Epithets:Do you know

who I am?

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Odyssey

Wild Women of

the Odyssey

There is no way that happened

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100 Points

Lord of high noon

Answer: Who is Helios

200 Points

Question: The monster of the gray rock

Answer: Who is Scylla?

300 Points

Question: Raider of Cities

Answer: Who is Odysseus?

400 Points

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Answer: Who is Tiresias?

Prince of Thebes

500 Points

Question: Dire gorge of the salt sea

Answer: Who is Charybdis?

100 Points Question: This writer may have

been a blind poet & rhapsode born in the 8th century, or possibly a

group of poets over hundreds of years—no one is certain.

Answer: Who is Homer?

200 Points Question:This person was given

the task of choosing “The Fairest” goddess at the wedding that

started the Trojan War.

Answer: Who is Paris?

300 Points Question: “The Wanderings” of The Odyssey are told from this

point of view.

Answer: What is First Person?

400 Points

Question:This is the strategy of starting a work in the middle

of the story.

Answer: What is in medias res?

500 Points

Question: After the Trojan War, Odysseus and his men set sail for

home; at their first stop, these people are responsible for killing a large

number of Odysseus’ men.Answer: Who are the Cicones?

100 Points

Question: Mistress of the isle

Answer: Who is Calypso?

200 Points Question: Queen of the

Underworld

Answer: Who is Persephone?

Answer: Who is Eurycleia?

300 Points

Question: The nurse and loyal servant to Odysseus’

family

400 Points

Question: This goddess was NOT invited to the wedding that eventually led to the Trojan War. Answer: Who is Eris?

500 Points

Question: The Odyssey opens with an invocation to this muse of epic

poetry.

Answer: Who is Calliope?

100 Points

Question:Hermes travels to Calypso’s island to do this.

Answer: What is order Odysseus’ release (on Zeus’ command)?

200 Points

Question: Odysseus’ men untie the bag of winds from Aeolus because

of this.

Answer: What is they think it contains treasure?

300 Points

Question: Odysseus does not want his men eating the lotus plants

because of this.

Answer: What is they cause people to lose their desire to return home?

400 Points

Question: Circe turns Odysseus’ men into these.

Answer: What are pigs?

500 Points

Question: Odysseus chooses to blind Polyphemus rather than kill

him because of this.

Answer: What is Polyphemus is the only one who can move the boulder blocking the cave’s entrance?

100 Points

Question: “Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that

man skilled in all ways of contending.”

Answer: What is an invocation?

200 Points

Question:When Odysseus tells Polyphemus his name is

“Nohbdy” Answer: What is verbal irony?

300 Points

Question: “extinguishing fire with fierce fire”

Answer: What is a paradox?

400 Points

Question: “The man skilled in all ways of contending”

Answer: What is an epithet?

500 Points

Question: “A man in a distant field, no hearth fires near

Will hide a fresh brand in his bed of embers

to keep a spark alive for the next day;

so in the leaves Odysseus hid himself.”

Answer: What is a Homeric/Epic Simile?

100 Points

Question: The loyal servant who helps Odysseus defeat the suitors

Answer: Who is Eumaeus?

200 Points

Question:Phaeacian king who hosts the banquet at which Odysseus

tells of his adventures Answer: Who is Alcinous?

300 Points

Question: Blind Prophet who offers advice to Odysseus.

Answer: Who is Tiresias?

400 Points

Question:The lead suitor who is the first one killed by Odysseus.

Answer: Who is Antinous?

500 Points

Question: The suitor who offers Odysseus a bribe to save his life.

Answer: Who is Eurymachus?