Week 13

Question 1

nostoi (returns)

Answer 1

epic about the return of the leaders from troy

Question 2

odyssey books 1-4

Answer 2

about the situation in ithaca with penelope’s suitors

Question 3

when do we meet odysseus

Answer 3

book 5 on ogygia with nymph calypso

Question 4

most important characteristic of odysseus

Answer 4

resourcefulness

Question 5

which god protects odysseus

Answer 5

athena

Question 6

cicones and the lotus eaters

Answer 6

right after troy they come to ismarus in thrace, sack the city and stay instead of leaving right away, neighboring cicones attack, sail and get blown to land of lotus eaters. Inhabitants drugged with lotus potion, odysseus makes his crew leave

Question 7

maron

Answer 7

spared cicone, priest of apollo, gifts them wine

Question 8

cyclopes

Answer 8

polyphemus traps them in his cave, eats 6, odysseus makes him drunk with maron wine, name nobody (outis), stake into eye, escapes on sheep, says real name, polyphemus prays to dad poseidon to curse him

Question 9

aeolus and the laestrygonians

Answer 9

island of aeolus, keeper of the winds, gives odysseus leather bag of winds, uses, then naps, men think the bag contains gold, open it and pushes back to aeolus island. aeolus won’t help anymore, they sail to land of the laestrygonians who sank and ate all ships except odysseus’

Question 10

home of circe

Answer 10

aeaea

Question 11

circe and the men

Answer 11

withc circe, daughter of sun, hospitable, then turns them into animals, odysseus goes to rescue and hermes gives him moly

Question 12

moly

Answer 12

black and white flower, antitodte to circe’s charms

Question 13

odysseus and circe

Answer 13

doesn’t turn into animals, they sleep together (immune man from her prophecy) , he won’t eat until she turns his men back, they live together for a year before men want to go home. she tells him to go to underworld to learn way home from tiresias

Question 14

circe and odysseus son

Answer 14

telegonus

Question 15

nekuia

Answer 15

book 11, they sail to end of western world, perform sacrifice, many ghosts come, tiresias tells them about disasters and ithaca. also speaks with troy heroes and his mother anticlea

Question 16

the sirens

Answer 16

winged creatures, mens ear with wax, tied himself to mast

Question 17

planctae, syclla and charbrydis

Answer 17

2 wandering rocks, avoided by sailing close to high cliffs = cave of sycalla, who got 6 of his men (lower = charbrydis)

Question 18

helius cattle

Answer 18

circe warned of island of thrinacia not to touch an animal, but they get detained for weeks, and men eat while odysseus is sleeping

Question 19

helius / zeus punishment

Answer 19

helius complains to zeus, zeus raised a storm and sent a thunderbolt when it set sail, all men drowned except for odysseus

Question 20

calypso

Answer 20

drifts to isle of ogygia, stays for 7 years, offer to make immortal, ordered to leave by hermes

Question 21

the phaeacians

Answer 21

poseidon shatters raft off of scheria, home of phaeacians found by princess nausicaa, queen arete entertained by his stories brings him back to ithaca

Question 22

suitors at ithaca

Answer 22

take advantage of his xenia, penelope tricks by weaving and unweaving burial garment for laertes for 3 years

Question 23

eumaeus

Answer 23

faithful old swineherd, and reveals identity to son telemachus

Question 24

argus

Answer 24

old dog recognizes and dies

Question 25

odysseus/ suitors/ pennelope

Answer 25

insulted by suitors, reveals to penelope by brooch and description, she confides her plan of restringing his bow

Question 26

euryclea

Answer 26

old nurse, recognizes through scar on his thigh

Question 27

antinous

Answer 27

most annoying and leading suitor, shot after odysseus restrings bow