Show:
Gods and Goddesses
Monsters
Important People/Places
Plot Points
Potpourri
100
God of the sea
Who is Poseidon?
100
Polyphemus lives on an island, in a cave. What is he?
What is a cyclops?
100
The author of The Odyssey
Who is Homer?
100
During his first 10 years away from home, Odysseus was fighting in this war.
What is the Trojan War?
100
Odysseus’ tragic flaw
What is hubris?
200
The goddess of wisdom and strategy
Who is Athena?
200
This enchantress turned Odysseus men into pigs.
Who is Circe?
200
Odysseus' father
Who is Laertes?
200
Amount of years Odysseus was kept away from home.
What is 20 years?
200
Definition of hubris.
What is excessive pride or self-confidence?
300
The messenger god
Who is Hermes?
300
Women whose songs bewitch sailors to their deaths.
Who are the Sirens?
300
The blind prophet of the underworld
Who is Tiresias?
300
Odysseus asks his men to do this to protect him from the sirens.
What is tie him to the mast?
300
The year the Odyssey was created
What is 800 BCE?
400
This god has a flock of sacred cows
Who is Helios, the sun god
400
A six-headed monster that snatches six men, one for each of her heads, whenever a ship sails by.
What is Scylla?
400
Odysseus' home
What is Ithaca?
400
The only person/people not loyal to Odysseus.
Who are Penelope's suitors?
400
Homer's handicap.
What is blindness?
500
This god punishes Odysseus' men for eating the sacred cows.
Who is Zeus?
500
Giant whirlpool that sucks things in and spits them out.
What is Charybdis?
500
The people who give Odysseus' men a fruit that makes them forget their yearning for home.
Who are the Lotus-Eaters?
500
This is Odysseus’ plan to escape Polyphemus.
What is calling himself "Nobody," making Polyphemus drink wine until he falls asleep, then stabbing him in the eye with a sharpened tree trunk?
500
This protects Odysseus from Circe’s magic.
What is a magical herb called "moly."