Elements of the Epic
A long, narrative poem.
What is an Epic Poem?
The king of the gods; god of thunder and the skies; enforcer of the "hospitality rule"
Who is Zeus?
Odysseus was gone for _____________ years trying to return to Ithaca.
What is 10 years?
List TWO ways Odysseus tricked the cyclops.
What is telling him his name was Nohbdy?
What is getting him drunk with his strong wine so he could blind him?
Name the Trojan allies who Odysseus and his crew raid, rob, and kill.
Who are the Cicones?
What is TRUE ?
Name Odysseus' wife and son
Who is Penelope and Telemachus?
The plant that Odysseus' men were offered to consume that would cause them to want to stay and never return home.
What is the Lotus Flower?
Name of the enchantress who turns Odysseus' men into swine; holds Odysseus on her island for one year.
Who is Circe?
Who is Laertes?
Name two Epic Theme topics.
What is Courage?
What is Loyalty?
What is The Fate of a Nation?
What is Beauty?
What is Life and Death?
What is a Homecoming?
The believed author of both The Iliad and The Odyssey
Who is Homer?
The Greek island to which Odysseus strives to return after the Trojan War.
What is Ithaca?
The place the enchantress 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?
What is the Home of Death (Hades) and Pale Persephone?
The Circe tells Odysseus that it is better to lose ___ men than lose them all, and the ship too.
What is six of his men?
What is Includes Fantastic or Exotic Lands?
What is Involves more than one nation or culture?
The God of winds; gave Odysseus a special tool to help him and his men get back to Ithaca.
Who is Aelous?
The 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 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?
Odysseus' greatest heroic quality is his ________, whereas his greatest weaknesses is ___________.
What is his intelligence/craftiness/cleverness?
What is his arrogance/cockiness?
What is possesses superhuman strength, craftiness, and confidence?
What is they can be helped or harmed by Gods or Fate?
What is they embody qualities valued by the culture?
What is they overcome perilous situations?
The King in Scheria who welcomed Odysseus and gives a banquet in his honor. That night, he begs Odysseus to tell him who he is and what has happened to him.
Who is King Alcinous?
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?
Who is Anticlea?