odyssey

Question 1

circe

Answer 1

lived on aeaea, turned odysseus’s men into swine when they came to her island, fell in love with odysseus when he made her vow at swordpoint to not harm him and she turned them back, detained odysseus for 1 year

Question 2

calypso

Answer 2

lived on ogygia, dauther of atlas, detained odysseus for 7 years after he was shipwrecked, zeus sent hermes to command her to led odysseus go

Question 3

eumaeus

Answer 3

loyal swineherd of odysseus, son of ctesius, was lured away as a child by his phoenician nurse to the ship of phoenician merchants and was sold as a slave to laertes, entertained odysseus when he was disguised as a beggar, aided him in disposing of the suitors

Question 4

philoetius

Answer 4

odysseus’s loyal cowherd, aided him in the battle that occurred when he returned to ithaca

Question 5

melanthius

Answer 5

son of dolius, unfaithful goatherd of odysseus (he associated himself with the suitors), he and melantho (his sister) were rude to odysseus when he returned, brought weapons to the suitors

Question 6

alcinous and arete

Answer 6

king and queen of scheria, hosted odysseus, parents to nausicaa, incurred poseidon’s wrath for hosting odysseus

Question 7

argus

Answer 7

odysseus’s dog that dies when he sees him return

Question 8

euryclea

Answer 8

nurse of odysseus, daughter of ops, bought by laertes for 20 oxen, recognizes odysseus by a scar on his leg he got hunting with his grandpappy autolycus

Question 9

antinous

Answer 9

rude leader of the suitors of penelope, first to be killed on odysseus’s return to ithaca

Question 10

eurymachus

Answer 10

most favored suitor of penelope, second to be killed by odysseus on his return

Question 11

telemachus

Answer 11

son of odysseus and penelope, goes looking for him, visited nestor at pylos and menelaus at sparta for help, athena helped to avoid getting ambushed by the suitors, married circe