Characters

Question 1

List the main Suitors and their attributes

Answer 1

Antinous (evil)
Eurymachus (sly)
Amphinomus (pitiful)

Question 2

List the royal family in Ithaca

Answer 2

Odysseus
Penelope
Telemachus
Laertes (father)
Anticlea (mother)

Question 3

List the main members of Odysseus’ crew

Answer 3

Eurylochus- main crew member, influences the men to eat the cattle
Elpenor- the one who died on Circe’s island
Perimedes

Question 4

Who did Odysseus meet in the Underworld?

Answer 4

Anticlea
Teiresias
Tyro, Epicaste, Chloris (The Wives)
Agamemnon, Achilles, Ajax, Heracles (The Heroes)

Question 5

Who’s punishments did Odysseus witness in the underworld?

Answer 5

Tityos
Tantalus
Sisyphus

Question 6

List the slaves

Answer 6

Eurycleia
Eumaeus
Philoetius
Eurynome
Melanthius
Melantho
Irus

Question 7

Who killed Agamemnon?

Answer 7

Clytemnestra and Aegisthus

Question 8

Who does Athene disguise herself as?

Answer 8

Mentes in Book 1
Dymas in Book 6

Question 9

List the Phaecians

Answer 9

Nausicaa
Alcinous
Arete
Laodamas (son)
Euryalus
Echeneus (Phaecian elder)

Question 10

Names of the bards

Answer 10

Demodocus (Phaecian)
Phemius (Ithaca)