The odyssey

Question 1

Telemachus

Answer 1

• odysseus’ son
• 15-17 yrs
• Penelope’s son
• Guided by Athena’s

Question 2

AThena

Answer 2

-Can change her form
-is called pallas
helps tele.
Daughter of zues

Question 3

Suitors

Answer 3

• arrogant
• Self indulgent
• Threatening
• Desperate for Pen.
• Forceful

Question 4

Aegisthus

Answer 4

Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon
-the lover of Clytemnestra
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Question 5

Agamemnon

Answer 5

• brother of Menelaus
• Agamemnon was murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus,
• upon his return from the war. He was later avenged by his son Orestes.

Question 6

Aphrodite

Answer 6

• Aphrodite is one goddess responsible for starting the Trojan War
• was the goddess of love, beauty and fertility.
• She was also a protectress of sailors.

Question 7

Helen

Answer 7

• married to King Menelaus of Sparta,
• ## was abducted by Prince Paris of Troy-Most beautiful in the world
• -resulting in the Trojan War when the Achaeans

Question 8

Hermes

Answer 8

• the messenger of the gods

- convinced Calypso to let him off of her island.

Question 9

judgement of Paris

Answer 9

events that led up to the Trojan War

Question 10

menelaus

Answer 10

• King of Sparta,
  -brother of Agamemnon,
  -husband of Helen
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Question 11

Mentor

Answer 11

• was the son of Alcimus

- friend of Odysseus

Question 12

Nestor

Answer 12

• son of Neleus

- king of Pylos

Question 13

Odysseus

Answer 13

he son of Laertes, the king of Ithaca, and Anticlea

• the husband of Penelope
• father of a child named Telemachus.

Question 14

Orestes

Answer 14

-slaying both Aegisthus and his own mother Clytemnestra

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Question 15

Penelope

Answer 15

• Mother of telemachus
  -Son of Odysseus
  Plagued by suiters

Question 16

Poseidon

Answer 16

• God of the sea
• despises Odysseus for blinding his son
• Cyclops Polyphemus, and constantly hampers his journey home and He sometimes helps Odysseus or permits Athena to do the same.
• Brother of Zeus
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Question 17

trojan war

Answer 17

• , the great war fought between the Greeks and the Trojans

- Greeks sailed to Troy in order to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of a Greek king.

Question 18

zues

Answer 18

-he supreme deity of the ancient Greek
-a son of Cronus and Rhea,
brother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Poseidon,
- father of a number of gods, demigods, and mortals; the god of the heavens