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Cyclops
Death at the Palace &
Odysseus and Penelope
Gods & Goddesses
Characters
100
The ancient Greek poet who wrote two Epic Poems" The Illiad and the Odysey.
Who is Homer?
100
The island that Cyclopes lives on.
What is the island of Polyphemus?
100
The goddess who helps Odysseus trick the suitors when he returns home to Ithaca.
Who is Athena?
100
The god of the sea, who is angry with Odysseus.
Who is Poseidon?
100
The Epic Hero and protagonist of Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey.
Who is Odysseus?
200
A long narrative poem that tells about the adventure of a hero.
What is an Epic?
200
What Odysseus told the Cyclopes his name was.
What is "Nobody"?
200
The climax of the Odyssey.
What is the scene where Odysseus returns home and kills the suitors who have taken over his home and tries to marry his wife?
200
Poseidon's son.
Who is the Cyclopes?
200
Odysseus' strong and faithful wife.
Who is Penelope?
300
The idea that Odysseus had that caused the Greeks to win the Trojan War.
What is The Trojan Horse?
300
The guest host relationship that Cyclopes violates by eating his guests.
What is xenia?
300
The disguise Odysseus uses when he returns home.
What is an old beggar?
300
The witch who Odysseus spends many years trapped on an island with.
Who is Circe?
300
Odysseus' only son who he has not seen in 20 years.
Who is Telemachus?
400
The structure that many modern stories follow which is modeled after the journey in The Odyssey.
What is the Hero's Journey structure?
400
What Odysseus and his men hide under to sneak out of the Cyclops' cave.
What is a giant sheep?
400
Penelope's response to the news that Odysseus has returned home.
What is disbelief?
400
The forces that were believed to influence the everyday lives of the Greeks
What are the gods?
400
The leader of of the suitors, who begs Odysseus for forgiveness, but Odysseus vows revenge.
Who is Antonius?
500
A long, extended comparison between two events, people or things. These were often used to help people remember the stories they were telling.
What is an epic simile?
500
The tragic flaw that Odysseus displays when he claims credit for outsmarting the Cyclopes by revealing his true name as he sails away from the island.
What is Hubris?
500
Odysseus' response to Penelope's "test" of his true identity.
What is anger that leads him to reveal his true identity?
500
What Odysseus did to originally cause Poseidon to be angry with him.
What is take full credit for winning the Trojan war?
500
Penelope's maid who moves Odysseus' bed outside of the chamber as a test to see if it is really him.
Who is Eurycleia?
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