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Vocabulary
"Golden Apple of Discord"
"Sailing From Troy"
"The Lotus Eaters"
Characters!
100
A person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.
What is a hero?
100
Paris was thought to hold this future for his region.
What is the impending doom following Troy?
100
Odysseus' home was located here.
What is Ithaca?
100
The Lotus Flower had this effect on its user.
What is forgetfulness and euphoria?
100
Paris was born under this woman.
Who is Queen Hecuba of Troy?
200
A traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.
What is a myth?
200
These problems occurred when Paris was sent to his demise.
What is the inability to kill Paris?
200
Odysseus was angered at his men for these reasons.
What is being drunk and lacking ability to listen to orders?
200
Odysseus dealt with his intoxicated shipmates by doing this.
What is forcefully tying them under the rowing benches in order to influence the other shipmates not to stumble upon the same fate as the assailants?
200
This goddess offered Paris wisdom and the becoming of the greatest warrior.
Who is Athena?
300
Craftiness, or cunning.
What is guile?
300
Paris was formidable when it came to trust for these reasons.
What is the honor represented in a battle between Ares and himself?
300
The battle was fought under this land.
What is Ismarus?
300
This is what Odysseus and his crew did as they first landed on the plane of the Lotus Eaters.
What is sending two men and a runner to gather information of what race of men the land sustained?
300
This was the person Odysseus retold of his adventures to.
Who is Alcinous?
400
A scene that interrupts the sequence of events in a narrative to relate to earlier attempts.
What is a flashback?
400
The original holder of the golden apple.
Who is Eris?
400
This goddess was believed to be (subjectively) more beautiful than Odysseus' homeland, and for these reasons.
Who is Calypso, and her seductive nature?
400
These were the drawbacks Odysseus' and his army have to face when anticipating safety from the incoming army.
What are constant attacks from the eager Zeus, and the obvious lack of shipmates?
400
Odysseus' men went by this name.
Who are the Achaeans?
500
Large in scale, massive; epic in scope.
What is homeric?
500
Queen Hera offered this to Odysseus in turn of the apple.
What is domination over Europe and Asia?
500
These many benches were left empty by the time Odysseus' and his men got onto the ship.
What is six benches? (Sorry, I'm a malicious, yet lazy, individual. This is what you get for choosing a 500 point question without being prepared.) Just use this answer as a way to measure how dire their situation was.
500
An area sheltered from the wind, and the place the Lotus Eaters reside in.
What is a lee?
500
The woman offered by Aphrodite to Paris, who was the most beautiful mortal woman in the world.
Who is Helen of Sparta?