The Odyssey Flashcards
1
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Foil of Agamemnon
A
Odysseus
2
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Kills Aeigisthus
A
Orestes
3
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Bard of Scheria
A
Demodocus
4
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Father of Odysseus
A
Laertes
5
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The person who picks who get the Golden Apple
A
Paris
6
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Sees Odysseus in the underworld - tells to beware of his wife’s faithfulness
A
Agamemnon
7
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Keeps Odysseus captive for 7 years
A
Calypso
8
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The muse who tells Homer the story
A
Memory
9
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King of Laestrygonians
A
Antiphates
10
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Odysseus’ mom
A
Anticleia
11
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Kills Patroclus
A
Hector
12
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Where the Laestrygonians live
A
Lamus
13
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Queen of Scheria
A
Arete
14
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God who is angry at Odysseus’ crew
A
Helios
15
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The name Odysseus give to Cyclops
A
Noman
16
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Polyphemus’ dad
A
Poisedon
17
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Name of Cyclops that curses Odysseus
A
Polyphemus
18
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Foil of Orestes (Agamemnon’s son)
A
Telemachus
19
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Term for “Telemachus, son of Odysseus”
A
Patronymics
20
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King of Troy
A
Prium
21
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Where Odysseus is in Book 1
A
Ogygia
22
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Where Odysseus is in Book 9
A
Scheria
23
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Land of Circe
A
Aeaea
24
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Offers Odysseus immortality
A
Calypso
25
Menelaus' brother
Agamemnon
26
Crew member who defies Odysseus
Eurylochus
27
Sent to convince Calypso to let Odysseus go
Hermes
28
Herb to free Odysseus from Circes spell
Moly
29
He gives Odysseus advice to get through sirens
Tiresias
30
Winner of the Trojan War
Greeks
31
Requests a burial in Aeaea
Elpenor
32
Place that makes Odysseus lose all of his crew
Thrinacia
33
Punishes Odysseus' crew for eating his cattle
Helios
34
Wife of Agamemnon
Clytemnestra
35
Fortified city
Troy
36
Sing of the future
Sirens
37
Next to the Charybdis
Scylla
38
Intoxicating fruit
lotus
39
Blind prophet
Tiresias
40
Herb to free Odysseus from Circe's spell
Moly
41
Offers Odysseus immortality
Calypso
42
Falls off roof in Aeaea
Elpenor
43
Most prized Greek fighter
Achilles
44
The goddess who got the golden apple
Aphrodite
45
Chooses fame over a long life
Achilles
46
Where Odysseus is trying to get
Ithaca
47
Kills Hector
Achilles
48
People of Ismaros
Cicones
49
Name of the whirlpool near Scylla
Charybdis
50
God of the winds
Aeolus
51
Odysseus's son
Telemachus
52
Taken from Menelaus
Helen
53
Place where Helios keep cattle
Thrinacia
54
King of Ithaca
Odysseus
55
Will not talk to Odysseus in the Underworld
Ajax
56
King of all of Greece
Agamemnon
57
Place where Elpenor dies
Aeaea
58
Place where Odysseus sees Ajax
the Underworld
59
Odysseus' Wife
Penelope
60
Queen of the Gods
Hera
61
What Odysseus uses to win the war
Trojan horse
62
Term for what is used in italics in the book
Epic Simile
63
God who does not like Odysseus
Poisedon
64
Goddess who helps Odysseus
Athena
65
Greek word for Troy
Illion
66
King of Scheria
Alcinous
67
Term for "Odysseus, the cunning"
Epithet
68
Turns men to pigs
Circe
69
One-eyed giant
Cyclops
70
Land of Aeolus
Aeolia
71
Sing and make men crash into rocks
Sirens
72
Comes up with the Trojan horse idea
Odysseus
73
Six headed monster
Scylla
74
Odysseus' son
Telemachus
75
Another journey was when Odysseus gets stuck in Aeaea, home of ____________(person)
