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odyssey part 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| who is the Greek king who joins with Menelaus to wage war against Troy | Agamemnon |
| who is the hero in trouble? | Odysseus |
| to the Greeks, ______ were between mortals and gods | heroes |
| what is the tone | melancholy and disillisionment |
| what is the home of Odysseus | Ithaca |
| who is Odysseus's wife? | Penelope |
| Who is Odysseus's son | Telemachus |
| who thought of the Trojan Horse trick? | Odysseus |
| story starts with Telemachus searching for who? | his father, Odysseus |
| _____ years have gone by since Odysseus left home | 20 |
| what are the two quests? | Telemachus for his father and Odysseus for home and peace |
| what are stories that use fantasy to express ideas about life that cannot be expressed easily in realistic terms | myths |
| who is Odysseus's special protector? | a goddess named Athena |
| who is Poseidon? | god of the sea |
| Homer is said to have been blind | |
| originally these stories were _________ | oral tradition |
| stories had a particular _______ | rhyme or meter |
| what is a singer of tale? | a rhapsody (Homer was this) |
| Homer was part __________, _________, and __________ | historian, entertainer, and mythmaker |
| Athena is said to be _______ to Odysseus | an alter ego |
| home of Circe, the witch goddess | Aeaea |
| this is the king to whom Odysseus tells his story | King Alcinous |
| beautiful goddess nymph who keeps Odysseus on her island for 7 years | Calypso |
| female sea monster | Charybdis |
| peop;e who live in the SW coast of Thrace who battle Odysseus and his men | Circones |
| witch goddess who turns Odysseus's men into swine | Circe |
| one eyed monster | cyclops |
| dark area of the underworld where the dead reside | Erebus |
| one of Odysseus's loyal crew | Eurylochus |
| people who feed Odysseus's men with lotus plants to make them forget Ithaca | Lotus Eaters |
| island kingdom ruled by King Alcinous | Phaeacia |
| Cyclope blinded by Odysseus; son of Poseidon | Polyphemus |
| female monster with six serpent heads | Scylla |
| sea nymphs whose beautiful and mysterious music lures railors to steer their ships toward the rocks | Sirens |
| famous blind propher from the city of Thebes | Teiresias |
| island where Helios, the sun godm keeps his cattle | Thrinakia |
| one of Penelope's leading suitors | Antinous |
| servant, swineherd-one of Odysseus's loyal servants | Eemmaus |
| Odysseus' old nurse | Eurycleia |
| suitor of Penelope | Eurymachus |
| mother of Odysseus | Anticlea |
| companion of Odysseus -- falls off roof | Elpenor |
| friend of Odysseus | Mentes |
| Odysseus's faithful wife | Penelope |
| cowherd, Odysseus's loyal servant | Philoetus |
| odysseus's son | Telemachus |
| god of poetry, music, prophecy, medicine, and archery | Apollo |
| favorite daughter of Zeus; goddess of wisdom, the arts of war and peace; Pallas Athena is her other name | Athena |
| Titan (giant god) who ruled the universe until his son Zeus overthrew him | Cronus |
| sun god | Helios |
| god of metalworking | Hephaestus |
| messenger god | Hermes |
| god of the sea; brother of zeus; called earth shaker | Poseidon |
| most powerful god, home on Olympus | Zeus |
| the daughters of Zeus | Muses |
| prayers to Muse to help tell the story well | invocations |
| extended comparisons that compare heroic or epic events to simple and easily understandable everyday events | homeric and heroic similes |
| Athena prevents what? | an arrow from striking Menelaus |
| Both the Illiad and the Odyssey are written in what? | Dactylic hexameter |
| the sweet nymph | Calypso |
| what gave the gods immortality | nectar and ambrosia |
| part one is not the first story it is only the first story in which we meet _______ | Odysseus |
| the first stories are about | Telemachus |
| Odysseus is a guest at _______ | Alcinous Court |
| all guests were ______ | godsent |
| where was the first battle | Cicones |
| acted like what after the war | pirates |
| they eat _____ and lose their wills | Lotus plants |
| the Cyclops is being told where? | Alcinous Court |
| son of Altrues | Agamemnon |
| what is hospitality called? | Xenia |
| Odysseus lies and says his name is _____ | Nohbdy |
| uses what to blind Polyphemus | Olive branch |
| the olive branch is ironic because ______ | it is what Athena gave Athens in a contest with Poseidon |
| Polyphemus asks his father to _______ | keep Odysseus from getting home or make the trip horrible and let only him survive and when he gets home he finds lots of trouble |
| cunning intelligence | metis |
| violent might | bia |
| the Cyclopes is really a set of contrasts between | cunning intelligence and violent might |
| what is the first conflict | Odysseus against various monsters and bad guys |
| What is the second conflist | poseidon and athena |
| what does the conflict between Poseidon and Athena represnet | the Greek polarization of nature and culture |
| Odysseus goes back to | Circe's island |
| she tells how to avoid three dangers: | Sirens, Scylla and Charbdis |
| how do you avoid sirens | tie Odysseus to mast and plug ears of sailors with wac |
| how do you avoid Scylla and Charbdis | sail close to Scylle, but you will lose men |
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