Monsters
Gods/Goddesses
SAT Words
Home Sweet Home
Odysseus and his family
100
What is the monster with only one eye
Who is Cyclopes
100
Who was the god/goddess that gave Odysseus the shield during the battle in the great hall
Who is Athena
100
Phrases that point out the traits of someone.
What is an epithet
100
The dog Argos represents the virtue of ________
What is Loyalty
100
What is the name of Odysseus's wife?
Who is Penelope
200
Who is the nymph that kept Odysseus on her island for 7 years.
Who is Calypso
200
This god/goddess is the one who Odysseus upset when he injured his son.
Who is Poseidon
200
To seize control by force.
What is commandeer
200
Penelope shows her true feelings for Odysseus by......
Weeping over Odysseus's bow
200
What is the name of Odysseus's son?
Who is Telemachus
300
What is the monster that sings to lure sailors into there rocks to shipwreck them.
Who is sirens
300
This god/goddess is the one Odysseus visited in the underworld.
Who is Hades
300
An indirect reference to a well-known figure or literary text.
What is an allusion
300
This person it the first person that Odysseus visits when he returns to Ithaca. (this person is a swineherd)
Who is Eumaeus
300
What is Odysseus's dogs name?
Who is Argous
400
What is the name of the Cyclops
Who is Polyphemus.
400
This god/goddess is the one that told Calypso to release Odysseus and his men.
Who is Hermes
400
Repayment (for something lost or stolen).
What is Restitution
400
This person tries to persuade Odysseus to spare the lives of the suitors by saying that the suitors were merely followers, not leaders.
Who is Eurymachus
400
How long was Odysseus away from home?
What is 20 years
500
What is the monster that creates whirlpools to destroy passing ships?
What is Charybdis
500
This is the god/goddess of the wind.
Who is Aeolus
500
Excessive pride or self confidence.
What is Hubris
500
Odysseus believes that no one but a god could have moved his bed because...
He built it from a tree still rooted in the ground.
500
What is the suitors name who got shot first?
Who is Antinous
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