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100

Who is Pisistratus's father?

King Nestor

100
Where does King Menelaus live?

Pylos

100

What is Pisistratus's epithet?

Son-of-Nestor

100

What does "When Dawn with her rose-red fingers shone once more" symbolize?

The start of a new day

100

Why can't Telemachus fall asleep in Menelaus's Palace?

Anxious thoughts about his father

200

Who is Menelaus's father?

Atreus

200

Where does Athena travel through spacious dancing rings to warn Telemachus to come home?

Lacedaemon

200

What is Athena's epithet in this book?

Bright-Eyed

200

What gift does Helen give Telemachus before his departure?

a robe

200

What did Artemis shower on the people that took away Eumaeus from Syries on the Seventh day before Odysseus arrived to Ithaca?

arrows

300

Which of Menelaus's sons is told to bring Telemachus a mixing bowl?

Megapenthes

300

Where was Eumaeus born?

Syrie

300

What is Menelaus's epithet in THIS book?(OTHER than the red haired king)

The lord of war cry / captain of armies

300

Who does Eumaeus never hear from anymore?

Queen Penelope

300

Why does Athena tell Telemachus to make Menelaus speedy in letting him return to Ithaca?(two answers)

A. The suitors will carve up his wealth

B. Penelope's father and brothers are urging her to marry Eurymachus 

400

Who comes to Menelaus's palace to build a fire and broil meat for Telemachus's journey home?

Eteoneus

400

Theoclymenus kills a man of his own tribe who has brothers and kin where?

Argos

400

What is Eumaeus's epithet?

loyal swineherd

400

When leaving Pylos to go to Ithaca, where does Telemachus pray and sacrifice to Athena on his ship?

the stern

400

What does the eagle with a white goose in its talons symbolize?

It symbolizes that when Odysseus gets home he will have revenge on the suitors if he isn't home already

500

Who was the driver of armies whom storming Zeus and Apollo loved intensely?

Amphiaraus

500

Where is Diocese' halls located?

Phera

500

What is the prophet Theoclymenus's epithet?

godlike seer

500

What does the swineherds father's servant steal from him before she leaves with the Phoenician group?

Gold

500

What sign does Apollo send to Telemachus and what is the interpretation of the sign?

a hawk with a dove tight in its claws, and it is interpreted as that Telemachus's family line will rule Ithaca forever.