Characters
The Protagonist.
Who is Odysseus?
This is the place where Odysseus and Penelope are leaders.
What is Ithaca?
Ithaca.
All the suitors were killed and Odysseus's homeland?
The queen of Ithaca.
Who is Penelope?
The number of years Odysseus was away from Ithaca.
What are 20 years?
This person held Odysseus captive on her island.
Who is Calypso?
This island is where Odysseus and his crew were instructed to not eat the cattle and they would return to Ithica. Then somebody from the crew told them it's better to die from eating it than rather starving. So they ate the cattle and then Zeus struck all of them besides Odysseus because he was sleeping and didn't eat it.
What is Thrinacia?
The Island of the Lotus Eaters.
What is the place where Odysseus's crew would eat a flower and Would want to stay on the island?
This person is the leader of Scheria and saw how impressive Odysseus was so he asked him to take his daughter's (Nausica's) hand in marriage. Then later on he asked Odysseus what his real identity is and he broke down and told him the entire journey. So this leader gave him a ship to use to ride home.
Who is Alcinous?
The number of heads Scylla has.
What is six?
This person is a cyclops and he was blinded by Odysseus, so he called out to his father (Poseidon) to kill Odysseus for him.
Who is Polyphemus?
Odysseus ends up at this island Where Calypso keeps Odysseus captive for a few years. Then later Athena finally asks Zeusif he could let him go, so Zeus sends Hermes and Hermes tells Calypso to let him go. Calypso agrees but still tries to make him stay, it doesn't end up working.
What is Ogygia?
Aeaea.
What is the place where Circe turned Odysseus's crew into swine (pigs)?
The wind god on the island of Aeolia.
Who is Aeolus?
The reason Poseidon doesn't like Odysseus.
What is poking his son's eyeball out?
This person was the youngest crew member in Odysseus's crew. He fell off a roof on Circe's island, and in the Underworld, he told Odysseus to go back on give him a proper burial.
Who is Elpanor?
This place is where the wind god gave Odysseus a pouch of wind that would bring him safely and fastly back to Ithica. Then the crewmates were getting skeptical that Odysseus was actually keeping money in the pouch so they opened it and the wind sent them all the way back to Ithica, and the people didn't let them back in.
What is Aeolia?
The Island of the Sirens.
What is the place where Odysseus would cover his ears to stay away from hearing the singing towards the island?
The leaders (both of them) of the suitors.
Who are Eurymachus and Antinous?
The exact number of suitors in the Odyssey.
What is 108?
This person is Odysseus's crew commander on Odysseus's ship.
Who is Eurylochus?
After Odysseus and his men left Ismaros they ended up on _ island and went for food and nectar but the crewmates didn't realize that it was from a certain flower that makes you forget about home and feel very dreamy. The people on the island just wanted the best for their guests. Odysseus realized that they were away for hours he had to get them all on the ship to leave.
What is The Island of the Lotus Eaters?
Telepylos (Land of the Laestrygonians).
What is the place that the king ate one of Odysseus's scouts? Then the rest of them tried running away but the Laestrygonians smash 11 of the ships.
The queen of the Underworld.
Who is Persephone?
The number of pages in the Odyssey from book one until the end of book 24.
What is 408?