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Who is Menelaus?
He gives Telémakhos evidence Odysseus may still be alive.
What is Sparta?
The place Telemachus visits when he journeys to see Menelaus.
Who is Kalypso?
She has held Odysseus captive for years when The Odyssey begins in medias res.
What are some three aspects of the following: •Spilling and drinking water mixed with wine •Sacrificing a heifer (horns gilded) that was never yoked or driven, after strewing barley on the ground, and thereafter eating the cooked meat and entrails •Slicing bulls’ tongues and flinging these with wine into the fire?
These are three different ways in which the mortals in The Odyssey honor the gods.
What is the laundry?
Athena sends Nausicaa to do this so that she will discover Odysseus naked and shipwrecked on shore.
What is killing the Cattle of the Sun?
Odysseus’s men are doomed for doing this.
What is in bed (or committing adultery)?
In the blind Phaiákian minstrel’s song, this where Hephaestus catches Arês and Aphroditê in a web of chains.
Who are •Athena (she asks Zeus) •Hermes (he visits Kalypso) •Zeus(he sends Hermes)
These three gods are responsible for Odysseus release by the braided nymph.
What are three of the following: •Feed them •Give them wine •Give them a good comfortable chair.
These are three things you do for your guests, often before you even ask who they are, if you are a good host.
What is the fact that Telémakhos was a newborn baby when Menelaus last visited Ithaka?
This fact about Telémakhos’s appearance prevents Menelaus from recognizing Telémakhos when he visits Sparta.
Who is Eurýkleia?
She is the most faithful servant of Odysseus’s household.
What is Pylos?
Ruled by Nestor, this island is Telémakhos’s first stop on his journey to inquire about Odysseus’s fate.
Who is Athena?
This deity impersonates Mentês, Mentor, and even Telémakhos to facilitate Telémakhos’s travel to Sparta.
What are ambrosia and nectar?
These are the traditional food and drink served a visiting god.
What is being swept off course for seven years, forcing him to travel to Libya, Sidon, and Arabia?
Menelaus gives this explanation for why he can’t enjoy the spoils he got following the sack of Troy.
Who is Antínoös?
He often speaks for Penélopê’s suitors and criticizes Telémakhos and Penélopê before the Ithacan assembly.
What is the land ruled by Nausicaa’s parents?
Phaiákia.
Who is Proteus (the prototypical shapeshifter)?
His daughter Eidothea disguises Menelaus and his men as seals so they can capture her father, who works for Poseidon.
What is grasping her knees (as a suppliant) or speaking to her in honeyed speech?
When Odysseus encounters Nausicaa, he is naked, swollen, and streaked with brine.
Who is Aîas?
Saved by Poseidon from the ocean despite Athena’s anger, he offended Poseidon when he bragged that his rescue had thwarted the gods’ will and the sea.
Who is Aigísthos?
As is reported several times, he conspires with Klytemnestra to kill her husband, Agamemnon
What is the name of Calypso’s Island?
Ogýgia.
Who is Hephaestus?
A god we heard about in The Iliad, he made the silver bowl Menelaus gives to Telémakhus.
What is a hecatomb?
Menelaus gets into trouble with Poseidon for not sacrificing enough of these units, each of which equal 100 oxen.
What are•A bath •Wine •Meat and other food •Some wind.
Although she has held him captive, Calypso gives Odysseus these things to make his return home easier.