Odysseus is the strategic hero of this war that precedes The Odyssey.
What is the Trojan War?
100
Homer calls on this for inspiration at the beginning of The Odyssey.
What is Muse?
100
Books 9-12 are told in this form from King Alcinous' court.
What is flashback?
100
Name ONE of the ways Odysseus and his men safely bypass the Sirens.
What is 1) tie Odysseus to the mast of the boat, 2) put wax in the men’s ears so they will not hear them, or 3) refuse to let Odysseus go even when he starts to yell.
200
I am a giant, I only have one eye, and I hate Nohbdy.
Who is Polyphemus the Cyclops?
200
The Odyssey is a long narrative poem also known as this.
What is an epic poem?
200
This god delivers the message from Zeus that Calypso must let Odysseus leave her island.
Who is Hermes?
200
This happens immediately after Odysseus and his men blind Polyphemus.
What is Polyphemus shouts "Nohbdy's tricked me, Nohbdy's ruined me!" (Homer 9.316-17).
200
Though he must make a hard decision, Odysseus chooses to sail close to Scylla and only lose this many men.
What is six?
300
I am a beautiful goddess who kept Odysseus on my island with me for seven years.
Who is Calypso?
300
Characters, situations, and images that are recognizable in many times and cultures are known as these.
What are archetypes?
300
Hermes is known as the ____________ god because delivers messages from the gods to mortals.
What is messenger?
300
This is how Odysseus saves his men from the Lotus Eaters.
What is he forces them to go to the boat and ties them under the benches.
300
This is what happens to Odysseus' men after they eat Helios' cattle.
What is Zeus hurls a thunderbolt at the ship and drowns the men?
400
I am the goddess of wisdom and Odysseus' guardian.
Who is Athena?
400
A reference to a famous person, place, or event is known as this.
What is an allusion?
400
"To this, the strategist Odysseus answered..." (Homer 5, 80) is an example of what?
What is an epithet?
400
Odysseus displays this questionable behavior after convincing Circe to release his men.
What is he stays with her for an entire year?
400
Athena does this for Odysseus and Telemachus in the final battle scene with the suitors.
What is waits for them to prove themselves, then shows her shield?
500
I am a blind prophet who resides in the underworld.
Who is Tiresias?
500
The Odyssey would have originally been recited publicly by one of these.
What is a bard?
500
These TWO events occur after Hermes commands Calypso to let Odysseus leave her island.
What is: Calypso attempts to persuade Odysseus to stay, and Odysseus uses his strategic skills to leave the island without angering Calypso.
500
This theme is prevalent in Book 11: The Land of the Dead.
What is prophecy?
500
This is what Penelope does to determine Odysseus' identity.
What is she tells him the bed he made for her has been moved?