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The Odyssey teaches about the Greeks belief that all visitors came from the gods and should be treated well, or _________.
What is hospitably.
100
On ______ island, the men find wolves and mountain lions as tame as pets.
Who is Circe's?
100
In the underworld, Odysseus is addressed by the seer _________, who warns him not to raid the cattle of Helios, the sun god.
Who is Teiresias?
100
The first books of the epic, one through four, tell about Odysseus’ son, _________.
Who is Telemachus?
100
Odysseus lands on the island of ______ and falls asleep in a pile of leaves.
What is Scheria?
200
The _______ ___ began when Paris took advantage of Menelaus hospitality and took his wife, Helen.
What is Trojan War?
200
The crew finds Circe _______ and singing a song, suggesting that this is an important craft.
What is weaving?
200
Teiresias tells ________ that when he finally arrives home, he will find his household in disarray.
Who is Odysseus?
200
Telemachus has been searching the ________ world for his father, who has never returned from the ten-year Trojan War.
What is Mediterranean?
200
Odysseus becomes a guest of _______, king of the Phaeacians, where he tells of the hissing sound made when he poked out Polyphemus' eye.
Who is Alcinous?
300
The Cyclops, _______, fails to be hospitable and Odysseus and his men blind him and escape.
Who is Polyphemus?
300
Using some special wine, Circe turns the Odysseus' men into _______.
What is swine
300
Teiresias instructs Odysseus that after slaying his wife’s suitors, he must make a sacrifice to ________.
Who is Poseidon?
300
Trapped on ________ fragrant island, Odysseus has grown weary of her enchantment.
What is Calypso’s?
300
To the ancient people of Greece and Asia Minor, all guests were _______, but the Cyclops thought guests should be eaten.
What is godsent?
400
_________ suitors in Ithaca take advantage of Odysseus’ hospitality.
Who is Penelope’s?
400
______ gives Odysseus a plant to help him fight Circe.
Who is Hermes?
400
Odysseus is lashed to the mast so that he can hear the _______ song without succumbing to it.
What is Sirens’?
400
At Athena’s behest, Zeus sends _______ to order the goddess to release Odysseus.
Who is Hermes?
400
Odysseus requests a song about the Trojan War of the minstrel, where the the nearly invinsible ______ lost his life.
Who is Achilles?
500
_______ is an ancient Greek word that means both guest and host.
What is Xenia?
500
Before Circe lets Odysseus go, she sends him to the _______.
What is the underworld?
500
Odysseus and his men escape danger, but, passing through the straits of Scylla and Charybdis, they lose ____ men to Scylla.
What is six?
500
Poseidon, angry over the injury Odysseus did to his ___, raises a storm and wrecks the raft.
What is son?
500
Odysseus and his men make their escape from the cave by clinging to the underbellies of the Cyclops’s _______.
What is sheep?