The Odyssey

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The Odyssey
A Review Game
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Gods, Goddesses, and Mortals, Oh My!
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100

• Odysseus stays with
• her for seven years

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100

• Calypso

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200

• He raises a storm to
• destroy Odysseus raft when he sails from
  Calypsos
• island

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200

• Poseidon

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300

• The goddess of wisdom
• she favors Odysseus

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300

• Athena

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400

• The king of the gods he
• sends down a thunderbolt which destroys Odysseus
  remaining ship and causes his crew to drown

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400

• Zeus

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500

• She turns Odysseus
• men into pigs

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500

• Circe

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Cite That Epic Characteristic
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100

• A characters
• background or
• family tree is listed

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100

• Catalog

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200

• A character brags about
• his past to gain respect

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200

• Boasting

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300

• The gods and goddesses
• get involved in
• human affairs

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• Divine Intervention

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400

• The present is
• interrupted to go back and tell about something
  that happened earlier

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• Flashback

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500

• The social code of taking
• care of guests and
• warriors

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500

• Hospitality Code

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Is It a Bird or a Plane?No, Its Odysseus!
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100

• My name is Nohbdy
• mother,
• father, and
• friends, / everyone
• calls me Nohbdy.

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• Intelligence

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200

• I drove them, all three wailing,
• to the ships, / tied them down
• under their rowing benches, / and called the
  rest All hands
• aboard / come, clear the beach
• and no one taste / the Lotus, or
• you will lose your hope of home.

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200

• Leadership

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• . . . Though I have been detained long by
  Calypso, / loveliest among
• goddesses, who held me / in her
• smooth caves, to be her hearts
• delight, / as Circe of Aeaea, the
• enchantress, / desired me, and
• detained me in her hall. / But in my
• heart I never gave consent.

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• Loyalty

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400

• Cyclops, try some wine. /
• Heres liquor to wash
• down your scraps of men.

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400

• Intelligence

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500

• Now I / chopped out a six-foot
• section of this pole / and set it
• down before my men, who
• scraped it / and when they had
• it smooth, I hewed it
• again / to make a stake with
• a pointed end.

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• Battle Skills

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Relate That Quote to an Epic Characteristic
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100

• I am Laertes son,
• Odysseus.

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• Catalog

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200

• Odysseus goes to the underworld to talk to the
  blind
• prophet, Teiresias

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• Visit to Hades

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• On thrones she seated them, and lounging chairs,
  / while she prepared a meal of cheese and barley
  / and amber honey mixed with Pramnian wine, /
  adding her own vile pinch, to make them lose /
  desire or thought of our dear fatherland. /
  Scarce had they drunk when she flew after them /
  with her long stick and shut them in a pigsty --
  / bodies, voices, heads, and bristles, all /
  swinish now, though minds were still unchanged.

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• Divine Intervention

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400

• Sing in me, Muse, and
• through me tell the story / of that man skilled
  in all ways of contending, / the wanderer,
  harried for years on end, / after he plundered
  the stronghold / on the proud height of Troy.

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• Call to the Muse

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500

• While Odysseus is at
• the Land of the
• Phaeacians, he recalls his wanderings and tells
  Alcinous what happened to him after he left Troy

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500

• Flashback

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Potpourri
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100

• Wife of Odysseus

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• Penelope

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• Friends, / have we never been in danger before
  this? / More fearsome, is it now, than when the
  Cyclops / penned us in his cave? What power he
  had! / Did I not keep my nerve, and use my wits
  to find a way out for us? / . . . / Heads up,
  lads! / We must obey the orders as I give them!

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• Leadership

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300

• Cyclops, eater of guests

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300

• Epithet

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400

• These giant cannibals destroy 11 of Odysseus
• ships

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400

• Laestrygonians

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500

• He is the king in charge of the winds he places
  the stormy winds in a bag so Odysseus can sail
  back to Ithaca

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• King Aeolus

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The Bold, the Brave, and the Boastful
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200

• Odysseus is tied to the mast so he can hear their
  song

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200

• The Sirens

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400

• This king takes Odysseus in as a stranger, and
  Odysseus tells him about his travels

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400

• Alcinous

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600

• Odysseus is warned not to harm his cattle

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600

• Helios

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800

• These characters get three of Odysseus men to
  eat a flower that makes them forget about their
  homeland

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800

• The Lotus Eaters

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1000

• Odysseus lost 72 of his men to this powerful army

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• Cicones

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Epic Characteristic Definitions
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• The character takes a trip to the Underworld

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• Visit to Hades

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• At the beginning of the epic when the poet asks
  for divine inspiration in telling his story

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• Call to the Muse

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• The action of the epic begins in the middle

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• In Medias Res

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• A phrase that describes or renames a person

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• Epithet

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• An overused, descriptive phrase repeated in the
  epic helps the poet memorize his work

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• Stock Phrase

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I Know My Epic Characteristics
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• The story begins with Telemachus going off in
  search of his father who never returned from the
  Trojan War

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• In Medias Res

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• When the young Dawn with fingertips of rose /
  lit up the world.

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• Stock Phrase

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• Cyclops, / if ever mortal man inquire / how you
  were put to shame and blinded, tell him, /
  Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye
  Laertes son, whose homes on Ithaca!

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• Boasting
• Epithet
• Catalog

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• It was our luck to come here here we stand, /
  beholden for your help, or any gifts / you
  giveas custom is to honor strangers.

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• Hospitality Code

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1000

• Odysseus, master of landways and seaways

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• Epithet

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It Could Be Anything
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• This monster has 12 tentacle-like legs, six heads
  on serpent-like necks, and triple, razor-sharp
  fangs kills six of Odysseus men

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• Scylla

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• When Dawn spread out her fingertips of rose

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• Stock Phrase

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• This character is suspicious of Circe and doesnt
  enter her cottage

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• Eurylochus

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• Meanwhile, I crouched with my drawn sword to
  keep / the surging phantoms from the bloody pit /
  till I should know the presence of Teiresias.

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• Bravery

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• This monster swallows sea water, causing a
  dangerous whirlpool

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• Charybdis