Odyssey Background Notes - Hafner - English 1

Question 1

Credit for the work is given to

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Homer

Question 2

Epic Poem

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Very long poem that follows the Hero’s Journey

Question 3

Epic Hero

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Protagonist in an epic poem

Question 4

Epic Hero in the Odyssey

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Odysseus

Question 5

Odyssey picks up after

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The Illiad

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Ex Dues Machina

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Divine intervention

Question 7

Epithat

Answer 7

A descriptive word or phrase added to someone’s name

Question 8

The Illiad covers

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Odysseus’ call to arms and the Trojan War. The events prior to the Odyssey

Question 9

Odyssey focuses on

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Odysseus’ journey back to Ithaca and arrival home

Question 10

The events in the story

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Do not follow a linear model

Question 11

Narration

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Shifts, POV shifts

Question 12

Most of the plot is revealed when

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Odysseus is telling his story to Arete & Alacous

Question 13

Odysseus

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King of Ithaca

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Penelope

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Queen of Ithaca

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Telemachus

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Odysseus’ son

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Athena

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goddess of wisdom & war, favors Odysseus, disguises herself at times

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Poseidon

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God of Sea and EQ’s

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Circe

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Sea nymph who can turn humans into animals

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Calypso

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Nymph who lives on the island of Osysia

Question 20

Zeus

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Main god

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Helios

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god of the sun, also called Hyperion

Question 22

Alcinues & Arete

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King and Queen of Phaincia

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Polyphemus

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cyclops, Poseidon’s son

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Teiresics

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A blind prophet

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Scyilla

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A monster

Question 26

Charybdis

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Living whirlpool