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These men live, eat and drink at the king's palace while Odysseus is gone.
What are suitors.
100
Odysseus washes up on this island after sabotage by Poseidon.
What is the Island of the Phaeacians.
100
Hermes gave this to Odysseus to avoid Circe's spell--turning his men into swine.
What is Moly.
100
How Telemachus avoids the ambush the suitors have planned for him.
What is accepts help from Athena.
100
How Penelope challenges her suitors and decides who to marry.
What is stringing a bow and arrow and sending it through the handles of 12 axes.
200
Odysseus's son and wife.`
Who are Telemachus and Penelope.
200
This king was impressed by Odysseus's visit and gave him a ship and crew to get home.
Who is King Alcinuous.
200
Circe sent Odysseus to Hades to visit this blind prophet.
Who is Tiresias.
200
This enables Eurycleia to recognize her master--even in disguise as an old beggar.
What is an old scar on his knee.
200
He is able to string a bow.
Who is Odysseus.
300
The reason Telemachus sets sail to visit King Menelaus.
What is to find his father, Odysseus.
300
Their delicious plant kept Odysseus's crew addicted to their taste.
What is the Lotus Eaters.
300
The number of heads Scylla has.
What is 6.
300
I am the swineherd who was saved by Odysseus's family and later helps defeat the suitors.
Who is Eumaeus.
300
Odysseus and Penelope's bed was made of this.
What is an olive tree.
400
Calypso offers Odysseus this to keep him on her island.
What is immortality.
400
I am the Cyclops who "Nobody" speared in the eye.
Who is Polyphemus.
400
What Odysseus did to protect his men from the sirens.
What is put wax in their ears.
400
The suitors' favorite thing to throw at their enemy.
What is a footstool.
400
He killed Antinuous's father.
Who is King Laertes (Odysseus' father).
500
This God tries to destroy Odysseus's trip home while this Goddess appears as a bird to help.
Who are Poseidon and Leucothea.
500
The way Odysseus ans his men evade the cyclops and sneak out of his cave.
What is tying the men to the bellies of goats.
500
Athena did this to Odysseus to protect him from being recognized by the suitors and Penelope.
What is disguised him as an old man.
500
How gods sometimes test mortals (as the suitors suspected when Antinuous disrespected the old beggar).
What is disguised themselves as mortals.
500
The God and Goddess who restore peace to Ithaca at the end of The Odyssey.
Who are Zeus and Athena.