Epic Similes
Odysseus is compared to ______ during his first meeting with Nausicaa.
A mountain lion
How did the Greeks finally defeat the Trojans?
The Trojan Horse
What is Odysseus' disguise when he returns to Ithaca?
A beggar
What's the dog's name?
Argos
What is the name of the first four books of The Odyssey?
The Telemachy
What birds are the slave girls compared to as they are killed?
Doves and thrushes
Dark, sweet wine from Apollo's priest
How does Eurycleia recognize Odysseus?
The scar on his foot
Who is the first suitor to die?
Antinous
What story does Nestor tell Telemachus as a form of warning?
Aegisthus, Agamemnon, and Clytemnestra
What part of Odysseus' journey is used in an epic simile to describe his reunion with Penelope?
Shipwreck
What (less famous) tricky tactic did Odysseus use to gather intel during the Trojan War?
He disguised himself as a bruised, beaten Trojan slave and crept into the city.
Where does Odysseus lose the last of his men?
Shipwreck after Helios' island
How does Elpenor die?
Drunk, falls off a roof
How many days does he tell his nurse to wait before she tells Penelope he's gone?
12
What epic simile is used, in the build-up to the suitors' slaughter, to describe Odysseus' impatience?
A man roasting a sausage
Which 2 people does Odysseus spare during his massacre of the suitors?
Phemius and Medon
How does Poseidon punish the Phaeacians?
Turns a ship to stone, threatens to cover the island with a mountain
What must the ghosts in Hades do in order to speak to the living?
Drink the sheep's blood
Where are the two places Telemachus visits?
Pylos (Nestor)
Sparta (Menelaus and Helen)
What simile is used when the men stab Polyphemus' eye with a spear?
A blacksmith dipping an axe or adze in ice-cold water (the crackle!)
OR
A man drills wood for shipbuilding
What prophesied event led Agamemnon to believe the end of the war was finally approaching?
Which Phaeacian taunts Odysseus into throwing the discus?
Euryalus
How does Ajax (the Lesser, the one who desecrated the temple--not the one who fought with Odysseus over the armor) die?
Survives a storm, takes credit and doesn't thank the gods (hubris), Poseidon splits the rock he's sitting on and he falls into the sea and drowns
Why does Telemachus hang the slave girls instead of slashing them?
-keep his house clean
-not grant them a clean death
-too timid to attack w/ sword