Odyssey + Homer

Question 1

Who is Odysseus

Answer 1

son of Laertes/protagonist/epic hero of story

Question 2

Who is Penelope

Answer 2

Wife of Odysseus

Question 3

Who is Telemachus

Answer 3

Loyal son of Odysseus

Question 4

Who is Laertes

Answer 4

Father of Odysseus/lives on a farm

Question 5

Who is Eurycleia

Answer 5

Head maid of house/very loyal

Question 6

Who is Anticleia

Answer 6

Mother of Odysseus/lives in the underworld

Question 7

Who is Eurylochus

Answer 7

One of Odysseus men he travels with/dies in a storm

Question 8

Who is Eumaeus

Answer 8

Odysseus’ very loyal swineherd (person who tends pigs)

Question 9

Who is Antinous

Answer 9

Sarcastic suitor- talks back to Telemachus, Odysseus shoots him with a bow and arrow when he returns home- leader of the suitors

Question 10

Who is Eurymachus

Answer 10

One of the suitors who bagged Odysseus when he came home to not kill them all

Question 11

Who is Amphinomus

Answer 11

Another suitor who Telemachus kills upon Odysseus return

Question 12

Who is Zeus

Answer 12

King of all the gods and goddesses

Question 13

Who is Poseidon

Answer 13

God of the sea and earthquake/doesn’t want Odysseus to get home

Question 14

Who is Athena

Answer 14

Goddess who helps Telemachus find Odysseus- daughter of Zeus

Question 15

Who is Mentes

Answer 15

an old friend of Odysseus. Athena disguises herself as Mentes in order to talk to Telemachus in front of the suitors in Book 1.

Question 16

Who is Hermes

Answer 16

God of trade, wealth, and luck

Question 17

Who is Persephone

Answer 17

Goddess of spring, queen of the underworld

Question 18

Who is Calypso

Answer 18

Odysseus is stuck on this Island with her and held captive for 7 years in book 5

Question 19

Who is Polyphemus

Answer 19

The Cyclops that Odysseus blinded in book 9

Question 20

Who is Ino

Answer 20

Gives Odysseus a magic scarf that keeps him a float when he reaches the first island in book 5

Question 21

Who is Circe

Answer 21

Lives on Aeaea and turn Odysseus men into pigs

Question 22

Who is Tiresias

Answer 22

A dead prophet who is blind- Odysseus is sent to the underworld by Circes to talk to Tiresias

Question 23

What are Sirens

Answer 23

Blackbirds with female heads that tempt the men with a song- use beeswax to not hear the song

Question 24

Who is Scylla

Answer 24

6 headed monster that Odysseus chooses to go through instead of Charybdis

Question 25

Who is Charybdis

Answer 25

Big whirlpool that Odysseus has to choose to not go through after talking to Circes

Question 26

Ithaca

Answer 26

Where they live

Question 27

Troy

Answer 27

Where the battle took place

Question 28

Ogygia Island

Answer 28

The island that Odysseus is held captive on for 7 years

Question 29

Sicily

Answer 29

island where Polyphemus lives

Question 30

Aeaea

Answer 30

island where Circes lives and turns Odysseus' men into pig

Question 31

House of Death/Underworld

Answer 31

Where Persephone lives and where Circes says Odysseus has to go on a final journey home

Question 32

Thrinacia

Answer 32

the island home of the Cattle of Helios

Question 33

Epic poem

Answer 33

Long narrative poems that tell the adventure of heroes who in some way embody the values of their civilization

Question 34

The Odyssey is that modle for a.......

Answer 34

Long journey

Question 35

Why were epic poems improvised on the spot

Answer 35

They were often told by people who couldn't read or write

Question 36

What are the characteristics of epic heroes

Answer 36

Protagonist, big deeds considered impossible by humans, travelers, warriors, battles foes

Question 37

Who is Homer

Answer 37

"The educator of all Greece" Thought to be a group of people, birth and time period are unknown, thought to be blind poet named Demodokos

Question 38

The Iliad

Answer 38

Prequel for the Odyssey, 10 year Trojan War, Trojan horse/battle strategy

Question 39

Where does the Odyssey start

Answer 39

"en middle res" in the middle of the story with his son Telemachus (20) who wants to marry his mother and is stuck in his home with suitors/wants his fathers support, 20 years without his father so far

Question 40

Where do the gods and goddess live

Answer 40

Mount Olympus

Question 41

What is a demi-god

Answer 41

One parent was god other was a mortal

Question 42

What are Achaeans

Answer 42

collective name for all Greek people, including citizens of Ithaca

Question 43

Timeline of Odyssey

Answer 43

1-8 start in the middle about one month before he returns home. 9-12 starts after Troy when all his men are still alive and leaving Troy. 13-24 start his homecoming on his own

Question 44

What is xenia

Answer 44

hospitality

Question 45

What is didactic

Answer 45

Lessons taught to Odysseus

Question 46

What is hubris

Answer 46

Self-confidence (The Cyclops' island)

Question 47

epic simile

Answer 47

detailed comparison in many lines length

Question 48

epic catalog

Answer 48

A list of people or things (book 11-person after person comes to visit him in the underworld)

Question 49

virtue/vice

Answer 49

good/bad traits

Question 50

What is an archetype

Answer 50

deep and complex recurring patterns that exist in mythology cultural story (stereotypes are flat) (setting = forest-dark/scary, character = villains, plot = heroes journey)