Beginning of the Odyssey
The Island of the Cyclopes
Circe's Island
Destruction of the Fleet
End of the Odyssey
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Odysseus set sail for home after the Trojan war.
How did the odyssey begin?
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A great cyclopes that eats goats and captured Odysseus and his crew.
Who is Polyphemus
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A witch who lives alone and turns people into pigs.
Who is Circe?
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They put wax in their ears and tied Odysseus to the mast.
How did the crew get past the Sirens?
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Calypso's island.
After Zeus smote his ship, where did Odysseus drift to?
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The island of the Lotus Eaters.
What was the first island that Odysseus and his crew landed on?
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Sending him into a drunken sleep and stabbing his eye out.
How did the crew blind polyphemus?
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Odysseus drank a potion from Athena.
How did Odysseus become immune to Circe's magic?
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A giant monster that creates a whirlpool sucking ships down to their doom.
What is Charybdis?
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The island Odysseus came to after he left Calypso.
What is the island of Phaeacia?
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The island of Ithaca.
Where is Odysseus' homeland?
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By riding on the back of Polyphemus's goats.
How did Odysseus' crew escape?
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The prophet Teiresius in the underworld.
Who did Circe advise Odysseus to see?
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6 people got eaten, 1 for each head.
How many people did Scylla eat?
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About 8 years
How long did Odysseus stay on Calypso's island.
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By constructing a giant wooden horse and filling it with soldiers.
How did the Greeks win the Trojan War?
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Cyclopes and goats.
What does Odyssey see on the Island?
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Not to eat the cattle of the sun god, how to get past the sirens, and how to get past Charybdis and Scylla.
What other advice did Circe give to Odysseus?
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When Odysseus went away to pray for the storm to stop.
When did the crew eat the sun god's cattle?
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The island of Ithaca
What was Odysseus' final destination?
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9 days and nights.
How long did Odysseus' fleet get blown off course?
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Threw rocks at them.
What did Polyphemus do when the crew escaped?
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About 1 year.
How long did Odysseus live on Circe's island?
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Zeus smote the last ship leaving only Odysseus alive.
What did Zeus do when the crew ate the sun god's cattle?
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Athena the Goddess of wisdom
Who told Zeus that Calypso should let Odysseus leave.
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