The Returns And The Odyssey Flashcards

Front 1

What Trojan war hero was killed when a storm brought by Athena near Mykonos pushed many ships onto the rocks?

Back 1

Ajax the Lesser

Front 2

What father of Palamedes avenged his son's death by luring ships onto rocks during a bad storm off Cape Capnareus?

Back 2

Nauplius

Front 3

Agamemnon was killed by his wife and her lover. Name them

Back 3

Clytmnestra and Aegisthus

Front 4

Which Trojan war hero returned home to Pylos safely?

Back 4

Nestor

Front 5

Which Trojan war hero lost all but five ships and eventually landed in Egypt?

Back 5

Menelaus

Front 6

What daughter of Nereus instructed Menelaus to force her father to give them directions for a safe journey back to Sparta with Helen; seven years later they made it?

Back 6

Eidothea

Front 7

What wife of Diomedes and daughter of Adrastus was unfaithful because Aphrodite was upset that he had wounded her during the war?

Back 7

Aeglalia

Front 8

What Apulian king gave Diomedes a tract of land in Italy after her left Argos?

Back 8

Daunus

Front 9

Diomedes refused to aid what Latin king in the war against the Rutuli?

Back 9

Latinus

Front 10

What creatures were the followers of Diomedes transformed into after his death?

Back 10

Birds

Front 11

Who returned to Crete to find that his wife had committed adultery?

Back 11

Idomeneus

Front 12

What wife of Idomeneus was having an affair with Leucus and was killed along with her daughter by Leucus?

Back 12

Meda

Front 13

This Trojan war hero was warned by his great-grandmother Thetis to avoid the water route home

Back 13

Neoptolemus

Front 14

What daughter of Menelaus did Neoptolemus take as his wife?

Back 14

Hermione

Front 15

What Greek prophet and wife of Hector traveled with Neoptolemus and Hermione?

Back 15

Helenus and Andromache

Front 16

What priest of Apollo had been spared at Ismarus, the home of the Cicones, where the crew of Odysseus received 12 jars of wine?

Back 16

Maron

Front 17

What son of Poseidon was killing the men of Odysseus and was not stopped until he became drunken and was blinded?

Back 17

Polyphemus

Front 18

What god of the winds gave Odysseus a bag of winds which would allow him to return to Ithaca safely?

Back 18

Aeolus

Front 19

What group of cannibals destroyed 11 of the 12 ships which were part of the crew of Odysseus?

Back 19

Laestrygonians

Front 20

What island was the home of Circe

Back 20

Aeaea

Front 21

What daughter of Helios first turned the men of Odysseus into swin and then allowed them to stay on her island for a year?

Back 21

Circe

Front 22

Which of Odysseus' men escaped being turned into a pig and ran back to Odysseus to tell him what happened?

Back 22

Eurylochus

Front 23

Name the son of Odysseus and Circe

Back 23

Telegonus

Front 24

What prophet told Odysseus of the problems which were occurring back in Ithaca?

Back 24

Tiresias

Front 25

What daughter of Phorcys was changed into a man-eating creature due to the jealousy of Amphitrite?

Back 25

Scylla

Front 26

What island was the site of the great storm that wiped out the entire crew of Odysseus because they ate the cattle of Helios?

Back 26

Thriniacia

Front 27

The storm off Thrinacia blew Odysseus back to Charybdis where he survived the whirlpool by holding on to what type of tree?

Back 27

Fig

Front 28

What island of Calypso was the home of Odysseus for seven years?

Back 28

Ogygia

Front 29

What water nymph, formerly Ino, helped Odysseus survive by giving him her cloak/veil which would allow him to float?

Back 29

Leucothea

Front 30

What land was the home of the Phaecians?

Back 30

Scheria

Front 31

Name the king, queen and princess of Scheria

Back 31

Alcinous, Arete, and Nausicaa

Front 32

The Phaecians outfitted a ship to transport Odysseus back to Ithaca. However, it was turned into what material on its return journey?

Back 32

Stone

Front 33

Penelope avoided the suitors by weaving a funeral shroud for this man, the father of Odysseus

Back 33

Laertes

Front 34

Who was the only child of Penelope and Odysseus and one of two people who knew Odysseus had returned to Ithaca?

Back 34

Telemachus

Front 35

Name the swineherd of Odysseus

Back 35

Eumaeus

Front 36

This dog of Odysseus recognized his owner and then took his final breath, happy that his master had finally returned

Back 36

Argus

Front 37

Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, entered into his own house where he was challenged to a fight by what beggar who had taken up residence in his home?

Back 37

Irus

Front 38

A scar on his foot, received as a child, alerted this childhood nurse that Odysseus had returned

Back 38

Euryclea

Front 39

After Odysseus shot an arrow through all twelve axes he immediately killed what leader of the suitors?

Back 39

Antinous

Front 40

Odysseus and Telemachus spared what herald and bard i nthe slaughter which occurred in the great hall of the palace?

Back 40

Medon and Phemius

Front 41

This "bad" goatherd was killed by Odysseus in the battle

Back 41

Melanthius

Front 42

After the battle, the parents of the suitors approach Odysseus and what father of Antinous was killed in the fight?

Back 42

Eupeithes

Front 43

Odysseus was unaware of the existence of one of his sons and this son eventually caused his death. Who was this son?

Back 43

Telegonus