Not just any hero, this is a larger than life figure from history or legend.
What is an epic hero?
100
Three of Odysseus's men lose the will to go home after eating the plants on an island owned by these people.
Who are the Lotus Eaters?
100
Circe turns Odysseus' men into this type of animal.
What are pigs?
100
Paris chooses this goddess as the most beautiful goddess.
Who is Aphrodite?
100
Achilles gives his armor and his men to this character.
Who is Patroclus?
200
A person admired for great or brave acts, or fine qualities.
What is a hero?
200
Also known as the Sun God, Odysseus and his men are punished for eating his cattle.
Who is Helios?
200
Odysseus and his men hide under these to escape from Polyphemus.
What are sheep?
200
Everything is fine until Paris takes this character to Troy, and officially starts the Trojan War.
Who is Helen?
200
The reason why Achilles enters battle again.
What is "to avenge the death of Patroclus?"
300
Pride, ambition, anger, and jealousy, which often help a tragic hero achieve success, are this type of characteristic.
What is a tragic flaw?
300
This character is the son of Odysseus and the Prince of Ithaca.
Who is Telemachus?
300
This god owns the cattle on the island of Thrinakia.
Who is Helios?
300
The real reason why Agamemnon wants to go to war with Troy is to control all of this geographic area.
What is the Aegean?
300
Hector knows he is going to die in battle with Achilles once he realizes this goddess has tricked him.
Who is Athena?
400
A long narrative poem that recounts the actions, adventures, and travels of a heroic figure, called an epic hero.
What is an epic?
400
This nymph traps Odysseus on her island for seven years. Coincidentally, one year for each letter in her name.
Who is Calypso?
400
The blind prophet, Tiresias, tells Odysseus not to do this. Unfortunately, his starving crew members do it anyway.
What is "kill Helios' cattle?"
400
The nymph Thetis, mother of Achilles, warns her son of this before he goes off to fight in the Trojan War.
What is "he will die in Troy?"
400
Achilles drags this character's dead body behind his chariot, and thus angers most of the gods.
Who is Hector?
500
Also known as an epic simile, this type of simile extends a comparison with elaborate descriptive details that can fill several lines of verse.
What is a Homeric simile?
500
Also the name of an infamously capsized cruise ship, go on an "adventure" with this God of the Sea, who vows revenge against Odysseus for blinding his son.
Who is Poseidon?
500
Odysseus' quote to Penelope, "A man would think you loved the suitors' company, those dogs!" features this type of literary device.
What is a metaphor?
500
These two Greeks have an argument that turns the war in the Trojans' favor.
Who are Achilles and Agamemnon?
500
In an act of submission, King Priam does this to the man who killed his son.