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Who am I?
Where in the world is Odysseus?
What's going on?
What am I and what do I do?
Motivation and The Blame Game
100
The hero and his goal
he's the hero and he wants to go home
100
Where Odysseus begins his journey
Troy
100
Odysseus' men did this to anger the Cicone army
raid the town, kill the men, eat their cattle
100
Posiedon's son
cyclops
100
Posiedon hates Odysseus for this reason
blinded his son
200
Odysseus' wife
Penelope
200
Country Odysseus is king of
Ithaca
200
Men get turned into this on Circe's island
Pigs
200
Gives Odysseus a plant to help resist Circe's power
Hermes
200
The reason Odysseus goes to see Tieresias
to get a prophecy about his journey
300
The name Odysseus give the Cyclops and his reason
Nohbdy, the other cyclops think nothing is wrong
300
Where Odysseus has been kept captive for 7 years.
Calypso's island
300
Odysseus and his men do this to escape from the cyclops
blind him and tie themselves to sheep
300
Singers that use song to lure men in and eat them
Sirens
300
This is why Odysseus chose to go near the Scylla and not Charybdis
better to lose 6 men than all, warned by Circe and Tieresias
400
Holds Odysseus captive for 7 years
Calypso
400
Odysseus has to journey here to find Tieresias
The Underworld
400
What Odysseus is doing when we first meet him in the story
crying for home
400
A 6 headed monster that eats 6 men as they pass
What is scylla
400
The sailors' reason for killing Helios' cattle
Starvation is worse than drowning, they will build him a temple and make sacrifice.
500
Gives Odysseus a bag of bad wind
Aeoluous
500
Odysseus is here while he is telling the story of his journey
The court of Alcinuous, Phaecia
500
These are three parts of Tieresias' prophesy for Odysseus
Posiedon will make things hard, don't eat Helios' cattle or they will all die, he alone will survive the journey, his home is filled with men trying to get his wife and home, the oar and sacrifce, long life, sea-death.
500
These are two things that the Charybdis does to sink ships
What are whirlpools and gysers
500
These are two examples of Odysseus blaming others for the bad things that happen.
Cicones, The Cattle and the Sun God, Aeoleus' Wind