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Location
Character
Quotes (Describing who)
Quotes (Describing what actions)
Plot Events
100
The location of the Iliad
What is Ithaca?
100
The son of Laertes
Who is Odysseus?
100
"Low she sang in her beguiling voice, while on her loom she wove ambrosial fabric sheer and bright, by that craft known to the goddesses of heaven." Page 171
Who is Circe?
100
“I would not be so quick to accuse her, child. He sat and drank here while he had a mind to; food he no longer hungered for, he said— for she did ask him. When he thought of sleeping, she ordered them to make a bed. Poor soul! Poor gentleman! So humble and so miserable, he would accept no bed with rugs to lie on, but slept on sheepskins and a raw oxhide in the entry way. We covered him ourselves.” Who is being described?
Who is Odysseus?
100
Circe tells Odysseus to sail through the straits which are populated by.....
Who were Scylla and Charybdis
200
The landof Teiriseus
What is Fields of Asphodel?
200
Owner of the Sacred Cows
Who is Apollo?
200
‘Son of Laërtês and the gods of old, Odysseus, master of land ways and sea ways, why leave the blazing sun, O man of woe, to see the cold dead and the joyless region? 100 Stand clear, put up your sword; let me but taste of blood, I shall speak true.’ At this I stepped aside, and in the scabbard let my long sword ring home to the pommel silver, as he bent down to the sombre blood. Then spoke the prince of those with gift of speech: ‘Great captain, a fair wind and the honey lights of home are all you seek. But anguish lies ahead; the god who thunders on the land prepares it, not to be shaken from your track, implacable, 110 in rancor for the son whose eye you blinded. One narrow strait may take you through his blows: denial of yourself, restraint of shipmates. Page 188
Who is Teiresias?
200
And Odysseus took his time, turning the bow, tapping it, every inch, for borings that termites might have made while the master of the weapon was abroad. The suitors were now watching him, and some jested among themselves: “A bow lover!” “Dealer in old bows!” “Maybe he has one like it at home!” “Or has an itch to make one for himself.” “See how he handles it, the sly old buzzard!” And one disdainful suitor added this: “May his fortune grow an inch for every inch he bends it!” What is Odysseus doing?
What is the stringing of the bow?
200
Odysseus has a son, true or false
What is true?
300
Zeus lives here
What is Mount Olympus?
300
The principal suitor
Who was Antinoos?
300
"Take yourself out of this island, creeping thing- no law, no wisdom, lays it on me now to help a man the blessed gods detest- out! Your voyage hear was cursed by heaven!" Page 167
Who is Agamemnon?
300
“Dear honorable lady, wife of Odysseus Laërtiadês, let there be no postponement of the trial. Odysseus, who knows the shifts of combat, will be here: aye, he’ll be here long before one of these lads can stretch or string that bow or shoot to thread the iron!” Who says this?
Who is Odysseus?
300
The men are turned into pigs on whose island
Who is Circe
400
The place where the dead live
What are the Fields of Asphodel?
400
Called a prince, is a god, and tormented by Hera
Who is Heracles?
400
"So I, too, pined away, so doom befell me, not that the keen-eyed huntress with her shafts had marked me down and shot to kill me; not that illness overtook me- no trueillness wasting the body to undo the spirit; only my loneliness for you, Odysseus" Page 191
Who is Odysseus's mother?
400
‘My lady, the Akhaian troops will not easily make it home again full strength, unhurt, from Troy. They say the Trojans are fighters too; good lances and good bowmen, horsemen, charioteers—and those can be decisive when a battle hangs in doubt. So whether God will send me back, or whether I’ll be a captive there, I cannot tell. Here, then, you must attend to everything. 300 My parents in our house will be a care for you as they are now, or more, while I am gone. Wait for the beard to darken our boy’s cheek; then marry whom you will, and move away.’
What are the diffucties for the Akhian troops?
400
Antinoos strikes the first blow, true or false?
What is false?
500
The place where Elpenor dies
What is Circe island?
500
Allies of Odysseus at the final battle
Who were Eumaios and Telemakhos?
500
"At evening came the shepard withhis floc, his wooly flock. The rams as well, this time, entered the cave:by some sheep herding whim- or a god's bidding, none were left outside. He hefted his great bolder into place and sat him down to milk the bleating ewes in proper order, put the lambs to suck, and swiftly ran through all his evening chores" Page 155
Who is Polyphemus?
500
“Eur´ynomê, 200 it is a kind thought, but I will not hear it— to bathe and sleek with perfumed oil. No, no, the gods forever took my sheen away when my lord sailed for Troy in the decked ships. Only tell my Autonoë to come, and Hippodameía; they should be attending me in hall, if I appear there. I could not enter alone into that crowd of men.”
What is Penelopes refusal to answer the suitors?
500
Who does Odysseus try to raise from the dead?
Who is Teiresias