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the odyssey
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what happened to the Minoan civilization in 1450 B.C | it collapsed rather suddenly due to an earthquake or an invasion |
| what is the greek word for city-state | polis |
| what is an epic | a long poem based off of myths from the greek and roman times |
| how did the trojan war start | a king decevied the gods to try to marry the king of sparta's wife to he could rule the kingdom he did but started a great war. |
| Helios | sun god "father curse odysseus for what he has done" |
| Poseidon | god of the sea |
| Althena | god of wisdom, skill, and war |
| zeus | king of the gods and the ruler of the heavens and lighting |
| polyphemus | son of poseidon he is a cyclopes |
| laertes | was odysseus father original ruler of Ithica |
| Telemachus | son of odysseus "father is that you" |
| Eumaeus | odysseus trusted friend who watched his dog and pigs |
| Penelope | odysseus wife also queen of Ithica |
| Odysseus | king of Ithica and main character in the odyssey |
| Argus | odysseus dog who stays loyal to him until he sees his master then he knows he can die |
| Tiresias | the blind profit |
| Circe | a goddess who turns odysseus men into pigs |
| Sirens | magical creatuers that take ships out to sea to eat the men |
| Aeolus | god of wind that gave odysseus the bag of wind |
| what did the giant ask his father to do to odysseus | late him never see home again and if he does it will be many dark years of trying to find his home and all of his crew will die |
| after twenty years, how does Odysseus finally get home | phaeacions take him home and leave him with bronze and gold |
| what are the souitors doing in his house | trying to get his wife to marry him so he can become the next king |
| Suitors | they are thing to get his wife penelope to marry them so they can become the next king |
| Charybdis | one of the twin sister of poseidon her form is a water pool |
| Scylla | the other half of the twin sister she take a form of a hydra |
| Calypso | a nymph who lives on an island she dated odysseus for seven years |
| Elpenor | was a solider in the trojan war when he was at circe he got drunk and climed on her roof and fell asleep but when he woke up he tried to get off but instead fell and died |
| what test does penelope use to choose a husband from among the suitors | who could get and arrow through the socket of an axe with out tuching the inside of it |
| why does odysseus go to the land of the dead | to seek the blind profit tiresias |
| what brings the spirits of the dead to odysseus | the smell of blood from the sheep that they killed |
| what does tiresias say the odysseys and his men must not do | the should not eat the cattle of the sun god |
| why does odysseus leave home | the trojan war |
| why does cyclops live alone in a cave | they have no muster no meeting and no trible ways |
| who does odysseus speek with in the land of the dead | his mother, tiresias the blind profit, and one of his fallen soilders Elpenor |
| what does odysseus wont more than anything else | to make it back home to ithica |
| what two aspects of the life of cylopes make odysseus think they are uncivilized | they live in their own cave in a mountain and have no tribal ways |
| how does eurylochus convinve odysseus men to kill helios cattle | he said they would kill the nobliest of cattle and make it a sacrifice to the gods |
| how did antinous treat odysseus | very mean |
| what reason does odysseus give for thaking revenge on the suitors | Odysseus said that the suitors thought that he would never come back and that they had taken over his home and try to steal his wife. |
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Carson Rokos
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