Vocabulary Level 1
Definition: arrogant
What is haughty?
Definition: small, swift ship or boat carried aboard a large ship to transport personnel or supplies.
What is a cutter?
At Odysseus's signal, Telemachus is to
What is remove the weapons from the hall?
The name of the first human to meet Odysseus in Ithaca.
Who is Eumaeus?
The reason Athena whispers in Telemachus' ear as he sleep aboard his ship.
What is to avoid the suitors' ambush?
Definition: fairness; justice
What is equity?
Definition: conceal under a false appearance; disguise
What is dissemble?
These people are punished by having to clean the blood and corpses from the hall before they are executed.
Who are Penelope's maids?
The name of the king who provides Odysseus with passage home.
Who is King Alcinous?
This god ends the fighting between Odysseus's men and the suitors' families.
Who is Athena?
Definition: stupefying or muddling
What is bemusing?
Definition: tearfully or foolishly sentimental
What is maudlin?
The two men who Telemachus asks to spare.
Who are the Minstrel and the Herald?
Odysseus's disguise in part 2 of the Odyssey
What is a beggar?
Athena conceals Odysseus's treasures here until he has reclaimed his home from the suitors.
What is a cave sacred to nymphs?
Definition: disdain or scorn
What is contempt?
Definition: people who get out of doing what needs to be done.
What are shirkers?
After Odysseus and Telemachus kill the suitors, these people want revenge.
Who are the suitors' families?
The name of Odysseus's faithful companion who lived for 20 years just to see his master again.
Who is Argos, Odysseus's dog?
The rude suitor who kicks Odysseus prays to this god for Telemachus' death?
Who is Apollo?
Definition: the quality of being shamelessly bold; disrespectful
What is impudence?
Definition: unwillingness or inability to believe
What is incredulity?
The reason Telemachus agrees to let the son of the prophet Polyphides aboard his ship.
What is being hunted by the friends of the man he killed?
The name of the prophet who Telemachus graciously provides refuge to on his ship.
Who is Theoclymenus?
Athena is called this in her male form
What is Mentor?