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Mentês |
form Athena takes when she first comes to give Telemachos advice to go and seek out information on his father |
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Antinoös |
head suitor that hates on Telemachos and says it's Penlopeia's fault and not the suitors that they're eating Telemachos out of house and home, plots to kill Telemachos |
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Eurymachos |
also a head suitor that hates on Telemachos |
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Penelopeia |
mother of Telemachos and wife of Odysseus |
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Aigyptios |
herald, opens the meeting in the marketplace , gives Telemachos speaking scepter |
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Halithersês Mastirudês |
warns the suitors that if they stay in Telemachos' home, they will die |
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Mentor (real) |
defends Telemachos against suitors, he was left in charge of Odysseus' home when he left for the war |
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Leocritos Euenoridês |
argues with Telemachos on the suitors side in the marketplace |
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Eurycleia |
Telemachos' wet nurse, like a mother figure, tries to stop him from leaving because she worries and also because she knows the suitors want to kill him |
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Peisistratos |
becomes a friend and role model for Telemachos |
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Polycasta |
Nestor's daughter who bathed Telemachos |
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Nestor |
king that tells Telemachos about his father's role in the Trojan war, advises him to go visit Menelaus |
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Helen |
From The Iliad, she was stolen by Paris, Trojan War was all her fault |
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Menelaus |
king who tells Telemachos that his father is alive |
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Medon |
marshal that warns Penlopeia of scheming suitors and reveals Telemachos is gone |
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Nereus |
old man in the sea |
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Eidothea |
tells Menelaus how to capture Proteus |
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Proteus |
tells Menelaus how to get home |
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Who was Hera? |
wife of Zeus and goddess of marriage |
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God of Fire |
Hephaestus |
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wife of Hephaestus |
Aphrodite |
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ugly/lame god |
Hephaestus |
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Apollo's twin |
Artemis |
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Apollo was the guardian of whom? |
Men |
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Who trapped Aphrodite and Ares in bed? |
Hephaestus |
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Hermes is |
The Messenger God |
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What instrument did Hermes invent? |
lyre |
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Aphrodite is the goddess of |
love and beauty |
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who was aphrodite first married to? |
hephaestus |
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Who was Hector the son of? |
Priam |
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Hector was on which side? |
Trojans |
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What was Athena occasionally called? |
War Goddess |
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Poseidon's symbol? |
Trident |
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Menelaus' wife |
Helen |
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What was Achilles mother, Thetis? |
Nereid |
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Who raised Achilles? |
Thetis |
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Who did Paris give the golden apple? |
Aphrodite |
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What was Paris' destiny? |
death |
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Who raised Zeus? |
nymphs |
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Agamemnon's wife |
clytemnestra |
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Priam was the king of what city |
Troy |
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Helen's Father |
Zeus |
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Who stole Helen |
Paris |
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Achilles is known as |
greatest greek warrior ever |
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Menelaus' brother |
Agamemnon |
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How did Zeus become king of gods? |
He overthrew his father Cronus |
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Demeter mourned who? Refused what? |
Mourned her daughter taken by Hades. Refused to carry out her duties of agriculture as long as her daughter was missing (reason for seasons) |
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What did Paris judge on? |
bribes |
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Chryseis |
originally taken slave by Agamemnon |
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Nestor |
King of Pylos and mentor to Greeks at Troy |
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What fooled the Trojans at Troy? |
Wooden horse |
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How long was the Trojan War? |
10 years |
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Odysseus was king of |
Ithaca |
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How did the one eyed cyclops fall asleep? |
drank wine until he was drunk and passed out |
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Whose face launched a thousand ships? |
Helen |
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Greek god or ruler of the dead? |
Hades |
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Roman epic written by Virgil |
Aeneid |
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The Sirens |
beings with enchanting voices that lured sailors out to sea |
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Author of Iliad and Odyssey |
Homer
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Ferryman of the underworld |
Charon |
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Muses |
9 daughters of Zeus and each had her own special field |
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What's an Odyssey |
a long voyage with many changes of fortune |
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When was the Odyssey written? |
1000 BC |
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What's the Odyssey an allegory for? |
all of our lives |
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How long is the Odyssey |
12,000 lines |
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How's the Odyssey an archetype |
common easily related to main character |
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How's Odysseus "different" from other heroes |
he's a complete character with good and bad traits and ready to face all challenges |
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Why is Homer a poet of crisis? |
he writes about going through problems that can be related to everyday problems |
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where did odysseus and his men first land on their journey home? |
island of the cyclops |
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what happened to polyphemus due to his rude behavior |
stabbed in the eye with a sharp stick |
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what does "I" in greek mean? |
"ego" or "himself" |
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how many different destinations does Odysseus hit? |
12 |
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What did gods represent to greeks? |
forces of nature and nature of man |
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why are odysseus' men turned into pigs at Circe's Island? |
they behaved badly at her table |
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why are women important?
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women see odysseus off on each of his departures which is a metaphor for women giving birth and seeing their children into the world |
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what was important about homers works? |
influenced many writers created action/adventure genre |
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purpose of odysseus' journey |
to learn life, even with its suffering, is better than death |
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theme of homecoming is an archetype |
just as applicable today |
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homer fulfills "superstar" fantasy by |
odysseus disguised as a beggar and then beating all the suitors at stringing and firing the bow |
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true substance of poem |
coming back home and embracing that home is where one has begun and where one wants to go |
