The Odyssey

Question 1

Epithets

Answer 1

A descriptive word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing

Question 2

Epic similes

Answer 2

Compare heroic events in the story with common everyday events. Quite long, detailed comparison

Question 3

Epic style features two particular elements:

Answer 3

Epithets and epic similes

Question 4

In epic poetry the narrative starts:

Answer 4

In the middle of things

Question 5

Epics open with:

Answer 5

An invocation to the muse and statement of the theme

Question 6

Literary epics share

Answer 6

Hero national/cosmic importance
Settings of ample scale
Action involved superhuman deeds, dangerous journey, opposition of the gods
Epic poem is ceremonial performance

Question 7

What is an epic poem

Answer 7

A long verse narrative on a serious subject/ celebrating heroic achievements
Told in Formal elevated style
Centered on a hero whose actions depends the fate of human race, tribe nation

Question 8

Epic poem had catalogs of

Answer 8

Participants, sacrifices

Question 9

Epic poems frequently use

Answer 9

Epic similes and ephithets

Question 10

Patronymics

Answer 10

Calling son by father name

Question 11

Archetypes

Answer 11

Characters and situations recognizable across times and cultures
Brave hero, suitors contest
Evil temptress, loyal see vent

Question 12

Epic plot

Answer 12

Depicts a long strange journey filled with complications like strange creatures, divine intervention, treacherous weather, large scale events

Question 13

Epic themes

Answer 13

Reflect universal concerns

Courage, loyalty, beauty, the fate of a nation, life and death, a homecoming

Question 14

Epic setting

Answer 14

Includes fantastic or exotic lands, involves more than on nation or culture

Question 15

Helios

Answer 15

Sun God, raises his cattle on the island of thrinacia

Question 16

Zeus

Answer 16

The ruler of the Greek gods and goddesses, father of Athena and Apollo

Question 17

Telemachus

Answer 17

Odysseus son

Question 18

Penelope

Answer 18

Odysseus wide

Question 19

Alcinous

Answer 19

The king of the Phaeacians

Question 20

Circe

Answer 20

A goddess and enchantress who lives on the isaland of aeaea, turns men into pigs

Question 21

King Alcinous

Answer 21

Man who throws a babquet for Odysseus and asks him to tell who he is and what happened to him

Question 22

Elements of an epic hero

Answer 22

Main character hero-supernatural abilities or qualities, charged with a quest, tested, presence of mythical beings, human helpers and companions, travel takes him to supernatural world, low point, resurrection and restitution, regaining rightful place

Question 23

Cicones

Answer 23

Allies of Trojan, enemies of Odysseus

Odysseus robs and kills them but they kill 72 of Odysseus men

Question 24

Who gave Odysseus the wine

Answer 24

Euanthes son, Maron

Question 25

Who is Aeolus

Answer 25

Wind King

Question 26

Laestrygones

Answer 26

Land of cannibals hitting the fleet with boulders

Question 27

Who doesn't trust Circe and feared a snare

Answer 27

Eurylochus

Question 28

Who gives Odysseus the play moly to protect him from circes power

Answer 28

Hermes

Question 29

What prophet does Odysseus go to see in the land of the dead

Answer 29

The ghost of Tiresias

Question 30

What ghost does Odysseus meet of his crew

Answer 30

Elpenor

Question 31

Prince of Thebes

Answer 31

Tiresias the ghost prophet

Question 32

Charybdis

Answer 32

Whirl pool, would kill all his men instead of six

Question 33

Who disguises Odysseus

Answer 33

Athena

Question 34

Faithful swine herd who hides Telemachus

Answer 34

Eumaeus

Question 35

Suitors that are rude and demanding

Answer 35

Antonia and Eurymachus

Question 36

Most trusted servents

Answer 36

Eumaeus the swine herd And phileotius the cowherd They lock the door of the room

Question 37

Anti nous

Answer 37

First to die arrow in throat | Best in Ithaca

Question 38

Who was ringleader of the suitors

Answer 38

Antinous

Question 39

Who speaks out to Odysseus, blames everything on antinous and asks him to spare them and bribe him and who rallied the men

Answer 39

Eurymachus

Question 40

Who was killed by Telemachus spear throw

Answer 40

Amphinomus

Question 41

Eurynome

Answer 41

Female servant, bathed him before meeting Penelope

Question 42

Hephaestus

Answer 42

God of metal work

Question 43

Actoris

Answer 43

Odysseus own slave have seen the bed

Question 44

Allusion

Answer 44

An indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work

Question 45

Who is the swine herd

Answer 45

Eumaeus the swine herd

Question 46

Who was the cowherd

Answer 46

phileotius the cowherd