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The name of the hero of the epic
Who is Odysseus?
The name of the island the hero is from and is the ruler of
What is Ithaca?
The name of the supposed poet of the epic
Who is Homer?
The main mode of transport for the hero and his men
What is sailing?
The war that lasted a whole decade before the start of the Odyssey
What is the Trojan War?
The name of the epic poem that the Odyssey is the sequel to.
What is the Iliad?
The kind of creature that Polyphemus is.
What is a cyclops?
The name of the creatures that sung a seductive song while the hero was tied to the mast
The false name that the hero gives to Polyphemus.
What is Nohbdy?
The name of the blind prophet who the hero needs to hear speak about his way forward.
Who is Tiresias?
The goddess whom Prince Paris chose as the fairest in the event that led up to the decade-long war.
Who is Aphrodite?
The reason the rest of the hero's men are destroyed by Zeus's white-hot bolt of lightning.
What is eating Helios' cattle?
The mistake the hero makes on the ship as he and his men approach Scylla.
What is arming himself?
The name of the hero's wife.
Who is Penelope?
What King Alcinous wants in return for helping the hero back to his native land.
What is the hero's story since the war?
The name of the whirlpool that the hero's men are afraid of being devoured by.
What is Charybdis?
The two people the hero sees in the land of the dead before the blind prophet comes and drinks the blood.
Who is Elpenor and Anticlea?
The flaw in his character the hero displays after they escaped Polyphemus' cave.
What is boastfulness?
What the hero means when he says at the beginning of the poem, "But in my heart I never gave consent."
What is his general feelings towards his relationships with Circe and Calypso?
An explanation of these lines:
"O Father Zeus and gods in bliss forever, punish Odysseus' men! So overweening, now they have killed my peaceful kine, my joy at morning when I climbed the sky of stars, and evening, when I bore westward from heaven. Restitution or penalty they shall pay--and pay in full--or I go down forever to light the dead men in the underworld."
What is Lord Helios' angry threats and demands for Zeus regarding the proper punishment that ought to be dished out to the hero and his men for killing his cattle. Words that move Zeus to take action as Helios wishes.