Odyssey Books 5-12
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Hermes power
Can make people sleep & wake-up
Hermes comparison
a gull patrolling between wave crests of the desolate sea
What does Calypso tempt Odysseus with?
immortality & to stay young forever
How does Poseidon strike against Odysseus?
Raises a storm, where the raft is now destroyed
Who saves Odysseus from the storm?
Athena & Sea nymph
Epithet of Calypso
sweet nymph & divine
Epithet of Hermes
way finder
Epithet of Nausicaa
white armed
Who is Demodocus?
story teller, who is like homer
Who is Nausicaa?
teenage princess of Scheria
Athena tells Nausicaa that she needs to wash her clothes, why?
so she know show to before she gets married
How long was Odysseus’s journey from Ogygia to Scheria?
20 days
What does Odysseus tell Nausicaa the best thing in the world is?
having a spouse & a strong house held in serenity
Why are Nausicaa and the Phaeacians not fearful of “war or pillage”?
they are dear to immortal gods
Nausicaa doesnt wanna be seen with Odysseus in the village, why?
because people in town are salty & will spread gossip about them
Athena enhances Odysseus’s hair to what color?
reddish/goldish
Who is Hades?
lord of hell/underworld
Who is Persephone?
Queen of hell/underworld
Who is Demeter?
goddess of harvest and motherly love
What is the river of Styx?
Boundary between life & death, where Achillea’s mother dipped him
What is a Cerberus?
3 headed dog, who guards the Styx river
What is the city of Cicones?
the 1st place they stopped, revenged through the town. Odysseus takes defeat & learns humility
Outcome of city of Cicones?
ship was tossed around the sea by destructive winds for 9 days
What is the land of Lotus-Eaters?
where they all get drunk and forget about everything
What is the island of Aeolus?
the warden of the winds. Gives them a parting gift to seal all evil winds
Who is Teiresias?
the blind prophet
What does Teiresias tell Odysseus?
Poseidon is angry about the wounding of polyphemus
refrain from slaughtering any cows of Helios
great sorrow awaits him in ithaca, but he will live a long life
What are Sirens?
women with wings, who try to seduce men with their singing
What is Scylla?
6 headed monster, would only kill 6 men
What is Charybdis?
whirlpool, would kill the whole ship
Helios threatened what?
to take away the sun
Anticleia
the mother of Odysseus