Test 3 - The Odessy Flashcards
Itsy Bitsy Spider is closest to?
Sisyphus
Who gives you Moly?
The Lotus Eaters
Oldest Olympian according to Homer?
Hades
What are Scylla and Charybdis between?
Italy and Sicily
Who is NOT a judge of the underworld?
Koronis
The North Wind
Boreas
Who is Polyphemus’ mother, according to Homer?
Thoosa, a neried (salt water nymph)
Who is the sirens father according to Homer?
Achelous
What is the first feminist argument in western literature?
Calypso talking about how unfair it is that male gods can sleep with anyone/mortals and female gods cannot
In Calypso’s argument with Hermes she describes ___ as killing___ for having sex with ___
Artemis, Orion, Dawn
Who destroys Odysseus’s ship?
Zeus
Tiresias is the prophet of which god?
Apollo
How do you speak with the Shades in the Underworld?
Let them drink blood!
In Hades what is Agamemnon’s advice to Odysseus?
Don’t trust women (Incel)
Who tricks Thanatos and Persephone?
Sisyphus
His sons and daughters are married to each other:
Aeolus
Who is Spongebob?
Odysseus
Who is Patrick?
Eurylochus
Who is Neptune?
Zeus
Who is Mindy?
Athena (Minerva)
Who is Dennis?
Poseidon
A pointless and Tedious task is:
Sisyphean
Sirens and Mermaids share which trait?
The ability to sing
What is the river of forgetfulness in the underworld?
The River Lethe
In which underworld developed the idea of souls confessing their sins:
Aeneid, Vergil’s book of the dead
Book that introduced Reincarnation
Plato’s myth of Er
What first introduced the Nine Circles of Hell?
Dante’s Inferno
Which book was the author/narrator given a tour of the underworld by Sybil?
Aeneid, Vergil’s book of the dead
Aeolus gives Odysseus what as a parting gift?
Bag of Winds
What does Odysseus NOT do before sex with Circe?
Demands she release his men from her magic
Tiresias is a prophet in what city?
Thebes
Who is Odysseus’s mom?
Anticlea of Ithica
What is the river of grief in the underworld?
Acheron
What is the river of oaths in the underworld?
Styx
What is the river of tears in the underworld?
Cocytus
Who is the first person Odysseus speaks to in the underworld?
Elpenor
Odysseus gets help from who about sirens and Charybdis and Scylla?
Circe
Mermaids are descendants of who?
Atargatis
Who kills Aesclepius?
Zeus
The word mentor is associated with which god?
Athena (Minerva)
Who is Polyphemus’s mother?
Thoosa
Giants who like to nom on humans
The Laestrygonians
His island floats
Aeolus
Heroin addicts would feel right at home here:
The Island of the Lotus Eaters
Who helps Odysseus defeat Circe?
Hermes
Who are the first people to commit murder?
Danaids, killed their husbands
What does David Hasselhoff represent?
Fast black ship
Who was the first witch in Western literature?
Circe
Who was the first trans character in Western Literature?
Tiresias
Why was Tiresias transformed into a woman?
Hitting some screwing snakes with a staff
What is an Electra complex?
Female form of Oedipus complex. A woman who is sexually attracted to her father
What is the first court drama?
The third Orestia, Eumenides
How does Agamemnon die?
Stabbed by his wife Clytemnestra, because she is in love with Aegisthus
How does Clytemnestra die?
Killed by her son Orestes to avenge his father Agamemnon
