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"Its crackling roots blazed and hissed - as a blacksmith plunges a glowing ax or adze in an ice-cold bath and the metal screeches steam and its temper hardens - that's the iron's strength - so the eye of Cyclops sizzled round that stake"
Homeric Simile (Odysseus compares the sizzling sound of the Cyclops' eye to that of sticking fire-hot metal in cold water.)
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The island he was trapped in for seven years
What is Calypsos Island
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Odysseus and Penelope's son
What is Telemachus
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Odysseus plan to escape from the Cyclops
Stab him in the eye and pass under his feet by hanging from the ewes.
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"Nohbdy's my meat, then, after I eat his friends. Others come first. There's a noble gift, now"
What is Polyphemus
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"Son of Laertes"
What is epithet
200
Some of Odysseus men ate this in an island which made them addicts and never wanted to return home
What is lotus flower
200
The first one to recognize Odysseus as a beggar
What is Argos, his faithful dog
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A six-headed monster that snatches six men, one for each of her heads, whenever a ship sails by. She lives in a cave opposite from the whirlpool, Charybdis...
Who is Scylla
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"Oh father Zeus and gods in bliss forever, punish Odysseus' men! So overweening now they have killed my peaceful kine, my joy at morning when I climb the sky of stars, and evening, when I bore westward from heaven"
What is Lord Helios (After Odysseus men kill and eat his immortal cattle)
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when Eumaeus talked to Odysseus when he was in raggs, "A hunter owned him, but the man is dead in some far place. If this hound could show the form he had when Lord Odysseus left him, going to Troy, you'd see him swift and strong."
What is irony (Eumaeus is talking about Odysseus being dead, but he doens't realize he's talking to him in that moment."
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They tied up Odysseus to the front of the boat because..
What is he wanted to hear the Sirens singing
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Odysseus plans to do with the suitors
What is kill them
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The monster they compare to a whirpool
What is Charybdis
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"Friends, have we never been in danger before this? More fearsome, is is it now, than when the Cyclops penned us in his cave?"
What is Odysseus
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"She made him taller, and massive, too, in curls like petals of wild hyacinth but all red-golden."
What is simile
400
Who gave Odysseus a bag full of stormy winds, which his men open in the middle of the sea making them go back to Aeolia.
What is Aeolus
400
What did the suitors want?
wants to marry Penelope, Odysseus' loyal wife.
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Odysseus passes by the their place and listens to their song while tied up
The Sirens
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"Oh Father Zeus and gods in bliss forever, you made me sleep away this day of mischief!"
What is Odysseus After he wakes up and sees his men killed the immortal cattle
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Referring to wolves and mountain lions- "they faced our men like hounds, who look up when their master comes with tidbits for them."
What is simile
500
the last stop before Odysseus gets to Ithaca
What is King Alcinous Court, Phaecia
500
The way Penelope knew that he was the real Odysseus
What is the description of their bed
500
A nymph who lives on Aeaea and changes Odysseus' crew into swine
What is Circe
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"Son of Laertes, versatile Odysseus, after these years with me, you still desire your old home?"
What is Calypso