Family/Character Traits
She is the wife of Odysseus.
Who is Penelope?
He is ruler of all the gods.
Who is Zeus?
Odysseus's men are described as this after landing on this island: "never cared to report, nor to return: / they longed to stay forever, browsing on / that native bloom, forgetful of their homeland"
Who are the Lotus-Eaters?
Odysseus describes these as "giants, without a law to bless them" (line 110)
What is a Cyclops?
He is credited with creating "The Odyssey"
Who is Homer?
He is the son of Odysseus.
Who is Telemachus?
She is the goddess of wisdom and assists Odysseus on his voyage.
Who is Athena?
This is the homeland of Odysseus.
What is Ithaca?
Six-headed monster.
What is Scylla?
This "plan" made Odysseus famous in the Trojan War
What is the Trojan Horse?
He is the father of Odysseus, and a fixed epithet in the story: "Odysseus, son of ________"
Who is Laertes?
He is god of the sea.
Who is Poseidon?
Who says the following: "Nohbdy. Nohbdy's tricked me, Nohby's ruined me!"
What Polyphemus, the Cyclops
"By heaven! when she/ vomited, all the sea was like a cauldron / seething over intense fire, when the mixture suddenly heaves and rises" (lines 798-801).
What is Charybdis?
"The Iliad" follows the structure of war story and "The Odyssey" is this type...
What is the hero's journey?
Odysseus sees her in the land of the dead. The "daughter of Autolycus, dead now, though living still when I took ship for holy Troy. Seeing this ghost I grieved, but held her off, through pang on pang of tears.." (Lines 615-618).
Who is his mother?
Beautiful goddess/sorceress who trapped Odysseus on her island for seven years.
Who is Calypso?
Odysseus is trapped here for 7 years.
What is Calypso's island?
Their songs lure sailors into danger.
What are Sirens?
What/who is described in this epithet?
"Young _________ with fingertips of rose"
Dawn
Odysseus says this is the personality trait he is most famous for.
What is intelligence (craftiness, cunning)?
This god/goddess provides advice to Odysseus as to go home through the strait between the Scylla and Sirens.
Who is Circe?
Where is Odysseus where "The Odyssey" begins? (the beginning and end of the frame story)
Who is King Alcinous's hall?
She turns Odysseus's men into swine.
What is Circe?
What is being described in this epic simile?
“Like a man surfcasting on a point of rock for bass or mackerel, whipping his long rod to drop the sinker and the bait far out, will hook a fish and rip it from the surface to dangle wriggling through the air: so these were borne aloft in spasms toward the cliff”
The Scylla eating Odysseus's men