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Hodgepodge
100
The man that is hated by the gods.
Who is Ulysses?
100
To strike hard with the hand or a weapon.
What is smote?
100
The readiness of a ship for sailing.
What is trim?
100
The crew member who fell into the sea and was later seen in Tartarus.
Who is Elepenor?
100
In sailing between Scylla and Charybdis, Ulysses fails to calculate this.
What is the length of the oars?
200
Ulysses' right hand man.
Who is Eurylochus?
200
Froth or foam.
What is spume?
200
Highly offensive, unpleasant, or objectable; repulsive, or disgusting
What is vile?
200
The creatures with bodies of birds, faces of beautiful maidens, and voices of songbirds.
What is the Sirens?
200
The place that is best described as a place of black earth, sea, and dimly lit?
What is Tartarus, the Land of the Dead?
300
The god who gave Ulysses a white flower.
Who is Hermes?
300
A pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of a deity.
What is libation?
300
Part god and part mortal.
What is demigod?
300
The horrible spiderlike creature with six heads and a taste for sailors.
Who is Scylla?
300
The Keeper of the Winds, this fat demigod tries to help Ulysses.
Who is Aeolus?
400
Women who turned her husbands into animals.
Who is Circe?
400
Supplies of food, clothing, or other requisities.
What is stores?
400
Dangers or risks.
What is perils?
400
Once a beautiful naiad that Poseidon fell in love with and was changed into this ugly creature by his wife.
What is Charybdis?
400
The son of the god of sleep, he mixes dreams to soothe Ulysses' men.
Who is Morpheus?
500
He gives Ulysses good advice in the Land of the Dead.
Who is Teiresias?
500
To think fit or keeping with one's dignity; to condescend
What is deign?
500
Unsuited, inadequate, ineffectual; lacking skill or aptitude to perform a particular task.
What is inept?
500
The god of the sun.
Who is Hyperion?
500
The animal that Ulysses met upon the island of Circe's.
What is a white stag?
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