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Test 3 - The Odessy Flashcards

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1
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Itsy Bitsy Spider is closest to?

A

Sisyphus

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2
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Who gives you Moly?

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The Lotus Eaters

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3
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Oldest Olympian according to Homer?

A

Hades

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4
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What are Scylla and Charybdis between?

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Italy and Sicily

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5
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Who is NOT a judge of the underworld?

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Koronis

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The North Wind

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Boreas

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Who is Polyphemus’ mother, according to Homer?

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Thoosa, a neried (salt water nymph)

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Who is the sirens father according to Homer?

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Achelous

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9
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What is the first feminist argument in western literature?

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Calypso talking about how unfair it is that male gods can sleep with anyone/mortals and female gods cannot

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10
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In Calypso’s argument with Hermes she describes ___ as killing___ for having sex with ___

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Artemis, Orion, Dawn

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Who destroys Odysseus’s ship?

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Zeus

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12
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Tiresias is the prophet of which god?

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Apollo

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13
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How do you speak with the Shades in the Underworld?

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Let them drink blood!

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14
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In Hades what is Agamemnon’s advice to Odysseus?

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Don’t trust women (Incel)

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Who tricks Thanatos and Persephone?

A

Sisyphus

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His sons and daughters are married to each other:

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Aeolus

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17
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Who is Spongebob?

A

Odysseus

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18
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Who is Patrick?

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Eurylochus

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Who is Neptune?

A

Zeus

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20
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Who is Mindy?

A

Athena (Minerva)

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21
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Who is Dennis?

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Poseidon

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22
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A pointless and Tedious task is:

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Sisyphean

23
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Sirens and Mermaids share which trait?

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The ability to sing

24
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What is the river of forgetfulness in the underworld?

A

The River Lethe

25
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In which underworld developed the idea of souls confessing their sins:

A

Aeneid, Vergil’s book of the dead

26
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Book that introduced Reincarnation

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Plato’s myth of Er

27
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What first introduced the Nine Circles of Hell?

A

Dante’s Inferno

28
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Which book was the author/narrator given a tour of the underworld by Sybil?

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Aeneid, Vergil’s book of the dead

29
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Aeolus gives Odysseus what as a parting gift?

A

Bag of Winds

30
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What does Odysseus NOT do before sex with Circe?

A

Demands she release his men from her magic

31
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Tiresias is a prophet in what city?

A

Thebes

32
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Who is Odysseus’s mom?

A

Anticlea of Ithica

33
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What is the river of grief in the underworld?

A

Acheron

34
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What is the river of oaths in the underworld?

A

Styx

35
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What is the river of tears in the underworld?

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Cocytus

36
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Who is the first person Odysseus speaks to in the underworld?

A

Elpenor

37
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Odysseus gets help from who about sirens and Charybdis and Scylla?

A

Circe

38
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Mermaids are descendants of who?

A

Atargatis

39
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Who kills Aesclepius?

A

Zeus

40
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The word mentor is associated with which god?

A

Athena (Minerva)

41
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Who is Polyphemus’s mother?

A

Thoosa

42
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Giants who like to nom on humans

A

The Laestrygonians

43
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His island floats

A

Aeolus

44
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Heroin addicts would feel right at home here:

A

The Island of the Lotus Eaters

45
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Who helps Odysseus defeat Circe?

A

Hermes

46
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Who are the first people to commit murder?

A

Danaids, killed their husbands

47
Q

What does David Hasselhoff represent?

A

Fast black ship

48
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Who was the first witch in Western literature?

A

Circe

49
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Who was the first trans character in Western Literature?

A

Tiresias

50
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Why was Tiresias transformed into a woman?

A

Hitting some screwing snakes with a staff

51
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What is an Electra complex?

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Female form of Oedipus complex. A woman who is sexually attracted to her father

52
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What is the first court drama?

A

The third Orestia, Eumenides

53
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How does Agamemnon die?

A

Stabbed by his wife Clytemnestra, because she is in love with Aegisthus

54
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How does Clytemnestra die?

A

Killed by her son Orestes to avenge his father Agamemnon

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