Odyssey

Question 1

Odysseus

Answer 1

King of Ithaca, husband of Penelope, father of Telemachus, former commander in Trojan War

Question 2

Telemachus

Answer 2

Odysseus and Penelope’s son. Helps his father with revenge

Question 3

Penelope

Answer 3

Odysseus wife, Telemachus mother, very loyal

Question 4

Athena

Answer 4

goddess that helps O and Telemachus, very good at disguises

Question 5

Mentes

Answer 5

Someone Athena disguises as, a fried of O’s father, laertes, ruler of Taphians

Question 6

Zeus

Answer 6

King of gods, Punishes O when his crew eats Helios’s cattle, allows athena to he.p O and allows Poseidon to hurt him

Question 7

Laertes

Answer 7

O father, lives in poverty on a farm. kills antnous’s father Eupeithes

Question 8

Anticleia

Answer 8

O mother, died because she missed her son

Question 9

Eurycleia

Answer 9

nurse, first to recognize O

Question 10

Calypso

Answer 10

goddess who falls in love with I and keeps him captive for 7 years on Ogygia

Question 11

Circe

Answer 11

which from Aeaea who turns O crew to pigs, does not turn O into pig because he took mol which made him immune to her spell. falls in love with O and warns O of sirens and Scylla

Question 12

Antinous

Answer 12

worst of all suitors, first to die, wants to murder T

Question 13

Eurymachus

Answer 13

very rude suitor, killed by O

Question 14

Eumaeus

Answer 14

loyal swineherd helps O defeat suitors, O talks to him in his house in woods, ex of prosperity to poor

Question 15

Nestor

Answer 15

King of Pylos, commander in the Trojan War, father of Pisistratus and polycaste

Question 16

Pisitratus

Answer 16

Nesor’s son, gives Telemachus food, drives the chariot group to Sparta

Question 17

Polycaste

Answer 17

Nestor’s daughter, bathes T

Question 18

Menelaus

Answer 18

king of sparta, commander in trojan war, Agamemnon’s bro, taken by wind and current to Egypt, had encounter with Proteus, father of Eidothea

Question 19

Helen

Answer 19

Menelaus;s wife, famous for beauty and pivotal role in TW

Question 20

Agamemnon

Answer 20

Menelaus’s bro, murdered by wife’s lover after came home from TW, father of Orestes, husband of Clytemnestra

Question 21

Clytemnestra

Answer 21

Agmemnon’s wife, disloyal and cheats, mother of Orestes

Question 22

Orestes

Answer 22

Agmemnon and Clytemnestra’s son, kills Aegisthus

Question 23

Aegisthus

Answer 23

Clytemnestra’s lover, Agamemnon’s murderer, killed by Orestes, ruled with Clytemnestra for 7 years

Question 24

Proteus

Answer 24

shape-shifting sea god, father of Eidothea, told Menelaus avbout where O is, also said something aboutAjax

Question 25

Ajax

Answer 25

trojan war warrior, killed by Poseidon

Question 26

Eidothea

Answer 26

Proteus's daughter, nymph who is in Menelaos's sherry to T about how he was stranded on an island. came up w/ plan to capture Proteus to discern an escape

Question 27

Mendon

Answer 27

heard in O's court, informs P of suitors plans to kill T

Question 28

Ino

Answer 28

goddess who helps I when drowning

Question 29

Alcinous

Answer 29

Phaecian king, helps O home

Question 30

Arte

Answer 30

queen of phaeacians, O first appealed to her

Question 31

Helios

Answer 31

sun god

Question 32

Lotus eaters

Answer 32

fed 3 ppl flowers, made them forget about going home

Question 33

Cicones

Answer 33

where O's men rampage for gold and kill the men

Question 34

Cyclopse

Answer 34

1 eyed monster

Question 35

Polyphemus

Answer 35

cyclops son of Poseidon

Question 36

Aeolus

Answer 36

god of wind, helps O, gives bag on winds, crew opens bag and sent way off course

Question 37

Laestrygonians

Answer 37

giant cannibals, destroy O's fleet

Question 38

Antiphates

Answer 38

king of Laestrygonians

Question 39

Eurylochus

Answer 39

very cautious, persuades rest of crew to kill cattle

Question 40

Tiresias

Answer 40

blind prophet, O meets in underword tells O not to kill cattle and what to do to please Poseidon

Question 41

Elpenor

Answer 41

member or crew, dies after falling off Circe's roof, O does not notice death until they meet in underworld

Question 42

Sirens

Answer 42

creatures disguised as beautiful women who's voices cause men to die. O and crew are first to survive going past them

Question 43

Scylla

Answer 43

Six headed monster who kills 6 members of crew, O was told to just let it take 6 men

Question 44

Theoclymenus

Answer 44

prophet who came to Ithaca with T, killed a man and begged T to take him , prophecy was about I;s return and the suitors death

Question 45

Amphinomus

Answer 45

one of few good suitors

Question 46

Melanthius

Answer 46

goat herder who is mean to O, gets tortured before dies

Question 47

Autolyces

Answer 47

O's grandfather, O gets scar when hunting with him

Question 48

Argos

Answer 48

O's hunting dog

Question 49

Arneaus

Answer 49

beggar who is run to O, challenges O to fight, KO in one punch

Question 50

Hermes

Answer 50

messenger god

Question 51

Phaecians

Answer 51

nice people

Question 52

Philoitios

Answer 52

cowherd, helps in battle with suitors.