Important Vocabulary Terms
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After Zeus destroyed his ship, Odysseus’ only means of __ was a few pieces of wood.
What is conveyance?
The goddess who turned Odysseus into an old beggar
Who is Athene/Athena?
Turned Odysseus’s men into pigs
Who is Circe?
The two individuals who caused the Trojan war
Who are Paris & Helen?
What is Paris steals Helen from her husband – a Greek King, and takes her to Troy?
Greek concept of unconditional hospitality
What is Xenia?
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After each of Odysseus’ men are killed, he experiences extreme __ for their death.
Destroyed Odysseus’ ship with lighting—killing all of his men
Who is Zeus?
The leader of the suitors who hit Odysseus with a stool
Who is AntinoÖs?
In Homer’s time, heroes were considered to be...
What are aristocrats (between gods & ordinary men)?
The Greek concept of excessive pride
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Odysseus and his men aren’t able to move the great rock on Polyphemus’ cage because it’s so __.
What is ponderous?
Odysseus’ men killed his cattle
Who is Helios?
Gave Odysseus a bag of wind
Who is Aiolos?
What Odysseus' men eat that made them forget of home
What is the Lotus?
Teiresias’s warning to avoid Helios’s cattle (line 113) is an example of...
What is foreshadowing?
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Malantho gives “the beggar” __ remarks for being poor and dirty.
What is haughty?
Sea monster which ate six men
Who is Skylla?
Odysseus’s loyal friend back in Ithaca
Who is Eumaios?
The year the setting of The Odyssey took place
When is 1200 B.C.E.?
“but [he] sprang up and reached for my companions,/ caught up two together and slapped them, like killing puppies,/ against the ground, and the brains ran all over the floor, soaking/ the ground. Then he cut them up limb by limb and got supper ready” (IX.288-291).
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What is an Epic Simile?
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Theoclymenus tries to warn to the suitors to leave because Odysseus will return soon and will feel __ for all the wrong they’ve done to his palace.
What is indignation?
The name of Poseidon's son who Odysseus injures
Who is Polyphemos?
People who heard Odysseus’s story and brought him back home
Who are the Phaiakians?
Odysseus is here when the Odyssey begins.
What is Ogygia, the island of Calypso?
While the men blind the Cyclops, Odysseus says, “So with our brand we bored that great eye socket while blood ran out around the red hot bar. Eyelid and lash were seared; the pierced ball hissed broiling, and the roots popped.”
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What is imagery?