This son of Odysseus helps him defeat the suitors.
Who is Telemachus?
100
Penelope poses this challenge to the suitors if they want to marry her.
What is stringing the bow and shooting an arrow through 12 axe heads?
100
This enchantress finds Odysseus very "hot" and holds him for seven years. She then releases him and tells him about some unfortunate monsters to prepare for.
Who is Calypso?
200
This author of the poem was said to be blind. (No one really knows for sure.)
Who is Homer?
200
These women temptresses (sometimes portrayed as birds with the heads of women) lure sailors into their grasp with their beautiful voices. Oh my Zeus, they sound glorious! (They are also the logo for Starbucks.)
Who are the Sirens?
200
Odysseus' wife actually meets her husband while he is disguised as a beggar. She kind of likes him, which is quite ironic.
Who is Penelope?
200
The suitors don't do this when Odysseus "the beggar" enters the house. This custom was expected back in ancient Greek times upon entering someone's household.
What is feel welcomed/be fed and given drinks?
200
Odysseus learns that this negative trait can lead to horrible consequences, like not getting home for 20 years or having all your friends be killed.
What is hubris?
300
These "singers of tales" (i.e. Homer and others) would travel from place to place telling of stories all from memory, making the poem flow, and never writing the story down because paper was too expensive.
What is a rhapsode (rhapsody)?
300
This six-headed monster resides on a cliff-side cave and eats men whole. Odysseus heads to her first knowing that he will lose less men to this monster.
Who is Scylla?
300
This loyal friend of Odysseus reports back to his leader after he sees Circe has turned the rest of the crew into pigs.
Who is Eurylochus?
300
Penelope does this every day to help "buy" some time from deciding which suitor to marry. And every night she undoes what she's done that day.
What is weaved on a loom?
300
Odysseus tricks Polyphemus by telling him "My name is" this.
What is Nobody?
400
The mood of "The Odyssey" is said to be this type. Stop laughing.
What is serious?
400
This boiling, gnarly toothed whirlpool is the last monster Odysseus faces. He ends up losing all of his men to it as he clings to dear life on a branch.
Who is Charybdis?
400
This swineherd helps Odysseus and Telemachus battle the suitors at the end.
Who is Eumaeus?
400
Right before Odysseus slaughters the suitors, Telemachus proceeds to do this.
What is hide all the suitors' weapons?
400
Odysseus is taken back to Ithaca after telling his story to this group of people.
Who are the Phaeacians?
500
"The Odyssey" starts after the Trojan War meaning that Odysseus' story doesn't really start from the beginning, but instead starts using this Latin phrase.
What is "in media res"? ("in the middle of the action")
500
This Cyclops was blinded and then fooled by the clever Odysseus.
Who is Polyphemus?
500
The nurse/maid of Penelope recognizes Odysseus disguised as the old beggar because of the scar on his leg that he received years ago from a boar.
Who is Eurycleia?
500
This suitor is seen as the "bully" suitor. He mocks "the beggar", throws a stool at him, and acts like a downright jerk. He's also the first one to get an arrow through his neck.
Who is Antinous?
500
Odysseus tells his men not to eat Helios' cows on the island because otherwise Helios will punish the underworld by doing this.