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God/Goddess
Facing Monsters
Overcoming Obstacles
Heroic Traits
Vocabulary Terms
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Odysseus's protector
Who is Athena
100
Sound sweet, but they'd like to eat you
Who is the Sirens
100
Specifically, why does Odysseus choose to take his men past Scylla? And what is the outcome?
What is Charybdis may either kill everyone or no one, whereas Scylla will definitely kill 6 men, so Odysseus elects to have 6 men killed to ensure the safety of the crew.
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Land of the Cicones: Tragic Hero/Hero? Why?
What is... Tragic hero: because his men are mutinous, Hero: because he refrains from the feasting/slaughter/rape of the Cicones.
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This extended device is used to compare two unalike things
What is Homeric simile
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Lover/Protector of cattle
Who is Helios
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Name the TWO "monsters" who prefer to live with animals rather than people
Who is Cyclops and Circe
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What three specific strategies does Odysseus use to get away from the Cyclops?
What is 1. gets Polyphemus drunk 2. stabs his eye 3. rides underneath his sheep out of the cave
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Calypso: Tragic Hero/Hero? Why?
What is... Tragic Hero: because he is unable to resist temptations, Hero: because he cries each day and eventually begs to be set free forgoing immortality.
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A long poem, typically derived from oral tradition
What is an epic
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Gives Odysseus a plant that weakens Circe's powers of seduction
Who is Hermes
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Six-headed, snakelike creature
Who is Scylla
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What does Odysseus turn down from Calypso in order to return home?
What is immortality
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Cyclops: Tragic Hero/Hero? Why?
What is... Tragic Hero: because Odysseus is over-confident and shares his true name, causing he and his men to be cursed. Hero: because he uses cunning strategies to defeat Polyphemus
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A descriptive device that is used in the place of a noun
What is an epithet/kenning
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Who is Amphitrite?
Who is Poseidon's wife. Goddess of the sea.
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Giant Whirlpool
What is Charybdis
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How does king Aeolus help Odysseus and his men?
What is gives him a bag of wind.
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The Sirens: Tragic Hero/Hero? Why?
What is... Tragic Hero: because he is so cocky he forces his men to tie him to the mast of the bot and not give him beeswax so that he may listen to the Sirens Hero: because he is able to withstand their seductive voices
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Define hubris
What is excessive self-confidence, cockiness
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Explain specifically two times Zeus intervenes within the story.
When is 1. Sending Hermes to save Odysseus from Calypso. 2. Killing all of Odysseus's men after they eat the Cattle of the Sun God.
500
Giant cannibals that throw rocks
Who is Laestrygonians
500
Specifically, what must Odysseus do to bring Teiresias up from the dead?
What is sacrifice a black lamb.
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Circe: Tragic Hero/Hero? Why?
What is... Tragic Hero: because he is tempted by Circe for a full year, feasting with her and once again cheating on his wife Hero: He says his men from permanently being swine, and eventually convinces Circe to free them
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Who is the author of this story? AND who does he ask to help him to tell the tale?
Who is Homer AND the Muse.