Extra Flashcards The Odyssey

Phemius

The singer who sings about Troy

Antinous and Eurymachus talk to Telemachus nastily and try to find out who _____ was.

Athena

Orestes did what?

Came back and killed his mother, Clytemnestra (who killed Agamemnon) and Aegisthus (who killed Agamemnon)

Halitherses

Explains to a group of elite men that there is a prophecy that Odysseus is on his way home.

Leocritus

A suitor that resists the warnings that Odysseus is coming home.

Noemon (two dots above e)

Who Mentor (Athena) borrowed a ship for Telemachus from

Icarius

Who Telemachus originally said would choose a new husband for Penelope, but later said she could choose with her own free will.

“Or did Odysseus, my warlike father, deliberately do harm to our own side?” How is this ironic?

Telemachus assumes that Odysseus was always a helper of the Greek side, and the men don’t know that

What are the birds’ job?

They’re parallel to Telemachus and Odysseus, who will attack the suitors.

Prophets observed what in order to predict the future?

Bird flight