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Part 2 odyssey Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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2 Examples of dramatic irony

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1) when we know Odysseus is coming home but they don’t

2) when we know that Odysseus is the beggar but they don’t

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Themes of the Odyssey

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Hospitality, loyalty

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what is foreshadowing?

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when events/characters give hints to what’s going to happen later

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Example of foreshadowing

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Penelope’s dream

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Telemachus

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Son of Penelope and Odysseus; goes on journey to try and find it Odysseus

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Tieresias

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blind prophet that Odysseus sees in the land of the dead

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Syclla

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6 headed monster that prevents Odysseus from getting home

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Eurylochus

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Odysseus’ second in command

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Athena

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goddess that helps Odysseus throughout the story

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Poseidon

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god that hates Odysseus and prevents him from getting home

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Melanthius

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kicked Odysseus; brother of Melantho; wanted to kick out “the poor man”; rude to Odysseus

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Eurymachus

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threw chair at Odysseus; suitor; wants Penelope

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Penelope

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Odysseus wife/Telemachus mother; yelled at Melantho for being rude to the beggar; is holding a contest for her hand

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Laertes

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Odysseus’ dad who he goes to see and he doesn’t recognize him

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Circe

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pretty witch who turned Odysseus’ crew into pigs

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Charybdis

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whirlpool monster that Odysseus has to face coming home

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Lord Helios

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freaks out when Odysseus and his men stop at his island and eat is animals

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Zeus

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God that helps Odysseus get home

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Eumaeus

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told to tell the maids to lock themselves in their rooms; swarnhead

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Theoclymenus

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Prophet who interprets the omen of Penelope’s dream

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Antinous

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suitor who Odysseus kills first; rude to Odysseus throughout the story

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Eurycleia

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Nurse who notices Odysseus’ scar when he is the beggar

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Irus

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beggar that Odysseus got into a fight with

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Leodes

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suitor who Odysseus killed last

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Ajax

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War hero Odysseus encounters in the underworld

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Sirens

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Mermaids that sang and caused trouble at sea for Odysseus

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Amphinous

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suitor that gets killed by Telemachus

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Medon

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tells Penelope the suitors plan to kill Telemachus

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Melantho

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servant of Penelope; rude to the beggar; yelled at by Penelope; daughter of Dolius; sister of Melanthius

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Agamemnon

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got killed by wife; brother of Menelaus; former king of Myeenae

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Phemios

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poet who entertains the suitors

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Anticleia

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Odysseus’ mother who kills herself

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Eupithes

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Antinous’ father who tries to get revenge on Odysseus

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Ctesippus

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threw hoof at Odysseus

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the beggar

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Odysseus in disguise when he first gets back to Ithaca

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