Epithets
"Lord of Noon"
Helios
Where do Odysseus' men lose hope of home?
The land of the lotus-eater's
Name of the whirlpool Odysseus narrowly avoids twice
Charybdis
God who has been upset with Odysseus and his crew since the end of The Cyclops
Poseidon
Credited with writing the Odyssey
Homer
"lord of the cloud"
Zeus
Why does Odysseus and his crew return to Circe's island?
To give Elpenor a proper burial
Blind prophet who warns Odysseus about eating Lord Helios' cattle
Tiresias
Who is Odysseus telling Part 1 to?
Alcinous
What is a prophet?
Someone who can see the future
Scylla's epithet
"Monster of the gray rock"
What does Polyphemus do at the end of "The Cyclops" that affects many future events in Part 1 of The Odyssey?
He begs his father, Poseidon, to curse Odysseus
Crewmate who died falling off a roof on Circe's island
Elpenor
Crewmate who convinces the rest of the men to eat Helios' cattle
Eurylochus
Where does Alcinous live?
Phaeacia
Morning/ the start of a new day
"rosy-fingered dawn"
Why do Odysseus' men decide to eat the cattle?
Famine is a more pitiful death than any
Gifts Odysseus and his men a bag of winds that gets them so close to Ithaca they can see it
Aeolus
Woman the Greeks sailed to Troy to retrieve
Helen
Where does Circe live?
Aeaea
Circe's epithet (from Sailing From Troy)
Circe of Aeaea
Where Odysseus loses all of his ships except for the one he's on
The land of the Laestrygonians
Who is Anticlea, and where do we see her?
Odysseus' mom, the Land of the Dead (Hades)
Odysseus' son
Telemachus
What does Odysseus compare the sight of his men being eaten by Scylla to?
A fisherman fishing and the fish on the end of the pole