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Who is Circe?
What is the name of the goddess that lives on the island of Aeaea?
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Who is Athena?
What is the name of the goddess that always looked out for Odysseus?
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What are the lotus flowers?
What is the name of the fruits that Odysseus' men ate and never wanted to go home?
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What is a bard?
What is a storyteller called?
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Who is Scylla and Charybdis?
These two characters live on either side of the Strait of Messina
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Who is Calypso?
What is the name of the goddess that kept Odysseus with her for 7 years?
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Who is Hermes?
What is the name of the God that convinced Calypso to let Odysseus go home?
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Who is Eurylochus?
What is one of the names of the people in Odysseus's loyal crew that accompanies him home?
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What is an epithet?
This is a descriptive word that is used in the place of a noun
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What is wind?
Aeolus fills Odysseus' bag with this
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Who are Sirens?
Maidens with beautiful singing voices and cause men to steer their ships off course
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Who is Hades?
What is the name of the God of the underworld?
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What is 20 years?
How long is Odysseus away from home?
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What is Xenos?
Which Greek word means hospitality?
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Who is Tiresias and Circe?
These two people provide Odysseus with prophecies that tell his future
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Who is Cyclops?
What is the name of Poseidn's son?
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Who is Poseidon?
What is the name of the God who was after Odysseus for his son's injury?
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Who is Penelope?
What is the name of Odysseus's wife?
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What is a Homeric simile?
Homer uses this extended device to compare two unlike things
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What is they are blind?
What does Tiresias have in common with author, Homer?
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Who is Charybdis?
What is the name of the giant whirlpool?
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Who is Helios?
What is the name of the God who heard/saw everything?
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Who is Telemachus?
What is the name of Odysseus's son?
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What is an epic?
What do you call a long poem, typically derived from oral tradition?
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What is respect, loyalty, and hospitality?
What are three important Greek values we have observed in The Odyssey?
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