The Odyssey chapter 1-5

Question 0

kleos

Answer 0

Greek, means renown or honour, it symbolizes what you hear about someone through another person.

Question 1

In media res

Answer 1

Latin “in the midst of things”,is the literary and artistic narrative technique of relating a story from the midpoint, rather than the beginning

Question 2

Achaens

Answer 2

An inhabitant of achaea, a greek.

Question 3

Antinous

Answer 3

One of Penelope’s suitors

Question 4

Calypso

Answer 4

A nymph,Daughter of Titan Atlas and lived on ogygia island

Question 5

Eurycleia

Answer 5

The women who nursed telemachos

Question 6

lacedaemon

Answer 6

mythical king of Laconia and son of the chief god zeus

Question 7

orestes

Answer 7

the son of clytemnestra and agamemnon

Question 8

telemachos

Answer 8

the son of odysseus

Question 9

nestor

Answer 9

the son of chloris and the king of pylos

Question 10

epic poem

Answer 10

lengthy narrative poem

Question 11

epithet

Answer 11

an adjective or phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned

Question 12

aegisthus

Answer 12

the son of Thyestes

Question 13

athena

Answer 13

the goddess of beauty and wisdom

Question 14

clytemnestra

Answer 14

ancient Greek legend, was the wife of Agamemnon, ruler of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Mycenae or Argos.

Question 15

helen

Answer 15

the most beautiful woman of Greece and the indirect cause of the Trojan War.

Question 16

menelaos

Answer 16

king of lacedaimon and brother of agamemnon

Question 17

penelope

Answer 17

mother of telemachos and wife of odysseus

Question 18

odysseus

Answer 18

father of Telemachus and husband of Penelope

Question 19

athene

Answer 19

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