IAH221A - Odyssey

Question 1

Telemachos

Answer 1

Odysseus’s son, goes on journey to find out who his real father is.

Question 2

Penelope

Answer 2

Ody’s wife, has tons of suitors.

Question 3

Mentes

Answer 3

Athena takes form of Mentes and Mentor and shows up to emphasize theme of god as guest.

Question 4

Hermione

Answer 4

Daughter of Helen and Menelaus

Question 5

Aigisthos

Answer 5

Killed Atreus and Agamemnon.
-Idea of responsibility - gods not at fault, it’s the humans who are to blame.
Orestes kills him.
–What happens to a household when a husband is gone.
–Compared to suitors of Penelope

Question 6

Leartes

Answer 6

Father of Ody

Question 7

Phemios

Answer 7

Household bard in court of Ody

Question 8

Nausikaä

Answer 8

Daughter of Arete + Alkinoös

Question 9

Arete

Answer 9

Alkinoös’s wife/niece

Question 10

Alkinoös

Answer 10

King of the Phaecians (who only intermarry, so big thing that Ody might marry Nausikaä).

Question 11

Leukothea (Ino)

Answer 11

Sea goddess who helps Ody by telling him to remove Calypso’s cloak and gives him buoyant cloak instead.

Question 12

Elpenor

Answer 12

Ody’s man, falls of roof of Circe’s Palace, then is first ghost Ody sees in land of the dead.

Question 13

Epikaste

Answer 13

Jocasta - different ending to Oedipus where Creon does not reign because Oedipus not exiled…

Question 14

Teiresias

Answer 14

Prophet in land of dead who tells Ody how to get home.

• -Proteus for Menelaus.
• -Also tells Oedipus that he has killed his own father.

Question 15

Antikleia

Answer 15

Ody’s mom

Question 16

Sisyphos/Tantalos

Answer 16

In constant torture/punishment in the underworld.

Question 17

Minos

Answer 17

Judge of Sisyphos/Tantalos

Question 18

Kikonians

Answer 18

First group Ody encounters

Question 19

Lotus eaters

Answer 19

Their lotus causes eater to forget home and stay with them.

Question 20

Polyphemus

Answer 20

“Nobody trick”

Question 21

Aiolos Episode

Answer 21

God of winds - guest gift to Ody bottles winds against his voyage, men open it and send straight back to Aiolos.

Question 22

Laistrygonians

Answer 22

Huge people who live in land where night and day are close together.

Question 23

Circe

Answer 23

Magic/transformations
She transforms Ody’s men into pigs and herds them into her pen.
She sleeps with Ody
–Cattle - mene’s men as seals, ody’s men eat cattle of sun, ode’s men as pigs.

Question 24

Sirens

Answer 24

They sing/enchant, Ody listens

Question 25

Cattle of the Sun

Answer 25

Helios (sun god), Tiresias says not to eat them, all of Ody’s men die

Question 26

Ktimene

Answer 26

Sister of Ody

Question 27

Theoklymenos

Answer 27

Prophet in exile who is brought by Telemachos into Ody’s house.

Question 28

Eumaios

Answer 28

First of Ody’s household that Ody encounters - pig herder - loyal - kidnapped by his nurse as child.

Question 29

Eurykleia

Answer 29

Nurse, recognizes Ody’s scar when she bathes him - boar attacked him as child.

Question 30

Melanthios

Answer 30

Evil Suitor

Question 31

Argos

Answer 31

Dog, recognizes Ody, potential threat of discovery - dies as soon as he sees Ody.

Question 32

Melantho

Answer 32

Evil Nurse

Question 33

Outis

Answer 33

Nobody