Odyssey Test on Wed

Son of Odysseus

Telemachus

What war is Odysseus attempting to come home from

Trojan War

What is the first line of the Odyssey

Something about a complex man

Muse and telling about a turned man

“Tell me about a complicated man”

At Ithaca how does Athena help disguise Odysseus

old beggar

What divine figure continually helps Odysseus

Athena

What is Penelope supposedly weaving at the beginning

Knitting a shroud thing for Laertes

How does Penelope refer to Troy

evil town, evilium

Who is tiresius

the blind prophet and there is irony in his blindness

Who is the father of the blinded Cyclops

Poseidon

Who was the goddess nymph who held Odysseus

Calypso

What does the name Calypso mean

Hidden

The first woman to translate the Odyssey

Emily Wilson

Polyphemus

cyclops

What was polyphemus’ profession

sheperd

Argos in the odyssey was..

The faith dog who recognized odysseus

Proteus is the old man of the sea. What does he reveal to Menelaus?

Calypso is holding Odysseus captive

Who is Pisistratus?

Son of Nestor

The narrative style of the Odyssey can be characterized as

In the middle of things (in medias res)

Who does Odysseus NOT meet in the underworld?

Anchises

Antinous

Chief of the suitors

Alcinous is

The king of Phaecia

What happened to Agamemnon after he returned from the Trojan war

His wife killed him and there son killed her making a cycle of violence

What does Circe turn several of Odysseus’ men into

Pigs

Whats the deal with Alpenor

He falls off the roof on island with Circe, got drunk and passes out and broke his neck H

How did someone indicate begging in the ancient world?

Get on your knees

Who are the monstrous sea creatures who have singing voices?

Sirens

Who was the wife of alcinous and mother of nausicaa?

Arete

How does the sea goddess Ino save Odysseus from drowning

Gives a scarf/veil to tie around his waist

Who warns Odysseus to leave the cattle of the sun god alone

Tiresius and circe

What is penelope and telemachus’ home filled with

Suitors

What does the name telemachus mean

Far from battle

How does the loyal eurycleia recognize odysseus

the scar on his foot W

What is the name of Odysseus’s loyal swine herd?

eumaeus

Who is mentor

athena in disguise

After they eat a certain plant, odysseus’ sailors forget they want to go home. What plant?

Lotus

When polyphemus askes Odysseus for his name what is the reply?

“Nobody, no one”

How did Odysseus’s mother, anticlea die

Mourning odysseus

How long was odysseus gone

20 years

Who gives odysseus an herb, so circe’s magic would not work

Hermes

What is the signature task odysseus must accomplish to prove he is the true husband

string a bow and shoot through the axis

How is odysseus abe to resist the sirens

He has his men tie him to the ship’s mast

To be stuck betwwen a rock and hard place would be another way of saying

to be caught between scylla and charybdis

How did aeolus help odysseus

Aeolus captures the winds