The odyssey

Question 1

penelope

Answer 1

.wife of odysseus
.mother of telemachus
.Hit on by suitors

Question 2

menelaus

Answer 2

• king of sparta
• husband of helen of troy
• son of atreus and aerope

Question 3

aegisthus

Answer 3

• the lover of clytemnestrs

- son of thyresres nd pelopia

Question 4

agamemmon

Answer 4

-the son of king atreus

Question 5

helen

Answer 5

wife of menelaus

Question 6

hermes

Answer 6

messager

Question 7

athena

Answer 7

goddess of wisdom

Question 8

telemachus

Answer 8

-Odysseus’s son. An infant when Odysseus left for Troy, Telemachus is about twenty at the beginning of the story.

Question 9

odyseeus

Answer 9

0-year struggle to return home after the Trojan War. While Odysseus battles mystical creatures and faces the wrath of the gods, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus stave off suitors vying for Penelope’s hand and Ithaca’s throne long enough for Odysseus to return.

Question 10

poseidon

Answer 10

-god of sea

Question 11

zeus

Answer 11

-the head Greek god

Question 12

suitors

Answer 12

-these guys appearing at the home of Penelope and Telemachus while Odysseus is gone.

Question 13

orestes

Answer 13

• In the Odyssey, Orestes is held up as a favorable example to Telemachus, whose mother Penelope is plagued by suitors.

Question 14

trojan war

Answer 14

was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.

Question 15

mentor

Answer 15

• evolved to mean trusted advisor, friend, teacher and wise person.
• Mentor was a friend of Odysseus who placed him and Odysseus’ foster-brother Eumaeus in charge of his son Telemachus, and of Odysseus’ palace

Question 16

judgement of paris

Answer 16

a contest between the three most beautiful goddesses of Olympos–Aphrodite, Hera and Athena–for the prize of a golden apple addressed “To the Fairest.” and zeus was asked to mediate and he commanded Hermes to lead the three goddesses to Paris of Troy to decide the issue.

Question 17

nestor

Answer 17

King of Pylos and a former warrior in the Trojan War

Question 18

aphrodite

Answer 18

-one of goddess who is responsible for starting the Trojan War which is a war that Odysseus tries to come home from for 10 years