Monsters
Gods
Odysseus' tale
Vocabulary/Literary Terms
Which way to Ithaca?
100
Witch goddess that lives on the island of Aeaea
Who is Circe?
100

The goddess who disguises herself as Mentes, Telemachus, and Mentor

Who is Athena?

100
After eating these fruits, Odysseus' men no longer wish to go home
What are the lotus flowers?
100

The definition of a metaphor

What is a comparison between two things that doesn't use like or as?

100

The monster with 6 heads and 12 legs

Who are Scylla?

200

The beautiful goddess of all who kept Odysseus for 7 years

Who is Calypso?

200
Delivers the message to Calypso that she should let Odysseus go home
Who is Hermes
200

This is one of Odysseus's disloyal crew members who encourages the men to eat the cattle of Helios

Who is Eurylochus?

200

A short phrase that is a descriptive device used to describe a place or person 

What is an epithet?

200
The cannibal people who destroy and eat all but one of Odysseus' ships

Who are the Laestrygonians?

300
Maidens with beautiful singing voices and cause men to steer their ships off course
Who are Sirens?
300
The god of the underworld
Who is Hades?
300

The youngest of Odysseus men who falls off of a roof and dies. 

Who is Elpenor?

300

This Greek word means hospitality

What is Xenia?

300

The person who provides Odysseus with a prophecy that tell his future.

Who is Tieresias?

400

Poseidon's son

Who is Polyphemus?

400

The god who crashed the Phaeacian ship after they sailed Odysseus home

Who is Poseidon?

400

He gives Odysseus a bag of wind

Who is Aeolus?

400
Homer uses this extended device to compare two unlike things
What is a Homeric simile?
400

Which immortals support Odysseus on his way home?

Who are Zeus, Athena, Hermes, Calypso, and Ino?

500

A giant whirlpool who swallows the water three times a day

Who is Charybdis?

500
God with the epithet "who marshals the thunderhead"

Who is Zeus?

500

The people that Odysseus' men plunder immediately after leaving Troy.

Who are the Cicones?

500

A warning or indication of a future event.

What is an foreshadowing?

500
How has Odysseus' relationship with the gods changed over time?

What is a shift from distrusting the gods and barely relying on them to giving them his complete trust.