The Odyssey

Question 0

What remote island was Odysseus on? Who was he with?

Answer 0

He was on Ogygia with Calypso

Question 1

Who is the red headed king?

Answer 1

Meneloas

Question 2

What goddess is helping Odysseus and Telemachus?

Answer 2

Athena

Question 3

what has been happening at Odysseus’s home now that he isn’t there?

Answer 3

Suitors are taking over and eating all their resources

Question 4

Odysseus is the son of_______________?

Answer 4

Laertes

Question 5

Who does Telemachus tell he is leaving?

Answer 5

His nurse Eurycleia

Question 6

Who is Antinoos?

Answer 6

One of the suitors. He is rude and arrogant Leads a campaign to kill Telemachus

Question 7

Eurymachus

Answer 7

A suitor who has influence over the others

Question 8

Amphinomus

Answer 8

A suitor. Probably the only nice one. Sometimes speaks up for the o and t

Question 9

Eumaeus

Answer 9

The Swineherd. Shelters Odysseus when he is in disguise. Very loyal to the family

Question 10

Eurycleia

Answer 10

Telemachus nurse, the one he told he was leaving.

Question 11

Melanthius

Answer 11

Gather who supports the suitors. Abuses Odysseus when he doesn’t know it’s him

Question 12

Melantho

Answer 12

Maidservant, having an affair with Eurymachus

Question 13

Calypso

Answer 13

Keeps o captive on her island for 7 years. Hermes persuades her to let him go

Question 14

Polyphemus

Answer 14

The giant who imprisoned o and his crew and tried to eat them. O pokes his eye out and angers Poseidon his dad

Question 15

Circe

Answer 15

transforms o and his crew to pigs. o becomes her lover for a year.

Question 16

Laertes

Answer 16

O dad.

Question 17

Tiresias

Answer 17

Theban prophet who helped o in the underworld

Question 18

Nestor

Answer 18

King of Pylos. T visits him to ask about O but he doesn’t know anything

Question 19

Menelaus

Answer 19

King of Sparta. brother of Agamemnon. Helps t

Question 20

Agamemnon

Answer 20

Former king of Mycanae. Murdered by his wife Clymenestra and her lover Aegisthus

Question 21

Nausicaa

Answer 21

Daughter of Alcinous and arête, found Odysseus on the beach at Scheria

Question 22

Alcinous

Answer 22

King of Phaeakians. Hears o’s story provides him safe passage to Ithaka

Question 23

Who is the King of Pylos?

Answer 23

Nestor

Question 24

Orestes

Answer 24

Son of Agamemnon, avenged him after he died

Question 25

Pisistratus

Answer 25

Son of Nestor, goes with t in search if news of his father to Sparta

Question 26

Who does Athena send to console Penelope?

Answer 26

Her sister Iphthime in phantom form

Question 27

Who is sent to convince Calypso to free Odysseus?

Answer 27

Hermes

Question 28

how long is Odysseus at sea before he spots Scheria?

Answer 28

18 days

Question 29

Who rescues o after Poseidon rages storm?

Answer 29

The goddess Ino

Question 30

Who finds Odysseus on the shore of a river?

Answer 30

Nausicaa

Question 31

Alcinous is the king of _________________

Answer 31

The Phaikians

Question 32

Demodocus

Answer 32

Blind bard who sings

Question 33

How does O escape from Ployphemus?

Answer 33

He gets him drunk and pokes his eye

Question 34

What places did o go to before calypso?

Answer 34

Ismarus/Cicones, Lotus eaters, Cyclopes, Aeolus, Aeolia, Laestrygonians, Aeaea and Circe, Cimmerians , Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Thrinacia,

Question 35

Who does Odysseus visit in the land of the dead

Answer 35

Tiresias his mom Anticleia, and other heroes and stuff, Agamemnon, Achilles, Ajax, Hercules, King Minos, Orion, Sisyphus, Tantalus,

Question 36

Theocylmenus

Answer 36

Famous prophets descendant who is fleeing cuz he murdered someone