Odysseus

Question 1

Tiresias

Answer 1

A Theban prophet who inhabits the underworld

Question 2

Poseidon

Answer 2

a divine antagonist, effecting the main character’s journey home

Question 3

Scylla

Answer 3

a supernatural female creature, with 12 feet and six heads on long snaky necks, each head having a triple row of sharklike teeth, while her loins were girdled by the heads of baying dogs.

Question 4

Zeus

Answer 4

the weigher and middleman of all disputes.

Question 5

Calypso

Answer 5

she entertained the Greek hero Odysseus for seven years, but she could not overcome his longing for home even by promising him immortality.

Question 6

Charybdis

Answer 6

a dangerous whirlpool that swallowed down and belched back the ocean water several times a day, causing a danger for any passing ships.

Question 7

Apollo

Answer 7

stalwart guide and protector to the hero alongside Athena

Question 8

Odysseus

Answer 8

the husband of Queen Penelope and the father of Prince Telemachus

Question 9

Antinous

Answer 9

a violent and over-confident character ( suitor) who strives hard to take Odysseus’ throne

Question 10

Circe

Answer 10

a sorceress, who turned Odysseus men into pigs

Question 11

Penelope

Answer 11

wife to odysseus

Question 12

Athena

Answer 12

goddess who favors/assists Odysseus and his family

Question 13

Helios

Answer 13

a gentle god known to bring light onto the earth

Question 14

Telemachus

Answer 14

son of Odysseus and Penelope

Question 15

Persephone

Answer 15

Odysseus encounters her when he visits his dead mother

Question 16

P (0) lyphemus

Answer 16

cyclops

Question 17

Hermes

Answer 17

the messenger of the gods and the conductor of the dead to Hades.

Question 18

Alcinous

Answer 18

the king of Phaeacians, the guiding hand to which Odysseus can look up

Question 19

How the Trojan War began

Answer 19

after the abduction (or elopement) of Queen Helen of Sparta by the Trojan prince Paris.

Question 20

Who was involved on the Greek side of the Trojan War

Answer 20

Agamemnon was joined by the Greek heroes Achilles, Odysseus, Nestor and Ajax, and accompanied by a fleet of more than a thousand ships from throughout the Hellenic world.

Question 21

How the War came to an end

Answer 21

the Greeks retreated from camp and left behind a large wooden horse outside the gates of Troy.

Question 22

The order of events in The Odyssey

Answer 22

1
End of Trojan War

2
Odysseus and his men attack Cicons

3
Odysseus and crew forget about home (Lotus-Eaters)

4
Odysseus stabs out Cyclops’ eye

5
Receive bag of wind

6
Odysseus loses all of his ships but 1 to the 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

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 recognizes Odysseus

17
Eurycleia recognizes Odysseus

18
Odysseus completes the trial of the axes and kills the suitors