Odyssey Bonus Points Flashcards

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Cicones

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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

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Scylla

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Six heading immortal monster that lived in a mountainous cave over a thin straight

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Charybdis

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Whirpool on the other side of Scylla’s cave. Sailors would avoid Charybdis, making it easier for Schylla to eat them

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Demodocus

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Blind bard who makes Odysseus cry by singing about troy

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Aegisthus

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Lover of Clytemnestra (wife of agamemnon)

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Orestes

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Agamemnon’s son who killed Clytemnestra when he returns home

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Alcmene

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Mother to Heracles by Zeus

Odysseus sees her in the underworld

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Jocasta

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Both mother and wife to Oedipus; once she finds out she kills herself

Odysseus sees her in the underworld

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Who does Odysseus see in the underworld?

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Alcmene, Jocasta, Ariadne, Minos, Orion, Tantalus, Sisyphus, Agamemnon, Achilles, and Great Ajax

MAGA JA OATS

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Ariadne

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Immoral wife of wine God Dionysus. Helped slay the monitor by holding a ball of yarn

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Minos

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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

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Orion

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After boasting he will kill every animal on Earth, Gaia summons a scorpion to kill him

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Tantalus

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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

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Sisyphus

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Forced to move the boulder uphill, but just as he reached the top, the boulder would roll back down

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