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He offers to provide a ship so that Odysseus can return home from the Phaecians.
Who is King Alcinous?
100
She turned Odysseus' men into pigs with a powerful drug.
Who is Circe?
100
Odysseus, finishing his tale, gathers his gifts and loads them aboard a ship set for this place. When the ship arrives, Odysseus is sound asleep so the crew gently lifts him and his belongings onto the shore.
What is Ithica?
100
Odysseus visits him in his hut in a clever disguise designed by Athena.
Who is Eumaeus?
100
In this religion, their goal is to become one with the Moksha?
What is Buddhism?
200
This blind bard sings of the Trojan Horse, which cause Odysseus to cry.
Who is Demodocus?
200
The bag of the winds did this.
What is the gift Odysseus received from Aeolus to guide his crew home. It was also opened by his crew and created a storm that sent them back to the island they were on?
200
This monster is a sister to Charybdis. It is a six-headed monster that swoops down and gobbles up sailors.
What is Scylla?
200
When Athena travels to Sparta she finds Telemachus and Pisistratus, Nestor’s son, asleep in Menelaus’s palace. She appears to Telemachus in a dream and tells him this.
What is "You must hurry home to Ithica before the suitors win your mothers hand in marrige."?
200
Laozi was the founder of this.
What is Daoism?
300
At this island, six of Odysseus' men on each ship were killed by cicones.
What is Ismarus?
300
Odysseus' lover, Circe tells him this when he asks for directions home.
What is Circe tells him to sail to Hades, the realm of the dead, to speak with Tiresias who will tell him how to get home?
300
Athena, disguised as a this, meets Odysseus when he reaches his homeland and tells him to meet Eumaeus in his hut.
What is a Shepard?
300
When Telemachus leaves Sparta he sees a Eagle carrying a goose stolen from a pen and when he gets to Ithaca he sees a Hawk carrying a dove in its talons he know these sightings represent this.
What is a good omen?
300
This is builder responsible for the Great Pyramid.
Who is Khufue?
400
This happens when Odysseus' men eat the intoxicating fruit of the Lotus.
What is They dont want to go home?
400
This person foretells Odysseus' fate.
Who is Tiresias?
400
Odysseus has his crew mates do what to keep him from falling into the sirens trap.
What is bind him tight to the mast of the ship?
400
Odysseus lies and tells Eumaeus this to keep his cover.
What is "I am from Crete. i fought in the battle of Troy and made it home safely."?
400
This woman wrote "Lessons for women".
Who is Ban Zhou?
500
At the land of this cyclops, Odysseus pokes him in the eye and tells him that his name is nobody; the cyclops ran around yelling, "Nobody is killing me!"
Who is Polyphemus
500
Sisyphus and Tantulas endured this punishement in the Realm of the Dead.
What is Sisyphus was eternally struggling with pushing a boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down again whenever it reaches the top, and Tantalus was agonized by thirst and hunger- he sits in a pool of water over hung by bunches of grapes, but whenever he leans down to drink, the water sinks out of reach, and whenever he tries for the grapes, they rise out of reach?
500
Odysseus and his men stop at the this island where they are instructed not to touch the this god's sheep. But when their resources run out, a crewman convinces the others to slay a sheep. Which angers this god.
What is the Sun?
500
After spending a night with Eumaeus, in the morning, Odysseus and Eumaeus do this.
What is swap stories?
500
Moses led the Hebrew out of Egypt in what was know as this.
What is the "Exodus"?