A Review Game

The Odyssey

Odysseus stays with her for seven years

Calypso

He raises a storm to destroy Odysseus’s raft when he sails from Calypso’s island

Poseidon

The goddess of wisdom;

she favors Odysseus

Athena

The king of the gods; hesends down a thunderbolt which destroys Odysseus’

remaining ship and causes his crew to drown

Zeus

She turns Odysseus’s men into pigs

Circe

A character’s background orfamily tree is listed

Catalog

A character brags about

his past to gain respect

Boasting

The gods and goddesses get involved in human affairs

Divine Intervention

The present is interrupted to go back and tell about something that happened earlier

Flashback

The social code of taking care of guests and warriors

Hospitality Code

“‘My name is Noman; aye, and Noman my father and my mother called me and all my comrades.’”

Intelligence

“‘We are not, friends, untried in danger. This new peril that lies before us is no greater than when the Cyclops caught and held us fast in his hollow cave.

Yet we found escape . . . I think we shall live to tell the tale of this day too.’”

Leadership

“I put on my glorious armor and I grasped two spears in my hand and

took my station on the decked prow, for there I thought I first should see appear this Scylla.”

Bravery

“Here Cyclops, take this wine, and drink after your feast of human flesh, and learn how good a drink we kept hidden within our ship.’”

Intelligence

“So there I took my stand by it (a large piece of olive wood) and cut a fathom’s length away, and this I gave my men and bade them shape it. They made it smooth, while I stood by and brought it to a point and charred it in a glowing fire.”

Battle Skills

“‘I am Odysseus, great Laertes’ son.’”

Catalog

Odysseus goes to the underworld to talk to the blindprophet, Teiresias

Visit to Hades

“Zeus now thundered from on high and hurled his bolt upon the ship.”

Divine Intervention

“Tell me the tale, Muse, of that man of many changes, he who went wandering so far when

he had plundered Troy’s sacred citadel.”

Call to the Muse

While Odysseus is at the Land of thePhaeacians, he recalls his wanderings and tells Alcinous what happened to him after he left Troy

Flashback

Wife of Odysseus

Penelope

Creator of The Odyssey

Homer

Homer’s first epic about the Trojan War

The Iliad

These giant cannibals destroy 11 of Odysseus’s ships

Laestrygonians

He is the king in charge of the winds; he places the stormy

winds in a bag so Odysseus can sail back to Ithaca

King Aeolus

Odysseus is tied to the mast so he can

hear their song

The Sirens

This king takes Odysseus in as a stranger, and

Odysseus tells him about his travels

Alcinous

Odysseus is warned not to harm his

cattle

Helios

These characters get three of Odysseus’s men to eat a flower

that makes them forget about their

homeland

The Lotus Eaters

Odysseus lost 72 of his men to this powerful

army

Cicones

The character takes a trip to the Underworld

Visit to Hades

At the beginning of the epic when the poet asks for divine inspiration in

telling his story

Call to the Muse

The action of the epic begins in the

middle

In Medias Res

A phrase that describes or

renames a person

Epithet

An overused, descriptive phrase

repeated in the epic; helps the poet

memorize his work

Stock Phrase

The story begins with Telemachus going off in search of his father who never returned from the

Trojan War

In Medias Res

“But when the dawn came, early-born and

rosy-fingered.”

Stock Phrase

“‘If, O Cyclops, a mortal man shall ever ask you how it befell your eye

was blinded so hideously, then answer thus: it was Odysseus blinded

you, taker of Troy, Laertes’ son who dwells in Ithaca.’”

•Boasting•Epithet•Catalog

“‘Now we come hither before your knees to pray you give welcome to your guests and grant us such gifts

as guests should have.’”

Hospitality Code

1000“‘Odysseus, taker of

Troy”

1000Epithet

This monster has 12 tentacle-like legs, six heads on serpent-like

necks, and triple, razor-sharp fangs; kills six of Odysseus’ men

Scylla

A long, narrative poem about a superhuman hero

Epic

The great Greek warrior killed when a poisoned arrow hit him in his weak spot

Achilles

A traveling singer of tales

Rhapsode

This monster swallows sea water, causing a

dangerous whirlpool

Charybdis