Pre-Odyssey Background
Greek warrior who come up with the clever plan that help him win the Trojan War.
Who is Odysseus?
This young prince of Ithaca spends Book 1 watching helplessly as suitors devour his family's estate before deciding to take action.
Who is Telemachus?
This individual is attributed credit for both The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
the name Odysseus uses when the cyclops asks him his name.
Who is Nohbdy or Noone or Noman?
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?
To delay choosing a new husband in Book 2, Penelope trickily spent three years doing and undoing this--Be very specific!
What is weaving and unweaving Laertes' burial shroud?
The Greek island to which Odysseus strives to return after the Trojan War.
What is Ithaca?
Name of the enchantress/witch 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?
Sent by Zeus in Book 5, this messenger god flies to Calypso’s island on his golden sandals to command Odysseus’s release.
Who is Hermes?
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?
the place the enchantress/witch tells Odysseus he must go to if he wants to make it home alive.
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?
This arrogant ringleader of the suitors speaks out during the Book 2 assembly to publicly blame Penelope's trickery for their ongoing stay.
Who is Antinous?
The plant that Odysseus' men consume that we equated to an addictive drug.
What is the Lotus flower?
The three various monsters (not the cyclops) 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?
Central character in Homer's The Iliad who fought and killed Hector, the Trojan hero.
Who is Achilles?
This Phaeacian princess is the first person to offer food and clothing to Odysseus when he washes up on the shores of Scheria.
Who is Nausicaa?
The specific name and description of the creature that entraps Odysseus and his men inside his cave.
Who is Polyphemus and what is a cyclops-a giant with 1 eye?
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?