Malone's Flocabulary "The Odyssey"
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tmalone2000 on February 12, 2012
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Flocabulary.com offers us a more contemporary look at Homer's "The Odyssey" using hip-hop lyrics and catchy phrases as they introduce this nearly three thousand year old masterpiece that is still ranked as one of the most read and celebrated stories of all time. Included in this set a (see more)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Homer | 800-700 BC wrote Iliad and Odyssey |
| Menelaus | King of Sparta, Married Helen, later attacked Troy with Greek Army, provides Telemachus with best information about Odysseus |
| Paris | Trojan who judged the contest for the Golden Apple and chose Aphrodite. Prize was Helen. |
| Odysseus | Epic Hero for Odyssey |
| Achilles | Epic hero in Iliad |
| Agammemnon | King and Greek General |
| Alcinoos | King who listens to Odysseus' stories and provides ship for him to sail home. This represents the last stop before home. |
| Antinous | Bold suitor, leader of the suitors, first to get shot with arrow. |
| Aphrodite | Goddess of beauty, supports Troy, |
| Argus | Odysseus' dog. He trained him before leaving for war. |
| Athena | Goddess of wisdom, intervenes with Zeus, skilled in warfare |
| Calypso | minor goddess who loves Odysseus and doesn't want to let him go. She represents the penultimate stop. |
| Charybdis | Boat eating whirlpool, treacherous, pulls boats under. Represents one of the sea perils |
| Circe | enchantress, turns men into pigs and would damage Odysseus. Later interprets Tiresies's prophecy to help Odyseus. |
| Eris | Goddess of discord. Throws golden apple into Peleus and Thetis wedding celebration. |
| Elpenor | Name of Odysseus' youngest fighter who falls and breaks neck trying to get off of Circe's roof. |
| Eumaeus | Trusty swineherd and friend of Odysseus and Telemachos |
| Eurylochus | Mutinous sailor who persuades Odysseus' men to eat the Cattle of the Sun God. |
| Eurynome | Trusty housekeeper of Penelope |
| Anticlea | Odysseus' mom who died of grief. |
| Helen | Most beautiful woman in the world, married to menelaus, given to Paris as prize, face who launched a thousand ships |
| Helios | The sun god. Owned immortal cattle |
| Hermes | Messenger of the gods. Tells Calypso to let Odysseus go. Warns Odysseus about Circe. |
| Laertes | Odysseus father. |
| Lampetia | Sea nymph that protects Odysseus from drowning. |
| Persephone | daughter of Demeter, wife of Hades, lives with him 6 months of the year. |
| Polyphemus | Cyclops son of Poseidon |
| Poseidon | God of sea, storms, keeps Odysseus from getting home |
| Scylla | 6 headed monster with rows of serrated teeth. Lives near Charybdis. Part of sea perils |
| Sirens | Part bird, part women, songs lure men to their deaths. Part of sea perils |
| Telemachos | Odysseus' son. Suitors plot to kill. Expresses theme of Bildungsroman |
| Tiresias | Blind prophet in underworld who gives Odysseus information about how to get home. |
| Ilium | Older name for Troy |
| Achea | Older name for Greece |
| epic | a long, narrative poem that celebrates a hero and cultural values of a people |
| en medias res | in the middle of things... story told outside of chronological order |
| oral tradition | Stories told by poets, scops, rhapsodes, and handed down from one generation to the next by being spoken. |
| ambrosia | food or drink of the gods |
| polytheism | Many gods with specific realms of power |
| animism | spirit is more present in some places than in others. |
| barrow | a heap of rocks over a burial site marking a grave. |
| invocation | the act of calling upon the gods, prayer. |
| Muse | Any of the 9 goddesses that preside over music or poetry |
| formidable | inspiring fear |
| guile | the quality of being wise, cunning and crafty |
| ponderous | extremely heavy |
| Zeus | King of all the gods |
| Lotos Eaters | People addicted to that mind numbing plant |
| Aeolus | God of winds whose present almost takes Odysseus home. |
| Suitors | Men who live in Odysseus house trying to force Penelope to pick one for marriage |
| Hades | The underworld |
| Euryclea | Odysseus's nurse who recognizes his scar. |
| Nausicaa | Princess of Phaeacia, discovers Odysseus when he washes ashore. |
| Noh'body | The fake name Odysseus gives to fool the cyclops. |
| Ogygia | Calypso's island where Odysseus stayed for about 7 years. |
| Cicones | Alies of the Trojans, great fighters on horseback, battled Odysseus men in first stop. |
| Laestrygonians | Monstrous cannibal giants who lived in Telepylus. |
| Order of the journey | Cicones, Lotos Eaters, Cyclops, Aeolus, Laestrygonians, Circe, Underworld, 3 Sea Perils, Helios' Island, Ogygia, Phaecia |
| 1200 BCE | Probable dates of Trojan war |
| war reasons | economic and romantic |
| monotheism | Belief in one supreme god |
| XENIA | term for Homeric code of helping strangers, Greek concept of hospitality, or generosity and courtesy shown to those who are far from home. It is often translated as "guest-friendship" because the rituals of hospitality created and expressed a reciprocal relationship between guest and host. Paris betrayed this with Menelaus because he took Helen. |
| Nostos | the return; homecoming (this is the major theme of this epic), the return; homecoming (this is the major theme of this epic) |
| Bildungsroman | Archetypal coming of age story |
| Melanthios | Goat herd, MEAN, insults Odysseus (as the begger) and kicks Odysseus. Aids the suitors during battle and is tortured for punishment |
| Melantho | Sister of Melanthius and maidservant in Odysseus's palace. Like her brother, Melantho abuses the beggar in the palace, not knowing that the man is Odysseus. She is having an affair with Eurymachus. |
| Amphinomos | A suitor who was considered the least intent on getting Penelope, and Telemakhos' first kill. |
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