Books 11 and 12
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19 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 poseidon | According to Teiresias, who is angry with Oddyseus? |
| if they touch the sacred cattle of helios | According to Teiresias, what action will result in the destruction of the ship and crew? |
| men courting his wife | according to teiresias, what will odysseus find when he gets home |
| one just odysseus | how many men will survive the ride back to ithica |
| kill them | what will odysseus have to do to the suiters? |
| he will die old | how does teiresias say odysseus will die? |
| lull men in with their sons and eat them | what do the sirens do? |
| plug their ears with wax | how do the men get past the sirens |
| 6 heads, 12 tentacles, 3 rows of teeth, and 6 stomachs | describe scylla |
| a vortex | describe charybdis |
| scylla, charybdis | circe advises adysseus to pass by ______ rather than ______ |
| thrinakia | what is the name of the island of the cattle? |
| 7 | how many herds/flocks are there on thrinakia |
| the crew and ship will be destroyed | what will happen if the cattle are harmed |
| he is the only one that will survive | what does odysseus keep from the men |
| encourages them | the men stopped rowing out of fear, what does odysseus do in response |
| takes 6 of his best men | what does scylla do |
| helios | what god ruled over the island of the sun |
| calypsos island | where has odysseus been since the incident with helios before he ended up with king alcinous |
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