Odyssey

Question 1

Who were the important family members of Odysseus?

Answer 1

He was the great grandson of Hermes, his wife was Penelope. and his son was Telemachus

Question 2

What was he the king of?

Answer 2

Ithaca, a Greek Island

Question 3

What did he do in the Trojan war?

Answer 3

He fought in it all 10 years and was the inventor of the Trojan Hourse.

Question 4

Odysseus begins his voyage home before he encountered multiple trials, what Island was he stuck on for 7 years?

Answer 4

Ogygia, with the nymph Calypso

Question 5

Odysseus and his crew get stuck on an island and none of his crew want to leave, why?

Answer 5

They got high on special lotuses that makes them forget where they are, where they are going, and why they need to leave, so they only want to stay and eat more lotuses

Question 6

what god hated Odysseus and caused him practically all his problems?

Answer 6

Poseidon

Question 7

What Cyclopes did Odysseus face?

Answer 7

Polyphemus

Question 8

Who was Polyphemus the son of?

Answer 8

Poseidon

Question 9

What does Odysseus do to escape Polyphemus?

Answer 9

He gives him some wine so that he gets drunk and passes out after telling him his name is nobody and then stabs him in the eye. Once Polyphemus was blind he said nobody has hurt me to the other Cyclopes and they did not understand and Odysseus and his crew escaped under his herd of sheep.

Question 10

They land at what home of wind?

Answer 10

Aeolia, where the king of wind Aeolus lives

Question 11

what does Aeolus do for Odysseus and co.?

Answer 11

He gifts them a bag of wind.

Question 12

Odysseus used the bag of wind to get himself to seeing distance of Ithaca but

Answer 12

his crew wanted to see what was in the bag and opened it fully letting lose a storm that pushed them far away from Ithaca

Question 13

They next land on the Island of the

Answer 13

Laestrygonians, man-eating giants that chased them back onto their ships that destroyed every ship other than Odysseus’s

Question 14

They next landed on

Answer 14

Aeaea where a sorceress named Circe lived turning all male people who land there into animals, she offered the men who went there special wine that turned them into pigs but one guy did not trust her, Eurylochus did not drink it and escaped and warned Odysseus and said they should escape

Question 15

Odysseus decided (while in Aeaea)

Answer 15

Not to give up on his crew and was given something from Hermes to protect from her magic and he forced her to set his company free, she obliged and turned them back into humans

Question 16

After this they live at Aeaea for another year gaining wisdom from Circe until

Answer 16

Odysseus goes to the underworld and learns that Agamemnon has died along with his mother and was asked by a crewmate to bury his body

Question 17

They then leave to continue their Journey to Ithaca and run into what singing on the rocks?

Answer 17

The Sirens, who sing and lure sailors to their doom by using their enchanting looks and voices to make them fall in love with them, luckily none of the crew died and Odysseus was tied to the mast so he could still listen to their music.

Question 18

After escaping the Sirens they reach the

Answer 18

strait of Messina

Question 19

What made this strait dangerous?

Answer 19

on one side is Scylla the 6 headed monster and on the other is Charybdis, a whirlpool-like monster.

Question 20

How does Odysseus survive these 2 monsters of the strait

Answer 20

He goes around Charybdis and stayed as far from Scylla as possible but they get stuck in the current and 6 people are killed by Scylla

Question 21

Zeus sent a massive storm that pushed them into the nearest Island which Circe had warned them not to go to which was

Answer 21

Thrinacia

Question 22

This island had cattle that belonged to

Answer 22

Helios

Question 23

As they were stranded the crew became hungry while Odysseus went to pray to Zeus and ate one of the cows which led to

Answer 23

Helios requesting Zeus to fire thunderbolts at them and he did so they had to escape the island during the storm that was happening

Question 24

Due to the storm running hard they got pushed back, what happened due to this problem?

Answer 24

They got pulled into Charybdis’ and everyone got pulled into him as their ship fell in and Odysseus held onto a branch above them, barely escaping as the only one alive

Question 25

How did Odysseus escape his precarious situation above Charybdis’?

Answer 25

He waited for Charybdis’ to throw up some of the ship and then jumped to a piece from the wreckage and swam away, escaping

Question 26

Odysseus tells the Phaeacians his story once landing at their island and

Answer 26

Athena disguises him as a beggar and the Phaeacians smuggle him to Ithaca where he assesses the home situation in one of his servant’s room

Question 27

Telemachus after a search for his father,

Answer 27

Also goes to that hut and Odysseus reveals himself so then they made a plan to kill the suiters of his wife Penelope

Question 28

During an archery contest,

Answer 28

Odysseus wins and reveals himself and kills the leader of the suiters, Antinous and a fight breaks out leading to the death of all the suiters

Question 29

Afterwards he hangs 12 maids due to them

Answer 29

sleeping with the suiters

Question 30

The people are upset with Odysseus because ____________ but before a fight happens _____________

Answer 30

All their children died during his rule due to things like the Trojan War, his returning journey, etc.; Athena tells them to cut it out