Polyphemus
Who is the Cyclops?
This is the main reason the suitors have taken over Odysseus' home.
What is to marry Penelope?
Odysseus was gone from Ithaca for this number of years.
What is 20?
Telemachus
Who is Odysseus' son?
Facing the Cyclops and Scylla and Charybdis are this part of the Heroic Journey.
What are tests and ordeals?
What is as a beggar?
These three gods/goddesses helped Odysseus defeat the suitors.
Who are Athena, Apollo, and Zeus?
Penelope
Who is Odysseus' wife?
Odysseus wanting to get all of his soldiers home safely is an example of this epic hero trait.
What is loyalty?
This is the reason Odysseus didn't warn his men about the dangers of Scylla and Charybdis.
What is he didn't want them to panic/all of them to die?
This is how Penelope avoided choosing a suitor to marry.
What is weaving and unweaving a tapestry?
"Ah, how sound that was! Yet I refused. I wished to see the cave man, what he had to offer" shows which of Odysseus' character traits?
What is arrogance?
Scylla and Charybdis
What are the monsters Odysseus and his men have to sail past?
Athena disguising Odysseus as a beggar is this part of the Heroic Journey.
What is the transformation?
While Odysseus is praying on the island of the cattle of the sun god, his men do this.
What is kill and eat the sun god's cattle?
What is string Odysseus' bow and shoot an arrow through 12 axe heads?
Antinous
Who is the leader of/one of the suitors?
This is the final stage of the Heroic Journey.
What is the return?
This is how Odysseus eventually returns home.
What is on a ship given to him by a king?
What is his knowledge of their bed?