Vocabulary
This word means an outward appearance or disguise.
What is Guise?
This goddess helps Odysseus by changing his appearance.
Who is Athena?
Eating this plant causes the men to lose their desire to return home.
What is the lotus?
Odysseus returns to his palace disguised as this kind of person.
What is a beggar?
Faithful dog that recognizes Odysseus.
Who is Argus?
This word means planned methods used to achieve a goal.
What is tactics?
This sea god becomes Odysseus’s enemy after Odysseus blinds his son.
Who is Poseidon?
Odysseus gives Polyphemus this false name to prevent the other Cyclopes from understanding his cries for help.
Who is Nobody?
This suitor insults Odysseus and throws a stool at him.
Who is Antinuous?
The loyal Swineherd and friends of Odysseus.
Who is Eumaeus?
This word means disbelief, like Telemachus’s reaction to his father’s transformation.
What is incredulity?
This crew angers this god by killing his sacred cattle.
Who is Helios?
Odysseus and his men hide beneath these animals to escape the cyclops cave.
What are sheep?
Odysseus tells Telemachus to remove these from the hall before confronting the suitors.
What are weapons?
Penelope uses this weaving trick to delay choosing a suitor.
What is weaving during the day and undoing the weaving at night?
This verb means to conceal your true feelings or intentions.
What is dissemble?
This god destroys the crew’s ship after the cattle are killed.
Who is Zeus?
Explain the two precautions that allow Odysseus to hear the Sirens while his crew continuous sailing safely.
What is the crew plugs its ears with wax and ties Odysseus to the mast.
The requirements of Penelope’s contest for the suitors.
What is “string Odysseus’s bow and shoot an arrow through twelve aligned axe heads.
Last test that Penelope uses to make sure this is Odysseus.
What is the bed test as the bed was built by Odysseus and is unmovable and only Odysseus and Penelope know of this?
These TWO WORDS mean “to seek punishment for a wrong” and “people fleeing danger or capture”.
What are avenge and fugitives?
Penelope wishes that Antinuous could be struck by this god’s bowshot.
Who is Apollo?
Explain why passing between Scylia and Charybdis creates a difficult choice.
What is choosing between one danger and another danger both terrible risks.
These TWO help Odysseus take back his home and plot against the suitors.
Who are Eumaeus and Telemachus?
His name is symbolic of being the villain and it means this. (Two part)
Who is Antinuous and what is Antagonist?