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Devices and Details
Facts about our Hero
Gods and Monsters
Supporting Cast
Lessons to be Learned
100
Two epics written by Homer.
Who are the Iliad and the Odyssey?
100
How long was Odysseus away from home?
What is 20 years
100
Name of the six headed monster
Who is Scylla?
100
The suitor that Odysseus kills first?
Who is Antinous?
100

A lesson to be learned from "Scylla & Charybdis"

What is sacrifice? What is submission to Gods? What is strong leadership?

200
“Odysseus, Laertes son” is an example of what lit device?
What is an epithet?
200
How Penelope knew Odysseus' identity
What is the description of his bed?
200
Polyphemus' father
Who is Poseidon?
200
Sea nymph who kept Odysseus for seven years.
Who is Calypso?
200

A lesson to be learned from "The Sirens"

What is trust?  What is temptation?

300
Think of a catch that fisherman haul in to a half-moon bay in a fine-meshed net from the whitecaps of the sea: how all are poured out on the sand, in throes for the salt sea, twitching their cold lives away in Helios' fiery air: so lay the suitors heaped on one another.
What is an epic simile?
300
Name of Odysseus' son
Who is Telemachus?
300
These monsters lure men to their deaths with their beautiful singing voices
Who are Sirens?
300
Blind prophet who Odysseus visited in the underworld
Who is Teiresias?
300

A cultural value to be learned from "Argos"

What is loyalty?

400
Traveling poets who orally passed down stories from generations to generations.
Who are rhapsodes?
400
Name Odysseus’ father
Who is Laertes?
400
The god who aided Odysseus the most upon his return.
Who is Athena?
400
One of Penelope's suitors that asks Odysseus for mercy.
Who is Eurymachus?
400

Lesson to be learned from "The Lotus Eaters".

What is strong leadership? What is temptation?

500
The poem begins with this
What is the invocation to the Muse?
500
Odysseus is the king of what land?
What is Ithaca?
500
Destroyed Odysseus' ship
Who is Zeus?
500
One of Odysseus' men that convince the group to eat Helios' cattle.
Who is Eurylochus?
500

Two cultural values present in "The Cyclops"

What is wit and xenia? [What is hubris? - also acceptable]