Odyssey
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 what is an epic similie | a really long similie that may take up a whole paragraph |
| when was the trojan war | it took place in 1200 BC with troy vs, greece |
| Who caused the trojan war? | paris |
| What are epic Poems? | the iliad or the odyssey, written by homer around 800 BC |
| What is an Epithet? | a short descriptive label ex. Odysseus, Son of Laertes |
| What is hubris? | pride that causes problems for heroes |
| Acheans | greeks or odysseuses men |
| King Alcinous | he offers odysseus a ship 10 years after the trojan war and he asks him to tell his story |
| Noman or Nobdy | what odysseus says his name is to the cyclops |
| ulysses | an alternate name for odysseus |
| Cattle of the Sun God | Odysseseuses men capture and kill helios cattle. Helios wants zeus to punish them so zeus destroys odysseuses ship. Odysseus then drifted toward charybdis and hung on to the limb of a fig tree until it was safe to come down |
| Cicones | odysseus stormed their island, Ismarus, and killed the men and enslaved the women. they took their wine, sheeo, and cattle |
| The lotus eaters | they gave odysseuses men the sweet flower blossom that made them not want to leave. Odysseus had to tie his men to the benches of the boat so they could leave |
| Land of the dead | Circe told odysseus that in order to get home, he would need to travel to the underword and speak with tiresias. He guards a pool of blood and while doing so, he speaks with elpenor and he sees his dead mother. When he speaks with tiresias, he is told not to harm the sun gods cattle |
| Aeolia | where aeolis lives |
| Aeaea | Ruled by circe |
| Phaecia | the phaecians gave odysseus a boat to travel home. phaecia is ruled by Alchinious |
| Thrinacia | Cattle of the sun god happened here |
| Ogygia | Calypso's island |
| Ithaca | island west of greece that is odysseuses home |
| ilium | troy |
| Penelope | Odysseus wife who is tried to be taken by the suitors |
| Telemachus | Odysseuses son who was born right before he left for troy |
| Laertes | odysseus father |
| Anticlea | Odysseuses mother |
| Eurycleia | was told to make up odysseuses bed at the end when penelope wasnt sure if it was really odysseus or not |
| Eumaeus | Swineherder who helped odysseus fight the suitors. before going back to his home when he reaches ithaca, he goes to eumaeuses shack first |
| Eurylochus | chained up sheep and goats when they reached land on the way to the land of the dead and he helped to tie odysseus to the mast when they sailed by the sirens. he was a member of odyseus crew |
| Elpenor | he drank too much and fell off a ladder and died on circes island. he was a member of odysseus crew |
| scylla | sea monster near charybdisbwho ate 6 of odysseuses men |
| charybdis | big giant whirlpool that swallows all the water down and then spits it back out |
| Laestrygonians | cannibals that destroy all of odysseus ships except for 1 ship he is sailing in |
| The sirens | they lure sailors to their death by singing and making them crash into rocks. odysseus was the only person who could hear the siren songs so he had to be tied to the mast |
| circe | turns odysseus men into swine but then turns them back. she was a sorceress godess. she tells odysseus that he was to travel to the land of the dead to see tiresias. She also tells odysseus about the sirens, scylla, and charybdis and how to avoid them |
| calypso | odysseus is detained at her island for 10 years. she lives on ogygia |
| polyphemus | the cyclops-son of poseidon, who gets eye bored out by odysseus |
| cyclopes | plural for cyclops-giants with one eye in the middleof their forehead |
| tiresias | blind prophet who tells odyseus not to harm helioses cattle |
| Helios | god of the sun that demands that zeus punish odyseus for killing his cattle |
| aeolis | king of winds who gives odyssesus a gift,....all the winds except the west wind which would help him get home |
| Amphitrite | poseidons wife |
| poseidon | god of the sea, he makes it harder for odysseus to get home because he is mad because of odysseuses hubris |
| athena | disguises odysseus as a beggar and helps direct him to eumaeus and she helps them to fight the suitors |
| Zeus | son of cronus, king of the gods, strikes down odysseus ship in cattle of the sun god. helps fight the suitors |
| Antinous | leader among the suitors, killed by an arrow shot by odysseus that hit him in the throat |
| eurymachus | suitor who tries to save himself by offering odysseus money, gifts, and land to replace what they had taken from living in his house, but he was shot in the chest by anarrow that went through his liver. |
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