Circe
76
_________________’s home is Thrinacia.
Helios
77
______________ is the best Greek fighter
Achilles
78
Odysseus’ wife
Penelope
79
________________son of Laertes
Odysseus
Patronymics
80
Odyseus’ epithet
Godlike Odysseus
81
Odysseus is king of this place
Ithaca
82
Blind prophet who Odysseus seeks in the underworld
Tiresias
83
________________ who is the swineherd of Odysseus
Eumaeus
84
Goddess who lives in Ogygia
Calypso
85
Odysseus’ disguised as when he arrived in Ithaca
beggar
85
Antinous’ father
Eupeithes
86
Who picks who gets the golden apple
Paris, son of Prium, King of Troy
87
God who hates Odysseus
Poisedon
88
Who the Trojan War is being fought over
Helen
89
________________ son of Odysseus
Telemachus
Patronymics
90
Ignores Odysseus in the Underworld
Ajax
91
The suitor that gets killed first
Antinous
92
Where is the first place that Odysseus goes on his journey?
Ismarus
93
Name of the cyclops that keeps Odysseus captive
Polyphemus
94
False name that Odysseus gives the cyclops
Noman
95
Begs Odysseus to spare the suitors
Eurymachus
96
The nymph that keeps Odysseus captive
Calypso
97
________________ says she will marry a suitor once she is done making this
Penelope
A funeral shroud
98
Bard of Ithaca
Phemius
99
Material Odysseus’ bed is made of
Olive tree
100
Place Odysseus stays before heading to the palace
The swineherd, Eumaeus' house
101
Odysseus’ loyal cowherd
Philoetius
102
Kills Eupeithes
Laertes
103
King of Aeolia
Aeolus
104
God who hates Odysseus
Poisedon
105
Disloyal goatherd; kicks Odysseus (while he’s disguised as a beggar)
Melanthius
106
Odysseus’ nurse (recognizes Odysseus after washing his feet)
Eurycleia
107
God of all wind
Aeolus
108
Who is the first person Odysseus kills with his bow
The suitor Antinous
109
Who Paris gives the golden apple to
Aphrodite
110
Great Greek warrior who killed himself & won’t talk to Odysseus in the underworld
Ajax
111
Achilles’ epithet
the lion-hearted Achilles
112
Odysseus’ father
Laeteres
113
Names of the two suitors that held off the bow stringing on account of Apollo
Antinous and Eurymachus
114
Blind prophet that helped Odysseus in the underworld
Tiresias
115
Test that Penelope gives Odysseus to see if he was truly who he said he was
Tells him that they had to move his bed
116
The direction of wind left out of the bag to help get Odysseus back to Ithaca
West wind
117
The person who threw the stool at the beggar
Antinous, the suitor
118
The person who fell off of Circe's home
Elpenor
119
The fruit everyone was entranced by
Lotus
120
Odysseus’ epithet
Godlike Odysseus
121
Laestrygonian king
Antiphates
122
God of the underworld
Hades
123
The people who live on Ismaros
Cicones
124
The two monsters that represent a rock and hard place top joke 10/10
Scylla and Charybdis
125
Monsters that sing about the future
Sirens
126
Goddess of discord that starts the golden apple story
Eris
127
First suitor to try to string Odysseus’ bow
Leodes
soothsayer
128
Person who gets weapons for the suitors after Odysseus is revealed
Melanthius
129
First suitor to be killed
Antinous
130
Who leaves the storeroom door open after getting the weapons
Telemachus
131
Is happy when she sees the dead suitors in the underworld
Eurycleia
132
Odysseus´ dog
Argus
133
The name of one of the unfaithful maids
Melantho
134
First suitor to string the bow
Leodes
135
God of the sea
Poisedon
136
How long does Odysseus stay with calypso
7 years
137
Who kills Polyphemus
Odysseus and his men
138
Why does Poseidon hate Odysseus
- He blinded his son Polyphemus
- In the Trojan war, Odysseus fought for the Greeks while Poseidon favored the Trojans
139
Who kills Agamemnon
Aegithus
140
Medon
Herald, looked after Telemachus as a child
141
Who persuaded Odysseus not to kill them?
Medon, the herald, and Phemius the bard who sang songs
