Characters
The main suitor (dies while minding his business, for once.)
Who is Antinous?
The six-headed dragon, kind of.
What is Scylla?
What Circe does to some of Odysseus' men.
What is turning them into pigs?
One of the ways Penelope tricks the suitors.
What is promising to marry once she's done weaving, and unweaving her work every night?
What is hiding in her room?
What is her final challenge with Odysseus' bow?
Another word for hospitality in the Odyssey.
What is xenia?
What Athena is the goddess of.
What is wisdom, strategy, and/or war?
The name of the Cyclops that Odysseus fights.
Who is Polyphemus?
Most of Odysseus' men are killed because of this decision.
What is killing Helios' cattle?
What Athena disguises Odysseus as when he returns home.
What is a old beggar?
Where Odysseus goes first after leaving Troy.
What is the Cyclops' island/Polyphemus?
The two goddesses that want to marry Odysseus.
Who are Circe and Calypso?
How Odysseus and his men blind the Cyclops.
What is sharpening a giant stake into a spear and stabbing him in the eye while he slept?
The reason for the Trojan War.
What is Paris stealing Helen from her husband, Menelaus?
Both parts of Penelope's final challenge to the suitors.
What is stringing Odysseus' bow and shooting through a dozen axes?
The reason Odysseus traveled to the Underworld.
What is to see his future/hear the Prophecy?
Who is Alcinous?
Odysseus had to do this to escape Scylla.
What is sacrifice six people to the six heads?
The length of time Odysseus is trapped on Calypso's island.
What is 7 years?
What Odysseus and Telemachus do so they have a better chance of killing the suitors.
What is stealing all the suitors' weapons and locking them in a room?
The meaning of Odysseus' name.
What is "Son of Pain"?
Tiresias is one of these.
What is a seer, a prophet, etc.?
The whirlpool monster. Yes, you have to say it correctly.
What is Charybdis?
Book 1 of the Odyssey starts this far into Odysseus' 20-year journey.
What is over 19 years/a couple of weeks before he gets home to Ithaca?
Penelope's task for Odysseus to prove it's really him after he kills the suitors.
What is moving their bed that is built around a tree? (literally can't be moved its in the ground)
The reason Odysseus is attached to his favorite bow that Penelope uses for her final challenge.
What is a gift from a childhood friend that passed away?