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43 Cards in this Set
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Homer |
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God of Sea |
Poseidon |
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Cyclops' name? |
Polyphemus |
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God of Sun |
Helios |
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Hero of Ithaca |
Odysseus |
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Whirlpool? |
Charybdis |
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Monster with 6 heads |
Scylla |
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King of gods |
Zeus |
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Odysseus faithful wife is |
Penelope |
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goddess of wisdom skills and war |
Athena |
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Warned the men about the cattle |
Circe |
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Epic |
Long narrative poem |
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Went to fight in what war |
Trojan |
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Homer also wrote |
illiad |
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Where was the trojan war |
Troy |
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How long did the war last |
10 YEARS |
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Homer belives whom controls all |
gods |
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Rhapsodes |
Traveling poets |
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Homer asked who for help |
Muse |
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They were woth the Calypso for how many years |
7 |
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Odysseus is trlling his story to who |
King of Alcinous |
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Zeus punishes the men by |
Killing all of then with a lightning bolt except for Odysseus |
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The greeks trated strangers with what |
Hospitality |
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A third dawn came with ringlets shining is a |
Simile |
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When the crewmen ate the lotus flower what happened to them |
They forgot what home was and stayed on that island forever |
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Cyclops father |
Poseidon |
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What did odysseus say his name was to Cyclops |
Nohbody |
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What is odysseus plan for cyclops |
To stab him in the eye but before that get him drunk |
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How does odysseu escape from cyclops |
He hids underneath the lamb/sheep's belly |
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Gifts that Aeolus gave to Odyssues |
West winds that leads them the way home and stormy winds in a bag |
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How do sirens lure men to their death |
They sing songs to lure them to the rocks to die |
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Odysseus aviods getting lured by the sirens by |
Being tied up to the mask by his crewmen |
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Caught between scylla and charybdis means |
It is like deciding which bad or evil way to go; between a rock and a hard place |
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Scylla |
A 6 headed 12 leged or armed monster that has 3 rows of teeth. She eats 6 men for each head in order for anyone to survive |
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Charybdis |
Whirlpool who lures ships 3 times a day towards it. Once it closes she shoots everything out just like a volcano |
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Circe |
Witch or god that lives on Aeaea |
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Circe does what to the men |
Turns them into animals or pigs |
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Circe sends odyssues to whom for wisdom |
Teirsias who is on the land of the dead |
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Teirsias is a what rype of prophet. Why is this ironic |
He is blind. Ironic bc he fortells the future or sees what will happen in the future |
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Teirsias tells odysseus what |
Not to eat the cattle There r suitors at home He will live a lonf life |
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What is odysseus doing when the men eat the cattle |
He goes to pray to the gods |
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Who tells the crew to eat the cattle |
Eurylochos |
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Poseidon hates odysseus bc |
Odysseus blinded poseidon son the cyclops |
