Odyssey Bonus Points Flashcards
Cicones
A trojan tribe where, In the Iliad, they were mentioned to join the side of the Trojans.
In the Odyssey, after the crewmates opened up a bag of winds, they landed near an island where the Cicones attacked them
Scylla
Six heading immortal monster that lived in a mountainous cave over a thin straight
Charybdis
Whirpool on the other side of Scylla’s cave. Sailors would avoid Charybdis, making it easier for Schylla to eat them
Demodocus
Blind bard who makes Odysseus cry by singing about troy
Aegisthus
Lover of Clytemnestra (wife of agamemnon)
Orestes
Agamemnon’s son who killed Clytemnestra when he returns home
Alcmene
Mother to Heracles by Zeus
Odysseus sees her in the underworld
Jocasta
Both mother and wife to Oedipus; once she finds out she kills herself
Odysseus sees her in the underworld
Who does Odysseus see in the underworld?
Alcmene, Jocasta, Ariadne, Minos, Orion, Tantalus, Sisyphus, Agamemnon, Achilles, and Great Ajax
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Ariadne
Immoral wife of wine God Dionysus. Helped slay the monitor by holding a ball of yarn
Minos
Posideon sends him a bull to become king, but refuses to sacrifice it. Posideon, in spite, has his wife fall in love with the bull
Orion
After boasting he will kill every animal on Earth, Gaia summons a scorpion to kill him
Tantalus
Killed his son to sacrafice to the gods. As punishment, the Gods put in the underworld, putting him in a pool with fruit overhead. Whenever he tries to drink the water it recedes, and whenever he tries to reach the fruit above it pulls away
Sisyphus
Forced to move the boulder uphill, but just as he reached the top, the boulder would roll back down