The Odyssey Books

Question 1

Odyssey Book 1

Answer 1

INVOCATION OF THE MUSE REMEMBER AGAMEMNON, Athena disguised as Mentes

Question 2

Odyssey Book 2

Answer 2

Assembly: Telemachus – Suitors REMEMBER AGAMEMNON, story of the weaving, portent by Halistherses,

Question 3

Odyssey Book 3

Answer 3

Telemachus with Nestor (Pylos) REMEMBER AGAMEMNON, Orestes=good example, account of Agamemnons death, Telemachos like his father in words

Question 4

Odyssey Book 4

Answer 4

Telemachus with Menelaus (Sparta): REMEMBER AGAMEMNON, old man of the sea story, death of Aias and Agamemnon, Telemachos looks like Odysseus

Question 5

Odyssey Book 5

Answer 5

CALYPSO AND ODYSSEUS, repitition of God’s convo in book 1, Odysseus has been in Ogygia for 7 years, Poseidon shipwrecks Odys.

Question 6

Odyssey Book 6

Answer 6

Scheria, Phaeacians: NAUSICAA, Athena comes to Nausicaa in dream, Odysseus supplicates Nausicaa while naked (WTF)

Question 7

Odyssey Book 7

Answer 7

Scheria, Phaeacians: Alcinous and Arete, Nausicaa offered to Odysseus, meets the parents

Question 8

Odyssey Book 8

Answer 8

Scheria, Phaeacians: Demodocus and games, sacrifices, Odysseus cries once, laughs, cries again, only the king notices,

Question 9

Odyssey Book 9

Answer 9

Scheria, Phaeacians (Odysseus’ travels): Ciconians; Lotus-eaters; Cyclops START OF THE TRAVELS, Odysseus is an idiot, tells Cyclops his name and home address at the end

Question 10

Odyssey Book 10

Answer 10

Scheria, Phaeacians (Odysseus’ travels): Aeolus; Laestrygones; Circe, Hermes helps with Circe, given mole(important for future stories),

Question 11

Odyssey Book 11

Answer 11

Scheria, Phaeacians (Odysseus’ travels): the Underworld, meet Teiresias, a lot of other people

Question 12

Odyssey Book 12

Answer 12

Scheria, Phaeacians (Odysseus’ travels): Sirens; Scylla and Charybdis; Calypso, THE FUCKING CATTLE

Question 13

Odyssey Book 13

Answer 13

Scheria’s departure; ITHAKA: Athene, Odysseus
[“Thanks to you, I’ll not SUFFER AS AGAMEMNON”AND“you go to swineherd; I’ll fetch Telemachus”], Odys. in Ithaka and Athena off for Telemachos

Question 14

Odyssey Book 14

Answer 14

ODYSSEUS MEETS EUMAIUS (swineherd),

Question 15

Odyssey Book 15

Answer 15

TELEMACHUS TRAVELS BACK TO ITHAKA, portent by Helen of Odys. return, find Theoclymenus (fugitive) gives another good portent, gets to Ithaka

Question 16

Odyssey Book 16

Answer 16

TELEMACHUS AND ODYSSEUS, yeah, reunited at Eumaios’s place

Question 17

Odyssey Book 17

Answer 17

Odysseus in the city; Melanthius, bad goatherd; Argos dog; Antinous’ violence, Penelope wants to meet Odysseus, later when suitors not murder him, Penelope is told of portents

Question 18

Odyssey Book 18

Answer 18

Odysseus fights Irus; Amphinomus as ‘prudent’ suitor; Eurymachus’ violence, Penelope asks for bride gifts, another footstool is thrown, try to warn Amphinomus to leave, he does not

Question 19

Odyssey Book 19

Answer 19

INTERVIEW BETWEEN ODYSSEUS AND PENELOPE, asks of Odys. companion and clothing of odysseus to prove knowing him, eurycleia recognition

Question 20

Odyssey Book 20

Answer 20

Philoitius, good oxherd; Ktesippus’ violence, (STOP THROWING THINGS AT ODYSSEUS), suitors give signs of insanity

Question 21

Odyssey Book 21

Answer 21

THE CONTEST OF THE BOW, Telemachos almost succeeds, bows out at last minute, Odys reveals self to goatherd and swineherd, strings bow

Question 22

Odyssey Book 22

Answer 22

ODYSSEUS’ REVENGE AGAINST THE SUITORS, shoots Antinoos first, just abject chaos, killing of slave women

Question 23

Odyssey Book 23

Answer 23

ODYSSEUS AND PENELOPE, she doesnt trust it (so fair), proves through knowledge of the bed

Question 24

Odyssey Book 24

Answer 24

ODYSSEUS AND LAERTES