The Odyssey

Question 1

Jones
Nostos

Answer 1

Odysseus has only one goal, to return home

Question 2

Jones
War

Answer 2

The Odyssey makes; the household, rather than the battlefield, the centre of the world

Question 3

Jones
Revenge

Answer 3

Whatever one may think of the severity of Odysseus’ revenge, no Greek would have argued that he did not have a right to take it

Question 4

Jones
Metis

Answer 4

Most important attribute is his metis

Question 5

Hall
Xenia

Answer 5

Xenia provides the structure for the entire epic

Question 6

Barker
Kleos

Answer 6

Odysseus achieves kleos by telling his own story which is unusual

Question 7

Kifaru
Kleos

Answer 7

Odysseus is constantly striving to prove himself as a great hero worthy of glory and fame

Question 8

Davenport
The Iliad vs The Odyssey

Answer 8

The Iliad is a poem about force; the Odyssey is a poem about the triumph of the mind over force

Question 9

Camps
The supernatural

Answer 9

Supernatural powers are at work everywhere and always in the Homeric poems

Question 10

Wilson
Women

Answer 10

The silencing of women’s voices and the dangers of female agency are central problems

Question 11

Bowra
The Suitors

Answer 11

A degenerate corruption of heroes

Question 12

Knights
Athene

Answer 12

Athene is the power behind the plot