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Greek Terms
Major Characters
Important Passages
Significant Concepts/Miscellaneous
Odysseus's Obstacles
100
This guest-host relationship was sanctioned by Zeus.
What is xenia?
100
Irresistable to women and goddesses alike.
Who is Odysseus?
100
Telemechus's initial public assertion of manhood.
What is Telemachus's speech to the assembly?
100
Penelope, Telemachus, Odysseus and Ithaca are suffering from this type of crisis.
What is identity?
100
She keeps Odysseus prisoner on her island.
Who is Calypso?
200
your reputation, what people say about you, pride and honor
What is kleos?
200
A momma's boy until Athena "lights a fire under him."
Who is Telemachus?
200
Odysseus realizes that he has achieved his kleos.
What is Demodocus's third song to the Phaeacian assembly?
200
Odysseus would not have been able to return to Ithaca without this ancient Greek practice.
What is xenia?
200
She has a strange hobby: turning men into pigs.
Who is Circe?
300
Odysseus demonstrated this character flaw when sailing away from the cyclopes' island.
What is hubris?
300
The loyal swineherder.
Who is Eumaeus?
300
Using his clever gift of rhetoric, Odysseus eases the mind of a young princess.
What is Odysseus's speech to Nausicaa?
300
Penelope used this trick to buy time with the suitors.
What is the weaving trick?
300
Son of Poseidon and eater of men.
Who is Polyphemus?
400
Odysseus's "resume."
What is the proem?
400
Odysseus's "fairy godmother."
Who is Athena?
400
She "proposes" to Odysseus without actually proposing.
What is Nausicaa's speech to Odysseus?
400
A most unfortunate character. Duh, don't pass out of the roof of a palace.
Who is Elpinor?
400
Odysseus's men untie the bag of winds because of this negative character trait.
What is greed?
500
Alas, Argus was the best of dogs.
What is pathos?
500
The most patient woman in the world. I mean, c'mon, 20 years???
Who is Penelope?
500
Kleos is a bunch of hooey!
What is Achille's speech to Odysseus in the underworld.
500
His current state reflects what is going on in Ithaca.
What is Argus?
500
Yeah, but can you string it?
What is the bow challenge?