Characters
Creatures whose music lures sailors to their doom
Sirens
City where Odysseus fought for 10 years
Troy
The lie Odysseus tells the Cyclops
"My name is Nohbdy"
A nickname describing some unique trait of a character or object
Epithet
Lonely nymph-goddess
Calypso
Land of addictive plants
Land of the Lotus Eaters
The path Odysseus takes (between Scylla and Charybdis) and why
Scylla; Odysseus will lose fewer men.
A comparison using "like" or "as" that is several lines in length
Epic simile
The messenger of the gods
Hermes
Home of Polyphemus
Island of the Cyclopes
Polyphemus's Curse on Odysseus
Odysseus will never return home.
Epithet
A blind prophet
Tiresias
Place where Odysseus sees his mother
Underworld
The choice that results in the deaths of Odysseus's men
Eating the cattle of the sun god
What 2 things are being compared?:
As a blacksmith plunges a glowing ax or adze
in an ice-cold bath and the metal screeches steam
and its temper hardens—that’s the iron’s strength--— so the eye of the Cyclops sizzled round that stake.
A blacksmith plunging an ax in water
Odysseus piercing the eye of Cyclops
The god of wind
Aeolus
Home of people who listen to Odysseus’ story
Land of the Pheaecians
One way in which Penelope demonstrates cleverness
1. Unweaving her shroud each night.
2. Testing Odysseus by asking him to move their bed.
What 2 things are being compared?
Then, like an expert singer skilled at lyre and song— who strains a string to a new peg with ease,
making the pliant sheep-gut fast at either end—
so with his virtuosos ease Odysseus strung his mighty bow.
A singer plucking the string of a lyre
Odysseus stringing his bow