The Odyssey Test study guide part 2 Flashcards
How the Trojan War began?
after the abduction (or elopement) of Queen Helen of Sparta by the Trojan prince Paris. Helen’s jilted husband Menelaus convinced his brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, to lead an expedition to retrieve her.
Who was involved on the Greek side of the Trojan War?
Agamemnon was joined by the Greek heroes Achilles, Odysseus, Nestor and Ajax
How the War came to an end
The Greeks won the war
The order of events in the Odyssey
1) End of Trojan war,
2) Odysseus and his men attack Cicons
3) Land of Lotus-Eaters
4) Odysseus stabs Cyclops’ eye out
5) Receive good wind and bad bag of wind
6) Odysseus loses all ships but 1 to Laestrygonians
7) Circe turns half of Odysseus’ crew into pigs
8) Journey to the Underworld
9) Pass by Scylla and Charybdis
10) Men eat Helios’ cattle
11) Odysseus loses all of his men
12) Odysseus washes up on Calypso’s island (stays for 7 yrs)
13) Hermes commands Calypso to let Odysseus go
14) Odysseus is taken in by king Alcinous where he tells his story
15) Odysseus arrives back in Ithaca
16) Argos Eurycleia recognizes Odysseus
17) Odysseus completes the trial of the archery and kills the suitors
Why events occur and what Homer might be saying about heroism-culture through those events
Goal- to get home to Ithaca and his wife Penelope.
to homer, the hero’s duty was to fight.
basic plot points of the epic
He recounts his trip to the Land of the Lotus Eaters, his battle with Polyphemus the Cyclops, his love affair with the witch-goddess Circe, his temptation by the deadly Sirens, his journey into Hades to consult the prophet Tiresias, and his fight with the sea monster Scylla.
