This goddess of wisdom helps Odysseus on his journey.
Who is Athena?
100
A one-eyed, brutish giant.
What is a cyclops?
100
“Calypso, loveliest among goddesses” is an example of this literary technique.
What is an epithet?
100
Odysseus’s homeland.
What is Ithaca?
100
Odysseus's faithful wife.
Who is Penelope?
200
The father of the Cyclopes, he prevents Odysseus's return home.
Who is Poseidon?
200
These half-bird, half-woman creatures lure sailors with their singing.
What are sirens?
200
“When the young Dawn with fingertips of rose lit up the world” is an example of this literary technique.
What is personification?
200
At Circe's house, she forced Odysseus's men into this place.
What is a pigsty?
200
Odysseus's son.
Who is Telemachus?
300
He signaled his approval of Odysseus by making a thundercloud appear.
Who is Zeus?
300
An underwater monster that makes whirlpools that sucks in ships.
What is Charybdis?
300
“His nostrils jetted crimson runnels” is an example of this literary technique.
What is imagery?
300
Odysseus washed up on the beach of his home island after escaping Calypso.
Who is Alcinous?
300
The skeptical shipmate who was not fooled by Circe.
Who is Eurylochus?
400
He is the messenger god who gives Odysseus a moly plant to protect him from Circe.
Who is Hermes?
400
She ate six of Odysseus’s men, one for each head.
What is Scylla?
400
These two things are being compared in this quotation:
“After them, the attackers wheeled as terrible as falcons ...diving with talons unsheathed on flights of birds”.
What is Odysseus and his men, and falcons hunting?
400
The army in this land outnumbered Odysseus's men.
What is Cicones?
400
The first of the suitors to be killed.
Who in Antinous?
500
This animal was created by Poseidon and he did not like when it was used to trick his people.
What is a horse?
500
The first name of the one-eyed giant who cursed Odysseus.
What is Polyphemous?
500
This god is assigned the epithet “earthshaker” and "blue girdler of islands".
Who is Poseidon?
500
Odysseus found him in the Underworld so he could learn the way to go home.