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gods and goddesses
Odyssey Plot
Odyssey Characters
Literary Terms
Miscellaneous
100
Who is the goddess who helped Odysseus at Troy and who persuaded the gods to allow him to leave Calypso's island.
Athena
100
What is Odysseus did to try and get out going to the Trojan War?
He pretended he was mad by sowing salt into his fields. The Greeks put his infant son, Telemachus, in the way, and he had to give in.
100
Who is Odysseus' son and wife?
Telemachus and Penelope
100
What is excessive pride that (inevitably) angers the gods?
hubris
100
What are the countries that fought in the Trojan War?
Greece and Troy
200
Who is the minor goddess who kept Odysseus on her island for nine years?
Calypso
200
How does Odysseus lose the rest of his men?
They eat the forbidden cattle of Helios while Odysseus sleeps. As a result, Zeus strikes them dead with a thunderbolt.
200
Who is the head of the suitors?
Antinous
200
When Hermes first arrives at Calypso's island, he admires the bubbling brooks, and the green trees and frolicking animals. During this passage of the story, what literary device is most prominent?
imagery
200
What is an epic?
a long poem about a journey
300
Who is the goddess who turned Odysseus' men into pigs?
Circe
300
Why don't Odysseus' men want to leave the Land of the Lotus Eaters?
They eat the lotus fruit which is like a drug, and they do not remember their homes and they do not want to leave.
300
Who is the goddess of the thick ankles who offers Odysseus her veil?
Ino
300
What is literary device is apparent in this passage: "…all the sea was like a cauldron/ seething over intense fire, when the mixture/ suddenly heaves and rises."
Homeric Simile
300
Who is the father of Odysseus?
Laertes
400
Who is the father of Polyphemus and the god whose anger keeps Odysseus from getting home earlier?
Poseidon
400
Why won't the other Cyclopses help Polyphemus?
Odysseus told him his name was "No Man" so Polyphemus sounds crazy when he's calling out saying No Man has hurt him...
400
Who is the king and the daughter who hear of Odysseus' adventures before giving him a ship to sail back to Ithaca?
Alcinious & Nausicaa
400
What two literary devices are used in the following passage: “When rosy-fingered Dawn next shone forth upon gods and mortals,”?
an epithet and personification
400
Who is Elpenor and what does he ask Odysseus to do for him?
He sees Odysseus in Hades and asks him to bury his body and place his oar over his grave.
500
From whom was the gift of the most beautiful woman in the world offered to Paris (that was the start of the Trojan War)?
Aphrodite
500
What is the game that Penelope devises for the suitors to win her?
It is the same game that won Penelope for Odysseus. He must shoot an arrow through twelve axes.
500
Who is the blind prophet that Odysseus must see in the underworld, and what character tells him to be careful of his wife when he returns to Ithaca?
Tireseus and Agamemnon
500
Zeus' is the thunderbolt, Poseidon's is his trident, Hermes' are his winged shoes. In terms of literary terms, what are these?
symbols
500
What are the three sea creatures that Odysseus and his men have to sail by and how do they survive?
1. Sirens: Odysseus' men put wax in their ears to block out their songs. 2. Scylla: Odysseus has to sacrifice six men, allowing them to be eaten, in order to sail past swiftly. 3. Charybdis: Odysseus must have his ship hug the rocks (getting men eaten by Scylla) in order to avoid being sucked in by this whirlpool.