The Odyssey

Question 1

Penelope

Answer 1

Wife of Odysseus
Mother of Telemachus
Hit on by Suitors

Question 2

Posiden

Answer 2

Zeus brother

God of all water

Question 3

Zeus

Answer 3

Zeus is king of Mount Olympus, the home of Greek gods, where he rules the world and imposes his will onto gods and mortals alike.

Question 4

Trojan War

Answer 4

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus

Question 5

Aegisthus

Answer 5

Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon.

Question 6

Agamemnon

Answer 6

He was the son (or grandson) of Atreus, king of Mycenae, and his wife Aërope and was the brother of Menelaus.

Question 7

Aphrodite

Answer 7

Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation

Question 8

Athena

Answer 8

She is goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, strategic warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill.

Question 9

Helen

Answer 9

Helen, was said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world, who was married to King Menelaus of Sparta, but was abducted by Prince Paris of Troy, resulting in the Trojan War when the Achaeans

Question 10

Hermes

Answer 10

God of the underworld;brother of Poseidon/Zeus

Question 11

Judgement of Paris

Answer 11

The Judgement of Paris is a story from Greek mythology, which was one of the events that led up to the Trojan War and to the foundation of Rome

Question 12

Menelaus

Answer 12

In Greek mythology, Menelaus was a king of Mycenaean Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, and the son of Atreus and Aerope

Question 13

Mentor

Answer 13

Mentor in Greek Mythology. In Greek mythology, Mentor was the son of Heracles and Asopis.

Question 14

Nestor

Answer 14

Nestor of Gerenia was the wise King of Pylos described in Homer’s Odyssey.

Question 15

Odysseus

Answer 15

Husband of Penelope and father of Telemachus, Odysseus is renowned for his intellectual brilliance, guile, and versatility

Question 16

Orestes

Answer 16

Orestes, in Greek mythology, son of Agamemnon

Question 17

Suitors

Answer 17

The Suitors. Well, the wife and son of Odysseus - Penelope and Telemachus, respectively - were busy fending off a group of ill-mannered, piggish men Homer refers to as the suitors. There are over a hundred of these guys appearing at the home of Penelope and Telemachus while Odysseus is gone.

Question 18

Telemachus

Answer 18

Telemachus, in Greek mythology, son of the Greek hero Odysseus and his wife, Penelope.