Gods and Goddesses
The goddess who helps Odysseus throughout most of the story
Athena
Cyclops who kills six of Odysseus's men
Polyphemus
The person the suitors try to kill before Odysseus returns home
Telemachus
How the Odyssey starts (not where)
(hint: calling upon something else to help you)
Invocation to the muse
The disguise that Odysseus takes when he arrives in Ithaca
Beggar
The father of Polyphemus
Poseidon
Water nymphs who kill sailors by luring them with their beautiful voices
Sirens
Odysseus's creation that wins the Trojan War
Trojan Horse
Where the Odyssey begins chronologically
(hint: in the middle)
In media res
How Penelope is able to delay the marriage of the suitors
Weaving and unweaving on the loom
King of all the gods and goddesses
Zeus
What the Greeks believed was at the bottom of a whirlpool and one of the monsters that Odysseus and his crew must face
Charybdis
The most hospitable people on Odysseus's journey
Phoenicians
Name 2 traits of an epic hero
Brave, strong, descended from gods, reflects societal ideals, clever
Three obstacles Circe warns Odysseus about
Paris won Helen as a prize from which goddess
Aphrodite
A beautiful woman who refused the love of Glaucus and was turned into a six headed monster in return
Scylla
Author of the Odyssey
Homer
Hospitality (xenia), Loyalty, Cleverness (metis), Honor/pride (hubris)
God who helps Odysseus avoid Circe's spell
Hermes
Beasts on the island of Thrinacia who are not to be touched
Hyperion's cattle
Name Odysseus gives Polyphemus instead of his real name
Nobody
type of conflict in the odyssey (man vs. man, man vs. suprnatural, man vs. self, man vs. society, man vs. nature)
man vs. man or man vs. supernatural
Telemachus hides their weapons and Odysseus shoots them with a bow