Odyssey Background

Question 0

Omniscient

Answer 0

All knowing

Question 1

Qualities of an epic

Answer 1

1. Long, narrative poem
2. Told in third person, omniscient
3. Tells of adventure of heroes
4. Heroes embody the values of their culture.

Question 2

Famous epics

Answer 2

Gilgamesh 
Odyssey
Aeneid 
Beowulf
Paradise lost

Question 3

What is typically in an epic?

Answer 3

• superhuman heroes
• invocations
• digressions (side stories)
• similes (Homeric similes)
• legends and folklore
• history
• magic and the supernatural
• eloquent speeches
• perilous journeys
• battles
• underworld

Question 4

Odysseus known as..

Answer 4

Anthropos polytropos

which means ..

“man of many means”

Question 5

Attributes of a hero

Answer 5

• Self-sacrificial; sometimes dying for others
• Questing
• Trials (spiritual & physical)
• Fault (Hamartia)
• Death
• Saves

Question 6

What is Arete?

Answer 6

Arete is greatness through honor.

Question 7

Attributes of Arete

Answer 7

• Excellence
• Greatness
• Virtue
• Honor

Question 8

What is Kleos?

Answer 8

Fame, the award for Arete

Question 9

What is Akleos?

Answer 9

Without fame; infamy; obscurity

living a life without anyone knowing who you are
(being known for the wrong reason)

Question 10

What does Ilion mean?

Answer 10

Troy

Question 11

Gathering of Acheans; who does Menelaos gather?

Answer 11

Odysseus (acts crazy with plough)
Nestor 
Agamemnon
Achilles (disguised as a woman) 
Ajax

Question 12

Gathering of the Trojans

Answer 12

Priam
Hector
Paris
Aeneas

Question 13

How old is the odyssey

Answer 13

2,500 years old

Question 14

What are Rhapsodes?

Answer 14

People going from place to place telling stories.

Question 15

What is digression

Answer 15

Going off topic ; telling a story off topic

Question 16

What are Homeric Similies

Answer 16

A comparison that you don’t necessarily understand

Question 17

What is Hamartia ?

Answer 17

Known to Greeks as a fatal flaw; a characteristic that gets a hero into trouble

Question 18

Who is Priam?

Answer 18

King of Troy

Paris’ father

Question 19

How did the Trojan war start?

Answer 19

The goddess of chaos, Eris, wasn’t invited to a wedding. She got man and got a golden apple and wrote “to the fairest” on it and rolled it right between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. They began to fight over who is was for. They all went to Zeus to have him choose but Zeus handed the job over to Paris. The three goddesses bribed him.

Question 20

Who did Paris choose?

Answer 20

Paris chose Aphrodite

Question 21

How did the goddesses bribe Paris?

Answer 21

Hera - power over all men
Athena - strategic victories
Aphrodite - marry the most beautiful woman

Question 22

Paris’ prize for choosing Aphrodite?

Answer 22

Helen of Troy

Question 23

Who was the most mad?

Answer 23

Menelaos

Question 24

gods/goddesses on Trojan side

Answer 24

Aphrodite Apollo Ares Artemis

Question 25

Goddesses/gods on Achean sides

Answer 25

``` Athena Hera Poseidon Hermes Hephaestus Thetis ```

Question 26

Who did Agamemnon take?

Answer 26

Chryses

Question 27

What did Chryseis' father do?

Answer 27

Pleaded with Agamemnon to return his daughter. | Agamemnon refused.

Question 28

Who is Calchas?

Answer 28

A Achaean prophet who warns agamemnon that f he doesn't return Chryseis, then plague and disease will be brought to him and his people.

Question 29

Did Agamemnon give Chryseis back?

Answer 29

Yes, after the plague and disease had killed many people. | Agamemnon then takes Bryseis from Achilles

Question 30

What happens to Achilles when Agamemnon took Bryseis?

Answer 30

Achilles lost his Arete. And He refuses to fight pulling himself out of battle giving the Trojans power over the Achaeans

Question 31

Why does Agamemnon send Odysseus and Ajax to Axhilles?

Answer 31

``` To bribe him back into fighting. Agamemnon offers: Untouched Bryseis back Money Gifts Son-in-law ``` Achilles refuses.

Question 32

What did Achilles' mom (Thetis) do when Agamemnon lowered her sons Arete?

Answer 32

She went to Zues and pleaded that the Achaeans lose the war so they will pay for what Agamemnon did to Achilles. Zues is okay with it and let's Paris and Menelaos fight one v one.

Question 33

What happens when Paris and Menelaos fight?

Answer 33

Menelaos gets the better of Paris and Aphrodite pulls Paris out of battle.

Question 34

Who was embarrassed?

Answer 34

Helen

Question 35

What does Hector do when Paris was taken out of battle?

Answer 35

He asks Zues if he can torch the Achaean ships, Zeus says it's okay.

Question 36

What happens at the temple?

Answer 36

Achilles' dear friend Patroclus tries to convince him to fight. Achilles refuses, so Patroclus takes Achilles armor and tries to stop Hector. Patroclus ends up dying.

Question 37

Achilles kills Hector, and....

Answer 37

Ties him around his chariot and rides around the town for 12 days straight

Question 38

What is Achilles' fate?

Answer 38

He goes to chase after the other Trojans and kill them, but midway Paris shoots a poisened arrow at Achilles' heel.

Question 39

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Answer 39

Athena plants the idea of the Trojan horse inside Odysseus' head and he commands it to be built. The plan was that the Achaeans were going to "sail away" and they would leave one guy behind. Cassandra warns the Trojans. She dies. Plan goes as strategies. The Trojans party because they think they won. They get drunk. Helen figures out the horse is a trick. She tries to get the Achaens inside to reveal themselves, by imitating their wives. Almost worked but not.

Question 40

What happens to Laocoon and his sons?

Answer 40

Laocoon and his sons warn the Trojans, "beware of Greeks bearing gifts" Athena punishes him.

Question 41

No kills King Priam?

Answer 41

Achilles' son

Question 42

Troys fate?

Answer 42

Burns & Achaeans sail away.