Odyssey Study Guide Flashcards
Odysseus’ home
Ithica
The phaeacian king who hosts Odysseus
Alcinous
The only god that didnt pity odysseus
Poseidon
The cyclops find it by odysseus
Polyphemus
The messenger of the gods also known as the giant killer
Hermes
The flower fruit that can make men forget their home
Lotus
Father of Odysseus
Laertes
Prominent suitor who is the arch-enemy of telemachus
Eurymachus
Inprisionsd odysseus’s men in a pigsty before becoming his lover
Arce
Member of Odysseus’s crew who is encountered in the underworld
Elpenor
Young daughter of alcinous who is tall and beautiful as a goddess
Nausicaa
Sucked down salt water exposing her interior vortex then vomited it up seething over like a cauldron over a blazing fire
Charybdis
Odysseus had to be tied down to listen to their songs
Sirens
The god whose cattle was consumed by odysseus’ crew
Hyperion
Giants who pelted rocks down on the ships of Odysseus’ expedition
Laestrygonians
Person who claimed responsibility for the cyclops’ suffering
Nohbdy
Where Odysseus’ journey home began
Troy
Nymph, envied by the gods for living with a mortal, who delays Odysseus for seven years
Calypso
The kind animal cared for by Eumaeus
Pig
Herb with black roots and white blossom given to Odysseus by hermes
Moly
Goddess who protects and helps Odysseus
Athene
Creature with a dreadful bark, twelve feet, six scrawny necks and triple rows if fangs
Scylla
Father if zeus
Cronus
King of pylos; the Gerenian Charioteer visited by Telemachus
Nestor
Wife of Odysseus
Penelope
Husband of helen and host of Telemachus
Menelaus
Blind Theban prophet from whim Odysseus sought advice in hades
Teiresias
Gave Odysseus a leather bag containing the boisterous energies of wind
Aeolus
Beautiful wife of Menelaus
Helen
Relationship of Telemachus to Odysseus
Son
God who is cuckolded by his wife Aphrodite and Ares
Hephaestus
The people who were raided during Odysseus’ first stop on his return from the war
Cicones
Whom does Homer ask for help in telling his tale?
The muse
How long has Odysseus been gone?
20 years
What is Odysseus doing when we first meet him?
Telling his tale
Which god is most against Odysseus
Poseidon
Who is thw goddess that helps Odysseus?
Athena
Which god is sent to twll Calypso to release Odysseus?
Hermes
Where does Odysseus go after leaving Clypso?
Phaecians
Who is the king if the Phaecians?
Alcinous
What happens to the ken who ate the lotus?
They loose track if time and the desire to go home
Why does Odysseus call himself Nohbdy?
To trick the cyclops
What is the cyclops’s name?
Polyphemus
Who is the father of the Cyclopes?
Poseidon
Where does Circe live?
Aeaea
What does circe turn Odysseus’s into?
Animals
What does Hermes give Odysseus to protect him from Circe?
Magic Herbs
Whom does Odysseus seek in the underworld?
Tiresias
What are the sirens?
Deadly mermaids who sing sailers to their death
How do the men face and overcome the Sirens’ songs?
Put wax in their ears and tie Odysseus up
What is the Charybdis?
Big monster
What is Scylla?
Mostwr with 6 heads
What choice must Odysseus make?
Sacrifice six men or risk his whole crew
What happens as the ship passes between “a rock and a hard place”
Sux men were eaten
Who convinces the men to disobey Odysseus? Why?
Eurylochus
They were hungry
What is Helios’s threat to the gods?
He threats the gods to not have his cattle
What happens to Odysseus men when they try to eat the cattle?
They all die
Where does Odysseus swim to?
calypsos island
What dies Athena advise Odysseus to do?
To remain a secret until he has a plan to kill the suitors
Who is Odysseus’s faithful swineherd?
Eumaeus
Where does Telemachus go in search of news of his father?
Sparta
What does Eumaeus call Telemachus?
Master
How does Athena transform Odysseus
To an old beggar
What happens when Odysseus seed his dog?
The dog dies and Odysseus cries
What js Odysseus’s dog named?
Argus
How does Eurycleia recognize Odysseus?
His scars
Athena says the suitors will_____?
Die
What impossible task does Penelope propose for the suitors?
String Odysseus’s bow and shoot it clean through twelve arrows
Whom does Odysseus trust to help him defeat the suitors?
Telemachus and Eumaeus
How does Odysseus prove his true identity?
He knew the secret about the bed
Who does Odysseus kill first and
why?
Atonius hecause he was the ring leader
What happens to the disloyal maids?
They were killed
How does Athena help Odysseus win other penelope?
Gives him beauty
What was special about Penelope and Odysseus’ bed?
Built into an olive tree
