Vocab
Gods
Goddesses
Knowledge
Facts
100
A cause of great suffering and distress
What is affliction.
100
God of the sun.
Who is Helios.
100
Goddess of magic.
Who is Circe.
100
Into what did Circe begin turning Odysseus' crew?
What is pigs.
100
Which story comes first the Illiad or the odyssey?
What is the Illiad.
200
Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.
What is baleful.
200
God of the sea and the brother of Zeus, Hades and Hera.
Who is Poseidon.
200
Goddess of snow, ice and wind.
Who is Khione.
200
Allies of the Trojans, who live at Ismarus?
Who is Cicones.
200
How long is Odysseus away from home?
What is 20 years.
300
The act of despoiling a country in warfare.
What is Rapine
300
Patron of Travellers, Messenger of the gods and the king of thieves.
Who is Hermes.
300
Greek goddess of wisdom and battle strategy, and was also the patron goddess of heroes.
Who is Athena.
300
Who were the brothers who gathered Greeks to fight in the Trojan war?-
Who is Agamemnon and Menelaus.
300
Composer of the odyssey?
Who is Homer.
400
Discretion in practical affairs
What is prudence.
400
The King of the gods and God of Thunder, lightning, sky, and girls.
Who is Zeus.
400
Goddess of love and beauty
Who is Aphrodite.
400
6 Headed monster?
Who is Scylla.
400
When Telemachus returns to Ithaca, who does he visit first?
Who is Eumaeus.
500
Great physical or mental suffering; agony
What is anguish.
500
Ruler of the underworld.
Who is Hades.
500
Hades' wife
Who is Persephone.
500
One eyed giant and son of Poseidon?
Who is Polyphemos
500
Define a Homeric simile?
What is comparing mortal to god.
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