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The amount of time Odysseus spends trying to get back home.
What is 20 years?
100
This goddess helps Odysseus more than any other.
Who is Athena?
100
Monsters that sing to sailors and lure them to their deaths.
What are Sirens?
100
The name of Odysseus's homeland.
What is Ithaca?
100
This appears at the very beginning of an epic poem. It is the poet's prayer asking for the god's help to tell a good story.
What is the invocation
200
He is the head suitor who is trying to get Odysseus's wife to marry him.
Who is Antinous?
200
This character curses Odysseus for blinding his son.
Who is Poseidon?
200
The name of the giant whirlpool monster.
What is Charybdis?
200
Where Odyssesus meets his mom and the prophet Tiresias.
What is Hades or the Land of the Dead?
200
He is the author of The Odyssey.
What is Homer?
300
The name of Odysseus dog.
What is Argus?
300
This character punishes Odysseus for his men eating Helios's sacred cattle.
Who is Zeus?
300
The six headed monster that eats several of Odyssesus's men
What is Scylla?
300
Where Odysseus men want to stay and continue to eat a certain plant.
What is the land of the Lotus Eaters?
300
This is the story that takes place before The Odyssey begins.
What is The Illiad?
400
What Penelope does to keep the suitors at bay for three years.
What is weaving a tapestry?
400
This character gives Odysseus a magical bag of winds to take him back home.
Who is Aeolus?
400
The method that Odysseus uses to escape from the cyclops's cave.
What is tying himself under a sheep?
400
Where Odysseus and his men first stop on their way home from the Trojan War. They rape and pillage here.
What is the coast of Cicones?
400
The point in time where the tale of an epic poem begins.
What is the middle?
500
Odysseus built his bed at Ithaca around this.
What is a living tree?
500
This character is referred to as "the lord of noon."
Who is Helios?
500
The name of the Cyclops.
What is Polyphemus?
500
The place of punishment in Greek Mythology.
What is Tartarus?
500
The name of a storytelling technique that includes groups of words that are used repetitively to describe characters.
What are verbal formulas?