Odyssey Background

Question 0

What are the qualities of a hero?

Answer 0

Self sacrificing, questing, death, trials, hamartia, saves

Question 1

Name some epics besides the Odyssey?

Answer 1

Gilgamesh, Beowolf, Paradise lost, Aeneid

Question 2

What is another word for fatal flaw?

Answer 2

Hamartia

Question 3

What is typically in an epic?

Answer 3

Superhuman heroes, simile, invocations, digressions, legends/folklore, history, magic, eloquent speeches, perilous journeys, battles, underworld where somebody dies

Question 4

Who basically started the Trojan War? How?

Answer 4

Thetis, she didn’t invite Eris, the goddess of discord, to her wedding

Question 5

Who does Zeus ask to solve the dispute between the three goddesses?

Answer 5

Paris

Question 6

Who does Paris choose?

Answer 6

Aphrodite

Question 7

What heroes were gathered?

Answer 7

Achilles, Ajax, Odysseus, Menelaos, Aeneas, Agamemnon and Nestor

Question 8

What sides did the three goddesses take?

Answer 8

Aphrodite the Trojans, Hera and Athena the Achaeans

Question 9

Whose dad is a priest of Apollo?

Answer 9

Chyrseis

Question 10

Why does Achilles leave the battle?

Answer 10

Meneloas took his love, Bryseis