Pre-Odyssey Background
Greek warrior who come up with the clever plan that help him win the Trojan War
Who is Odysseus?
By heaven! when she vomited, all the sea was like a caldron seething over intense fire, when the mixture suddenly heaves and rises.
What is an epic simile?
the most likely author of both The Iliad and The Odyssey
Who is Homer?
the name Odysseus uses when the cyclops asks him his name
Who is Nohbdy?
Odysseus was gone for _____________ years in total.
What is 20 years?
The prop used to trick the Trojans into thinking the Greeks have surrendered and given them a peace offering.
What is the Trojan horse?
“When the young Dawn with fingertips of rose
came in the east
What is a Homeric Epithet referring to the sun rise
What is Ithaca?
Name of the enchantress who turns Odysseus' men into swine; holds Odysseus on her island for one year
Who is Circe?
What Odysseus placed in their ears to avoid hearing the sirens
What is beeswax
Name of the god who holds a grudge against Odysseus for his clever plan to overthrow the city of Troy
Who is Poseidon?
God or man, no one could look on her in joy.
What is a Hyperbole?
the fallen goddess who falls in love with and holds Odysseus on her island for seven years until Zeus sends her a command to release him
Who is Calypso?
What is the Land of the Dead?
What is the Underworld?
King Aeolus gave Odysseus something that his men opened
What is a bag of stormy winds
Woman named the "face that launched a thousand ships"; often credited as the reason the Trojan War began
Who is Helen of Troy?
Eater of guests
Homeric Epithet for Polyphemus
What is the Lotus flower?
The three various monsters of the seas that Odysseus and his men face (all 3 in the order in which they appear)
Who are the Sirens?
Who is Scylla?
Who is Charybdis?
The number of legs and heads Scylla has
What is 12 and 6
Who is Achilles?
Master of landways and seaways,
What is a Homeric Epithet for Odysseus
The name of the cyclops that entraps Odysseus and his men inside his cave; the cyclops' father is the god Poseidon
Who is Polyphemus?
Threatens to take away the sun and shine it among the dead in the Underworld if the king of the gods does not punish Odysseus' men for eating his cattle
Who is Helios, the Sun God?
Odysseus sees this individual first when he gets to the Underworld. This is how the individual died.
Who is Elpenor and what is that he fell off the roof and broke his neck?