaughtering the flocks of the Sun?
This is Athena's final command that she gives on behalf of Zeus.
What is to make peace and recognize Odysseus as king?
This is something immoveable carved from the roots of an olive tree.
What is Penelope's bridal bed?
This is the island of the Sun, where the flocks of the Sun live.
What is Thirnacia?
This is the central topic or overall theme of The Odyssey.
What is persistence or never giving up?
This is how Odysseus gets himself and his men past the Sirens.
What is plugging his men's ears with beeswax and Odysseus being tied to the ship?
This is how Athena intervenes in Odysseus' and Telemachus' attack on the suitors.
What is guiding Odysseus' and Telemachus' weapons to hit the suitors, and guiding the suitors' weapons not to hit Odysseus and Telemachus?
This is Odysseus' plan to trick the people of the city into thinking nothing is wrong in the palace.
What is a pretend marriage feast and dance for Penelope?