Homer's "Odyssey"
The major theme that ties the Iliad and The Odyssey together is? And? that brings?
Pride/glory/ downfall
What is a distinctive and recurring form, shape, figure, design, or dominant idea?
motifs
Xenia provided? and? and?
Safety/ food/comfort
The Greek name Xenia meant? especially to visiting? or?
Hospitability/Strangers/foreigners.
The first section of Odysseus tells the reader what is happening in?
Ithaca
Three most important themes in the Odyssey are?
Hospitality/ loyalty/ vengeance
Essential motifs in the Odyssey include Odysseus? shows leadership. The shroud of Penelope gives her? over her situation
bow/control
The Omen of the? means Odysseus is returning home and the family is deeply connected.
Eagle
Themes of Odysseus are hospitality, homecoming, fate and? and? temptation and?
Deception/ Justice/ Vengeance
In the second section of the Odyssey, it tells what led to Odysseus being trapped on a?
Island
Odysseus’s son is named? What is the name of Odysseus’s wife?
Telemachus/ Penelope
Penelope is knitting a death shroud for Odysseus’?
farther Laertes
What does Penelope do with the shroud each night?
Undoes the knitting
Who is drinking and eating and waiting for Penelope to choose a new husband?
Suitors
What happens in the third section of The Odyssey? How long has Odysseus been gone from home?
Odysseus seeks revenge. 20 years
The poems the Iliad and Odyssey were performed by singers or rhapsoidos (RAP – SODES) known as?
Oral Poets
The themes at the end of the poem the Odyssey are homecoming as a virtuous person, fate,? and?
Fathers and sons,/ Mortality
The Cyclops prays to his father? to punish? who gets stranded on an island
Poseidon/ Odysseus
Who has held Odysseus captive on the island Ogygia?
Calypso a nymph
In the Epic poem, Zeus and Athena are discussing?
Helping Odysseus
The Odyssey" starts "in media res," which is a Latin phrase meaning?
in the middle of things
The Cyclops prays to his father? to punish? who gets stranded on an island.
Poseidon/ Odysseus