| Gods and Godesses | Monsters | All about Odysseus | Vocab | Ithaca |
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Who is Athena
The goddess that always looks out for Odysseus
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who is Charybdis
A giant whirlpool/ maelstrom
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What is 20 years
How long is Odysseus away from home?
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What is an epic
A long poem, typically derived from oral tradition
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Who are Scylla and Charybdis
These two characters live on either side of the Strait of Messina
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Who is Hermes
Delivers the message to Calypso that she should let Odysseus go home
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Who is cyclops
Who is Poseidon’s son?
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Who is Eurylochus
Who is Odysseus’s most loyal crew member?
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What is an epithet
This is a descriptive device that is used in place of a noun
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What is wind
Aeolus fills Odysseus' bag with this
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Who is hades
The god of the underworld
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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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What are lotus flower
What did Odysseus’s men eat that made the, no longer want to go home?
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What is Xenos
This Greek word means hospitality
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Who are Tieresias and Circe
These two people provide Odysseus with prophecies that tell his future
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Who is Poseidon
This god is out to get Odysseus to avenge his son's injury
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who is Calypso
The most beautiful goddess of all who kept Odyssesus for 7 years
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Who is Telemachus
Who was waiting in Ithaca for Odysseus?
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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 Teiresias have in common with author, Homer?
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Who is Helios
This god hears and sees everything
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Who is Circe
A witch that lives on the island of Aeaea
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What is sheep
What do Odysseus and his men dress up ass to trick the cyclops?
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What is a bard
A storyteller
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What are respect, loyalty, and hospitality
What are three important Greek values we have observed in The Odyssey?
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