Characters
The main character of The Odyssey; king of Ithaca.
Who is Odysseus?
Place where Odysseus is returning to.
What is Ithaca?
This Greek word means hospitality.
What is Xenos?
Cyclops that loses an eye to Odysseus.
Who is Polyphemus?
After eating the lotus plants, the men wanted to do this.
What is sat on the island forever and not leave?
The King of all Gods; God of Lightning.
Who is Zeus?
The place where one-eyed monsters live
What is the Cyclopes’ Island?
The type of story that The Odyssey is.
What is an epic?
A monster that lived on one side of a narrow channel of water.
Who is Scylla?
The men escape Polyphemus by doing this.
What is tricking Polyphemus and attaching themselves to the underbellies of the sheep?
Goddess of Wisdom; helps Odysseus when he gets back to Ithaca.
Who is Athena?
The place where Hade’s kingdom is.
What is the Underworld?
A ship devouring whirlpool lying next to Scylla.
What is Charybdis?
Witch goddesss that lives on the island of Aeaea.
Who is Circe?
The only god out of these to not be on Odysseus’ side: Zeus, Poseidon, Athena, Hercules.
Who is Poseidon?
Father of Zeus; King of Titans.
Who is Cronos?
The place where the Trojan War took place.
What is Troy?
A storyteller.
What is a bard?
Maidens with beautiful singing voices and cause men to steer their ships offf course.
Who are the Sirens?
Odysseus returns home disguised as this.
What is a beggar?
Only person other than Persephone and Odysseus who knows about their bed.
Who is Eurynome?
The land where Odysseus gets west wind from.
What is Aeolia?
Unwillingness or inability to believe.
What is incredubility?
The most beautiful goddess of all who kept Odysseus for 7 years.
Who is Calypso?
What is asking a question about the bed that Odysseus owns?