The Odyssey

Question 1

Polyphemus

Answer 1

Cyclops in the odyssey

Question 2

Laestrygonians

Answer 2

Cannibalistic giants

Question 3

Lotus-Eaters

Answer 3

Eats lotuses that resemble a drug. Once Odysseus’s crew eat a lotus they want to do nothing except eat them for the rest of their lives: Odysseus has to drag them back on to the boat

Question 4

Telemachus

Answer 4

Son of Odysseus. In the begining books he left ithica to try and find his father.

Question 5

Eumaeus

Answer 5

Odysseus’s swineherd and friend

Question 6

Penelope

Answer 6

Odysseus’s wife

Question 7

Eurycleia

Answer 7

Loyal maid and nurse of Odysseus. Recognizes him from his boar scar

Question 8

Anticleia

Answer 8

Wife of Laertes, mother to Odysseus, old queen of Ithica

Question 9

Elpenor

Answer 9

Odysseus’s crewmate who fell off the roof of Circe’s palace

Question 10

Eurylochus

Answer 10

Odysseus’s crewmate. Convinces the crew to eat Helios’s cattle

Question 11

Philoetius

Answer 11

Odysseus’s cowherd who remains loyal to him

Question 12

Melanthius

Answer 12

Disloyal swine herder. Taunts beggar odysseus

Question 13

Theoclymenus

Answer 13

Seer who told Telemachus Odysseus was already home in Ithica

Question 14

Antinous

Answer 14

Suitor who sets a trap to kill Telemachus. First suitor to be killed

Question 15

Eurymachus

Answer 15

Suitor who pleads for mercy, blaming Antinous for everything; Odysseus shoots him anyways

Question 16

Laertes

Answer 16

Odysseus’s father who appears in book 24

Question 17

Calypso

Answer 17

Nymph who holds Odysseus prisoner for several years, until Hermes comes to persuade her to let him go

Question 18

Proteus

Answer 18

Son of Poseidon, herder of the sea. Often referred to as “old man of the sea”. Captured by Menelaus to get truths out of him

Question 19

Circe

Answer 19

Witch-goddess who turns Odysseus’s crew into pigs. After getting help from Hermes, Odysseus and his crew stay with Circe for a year

Question 20

Greater Ajax (Odyssey)

Answer 20

In the underworld, he refuses to speak to Odysseus

Question 21

Achilles (Odyssey)

Answer 21

In the underworld, he asks Odysseus about his son, which Odysseus does not know anything about

Question 22

Agamemnon (Odyssey)

Answer 22

In the underworld, he warns Odysseus about returning to his wife

Question 23

Peisistratus

Answer 23

Son of Nestor; Accompanies Telemachus on his trip to Sparta/Menelaus to find his father

Question 24

Teiresias

Answer 24

Seer in the underworld who tells Odysseys how to return home

Question 25

Leda

Answer 25

Odysseus sees her in the underworld. Queen who Zeus, disguised as a swan, had kids with.

Question 26

Heracles (Odyssey)

Answer 26

Odysseus saw him in the underworld. Demi-God of heroic adventure

Question 27

Nestor (Odyssey)

Answer 27

King of Pylos and is a good speaker. Telemachus visits him to ask about his father’s whereabouts, but Nestor does not know

Question 28

Menelaus (Odyssey)

Answer 28

King of Sparta who tells Telemachus that Odysseus had been captured by Calypso

Question 29

Helen (Odyssey)

Answer 29

Queen of Sparta, offers Telemachus assistance in his quest for his father

Question 30

Alcinous

Answer 30

King of the Phaeacians who offers Odysseus safe travel back to Ithica.

Question 31

Arete

Answer 31

Queen of the Phaeacians. Nausicaa, Arete’s daughter, suggests he appeal to Arete for safe travel.

Question 32

Nausicaa

Answer 32

Finds Odysseus naked on the beach. Athena helps Odysseus persuade Nausicaa to help him