The Odyssey
Modern meanings
Modern meanings
Ancient meanings
Ancient Meanings
100
What is the famous saying: "beware of Greeks bearing _______"
What is gifts?
100
This is the scientific name for a spider
What is an arachnid?
100
This is the king of the ancient Greek Gods.
Who is Zeus?
100
This is the Titan that held up the world
What is Atlas?
100
This was an ancient beast with a head of a lion, back of a sheep and a tail of a snake.
What is a chimera?
200
Paris shot Achilles with a bow here. It was the only weak part of Achilles.
What is the heel?
200
This term means a very handsome man.
What is an Adonis?
200
This term is sometimes used if you are a good teammate.
What is an Argonaut?
200
This term in ancient Greek meant "naked exercise."
What is Gymnasium?
200
The Greeks are famous for starting this. It literally means "people rule"
What is Democracy?
300
This was the name of the women that was taken by Paris of Troy. Her name was _______ of Troy
What is Helen?
300
This term was based on the Colossus of Rhodes
What is colossal?
300
The Oath you have to say to become a doctor
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
300
This was a group of elite fighting women in ancient Greece.
What are the Amazons?
300
This is the term for what Achilles suffered from that made him not a good leader. Lü Bu suffered from it as well.
What is Hubris?
400
This is the war that Odysseus was coming home from.
What is the Trojan War?
400
He was given the death penalty for breaking into jewelry store. What term would explain this decision?
What is Draconian
400
If youre good in business and make good decisions. People will say that you have this touch.
What is the Midas touch?
400
This is the women that you would have to ask for inspiration from if you wanted to be a good artist or writer.
What is a muse
400
This was the food of the Gods. It would make humans disintergrate
What is Ambrosia?
500
Odysseus needed help from this God in order to think up the Trojan horse idea
Who is Athena?
500
Echo was the last person that this confident man rejected.
Who is Narcissus?
500
This term means a very lazy person
What is a lotus eater?
500
This is the location of the famous oracle that Klobis and Biton helped their mother get to.
What is Dephi?
500
This is the island from which the poet Sappho came from?
What is Lesbos?