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Greek & Trojan War
Epic Literature
Monsters
Gods & Goddesses
Ithaca
100
A Greek hero who died from an arrow in his heel.
Who is Achilles
100
Known for being the blind author of The Iliad and The Odyssey
Who is Homer
100
The name of a one-eyed giant.
What is a Cyclops
100
the supreme god of the Greeks
Who is Zeus
100
the number of years Odysseus has been gone from Ithaca before his return.
What is 20
200
Her beauty launched 1000 ships
Who is Helen
200
Which came first, The Iliad or The Odyssey?
What is The Iliad
200
Polypheus' cry to his brothers
What is "Nobody has blinded me!"
200
the god of the sea
Who is Poseidon
200
the name of Odysseus and Penelope's son
Who is Telemachus
300
The number of years in which the battle took place
What is 10
300
All epics depict a battle between what two opposing forces?
What is good and evil.
300
A 3-headed monster that snatches and eats people as they sail by
What is Scylla
300
Odysseus' personal war-like goddess
Who is Athena
300
when Peneope says will marry another man
What is when she completes her weaving of the shroud
400
Odysseus' victorious idea
What is the Trojan horse
400
All epics begin in the middle of the action, known as in ________ ____.
What is in "medias res"
400
This monster killed all of Odysseus' men except for Odysseus.
Who is Charybdis.
400
god of wind
Who is Aeolia
400
his disguise when he returns
What is an old beggar man
500
He was the one to "steal" the Greek lady.
Who is Paris
500
Epics traditionally begin with an invocation to the _____________
What is the Muse
500
How the men escaped through the opened door.
What is under the bellies of sheep?
500
the lesson Odysseus learned from the gods
What is the gods are supreme
500
How Odysseus' servant recognized him
What is by his scar