Odyssey Flashcards
Who were the important family members of Odysseus?
He was the great grandson of Hermes, his wife was Penelope. and his son was Telemachus
What was he the king of?
Ithaca, a Greek Island
What did he do in the Trojan war?
He fought in it all 10 years and was the inventor of the Trojan Hourse.
Odysseus begins his voyage home before he encountered multiple trials, what Island was he stuck on for 7 years?
Ogygia, with the nymph Calypso
Odysseus and his crew get stuck on an island and none of his crew want to leave, why?
They got high on special lotuses that makes them forget where they are, where they are going, and why they need to leave, so they only want to stay and eat more lotuses
what god hated Odysseus and caused him practically all his problems?
Poseidon
What Cyclopes did Odysseus face?
Polyphemus
Who was Polyphemus the son of?
Poseidon
What does Odysseus do to escape Polyphemus?
He gives him some wine so that he gets drunk and passes out after telling him his name is nobody and then stabs him in the eye. Once Polyphemus was blind he said nobody has hurt me to the other Cyclopes and they did not understand and Odysseus and his crew escaped under his herd of sheep.
They land at what home of wind?
Aeolia, where the king of wind Aeolus lives
what does Aeolus do for Odysseus and co.?
He gifts them a bag of wind.
Odysseus used the bag of wind to get himself to seeing distance of Ithaca but
his crew wanted to see what was in the bag and opened it fully letting lose a storm that pushed them far away from Ithaca
They next land on the Island of the
Laestrygonians, man-eating giants that chased them back onto their ships that destroyed every ship other than Odysseus’s
They next landed on
Aeaea where a sorceress named Circe lived turning all male people who land there into animals, she offered the men who went there special wine that turned them into pigs but one guy did not trust her, Eurylochus did not drink it and escaped and warned Odysseus and said they should escape
Odysseus decided (while in Aeaea)
Not to give up on his crew and was given something from Hermes to protect from her magic and he forced her to set his company free, she obliged and turned them back into humans