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Book 1 and Terms
Book 9
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a daughter of Zeus that Homer, or the poet, addresses in the opening of The Odyssey.
Who is the Muse?
100
The island where Odysseus and his men are headed
What is Ithaca
100
a people who are cannibals and throw boulders at Odysseus' ships
Who are the Laestrygones
100
Who Odysseus is met by on the shore when he first returns to Ithaca
Who is Athena
100
The name of the second suitor to die
Who is Eurymachus
200
The thing that Homer asks for from the Muse.
What is inspiration.
200
The place where Odysseus and his men eat a plant and become content to stay there forever.
What is the land of the Lotus Eaters
200
The god who helps Odysseus outsmart Circe
Who is Hermes.
200
The name of the man who is the leader of the suitors
What is Antinous
200
The god that helps Odysseus kill the suitors
Who is Athena
300
a prayer given by the poet at the beginning of the Epic
What is an invocation
300
An epithet describing the dawn
What is dawn with fingertips of rose
300
Where Odysseus and his men go after leaving Circe's island
What is Hades, the land of the dead
300
The costume Odysseus wears when he comes to his home
What is a beggar
300
A word that best describes Penelope when she is first reunited with Odysseus
What is suspicious, aloof, hesitant
400
The person Odysseus is telling his story to at the beginning of the epic
Who is King Alcinous?
400
The cyclopes that traps Odysseus and his men in his cave.
Who is Polyphemus.
400
What the men put in their ears to keep from hearing the Sirens music.
What is beeswax
400
A case in which arrows are carried
What is a quiver
400
The thing one of the bedposts is made out of in Odysseus' room.
What is a tree trunk
500
an epithet that refers to Odysseus
What is Son of Laertes and the gods of old, master mariner and soldier.
500
The name Odysseus gives to the cyclops
What is Nohbdy
500
The name of the monster that ate some of Odysseus' men right before they get to Helios' island
Who is Scylla
500
The number of axe heads the suitors must shoot an arrow through to win Penelope's hand.
What is 12 axe heads
500
The gods that finally stop all the fighting and bloodshed
Who are Zeus and Athena