What is the place Odysseus lands, meets a princess, and then the King who helps him?
Phaeacia
100
What is the reason history was only told orally in Ancient Greece?
The people were illiterate.
100
What is the modern location of Ancient Greece?
Turkey
100
What is goddess of wisdom, skills, and warfare who helps her chosen heroes?
Athena
200
What is constantly tormented or troubled?
harried
200
What is the name of a story told inside another story? Odysseus tells one to King Alcinous.
Framed Narrative
200
What is the name of the blind poet who told the story of the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
200
What is the probable cause of the Trojan War?
Conflict over sea and trade routes.
200
What is immortal sea nymph who held Odysseus captive for many years?
Calypso
300
What is got through safely; survived?
weathered
300
What is the name of the sweet plant that makes its consumer forget his goals?
Lotus flower
300
What is the time period Homer's audience was most facinated with from 500 years earlier?
Mycenean Era
300
What is the estimated date for the beginning of the Odyssey?
1200 B.C.
300
What is god of the sea, horses, and earthquakes?
Poseidon
400
What is gatherd together?
mustered
400
What is the name of the cyclops?
Polyphemus
400
What is the name for a long narrative poem of important subject, with a huge setting, a hero, extraordinary deeds, gods or supernatural beings taking part, and has a purpose to teach and inspire?
Epic poem
400
What is the name of the greatest Greek Warrior?
Achilles
400
What is the most powerful of the gods, father of countless major and minor gods.
Zeus
500
What is kept alive; supported?
sustained
500
What is the name of the meat the men stole and ate from the cyclops?
mutton
500
What is the name of the greek paper they began writing their alphabet on around 700 B.C.
Papyrus
500
What is the object that tricked the Trojans and allowed the Greeks to win the war?