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O's journey
Oddessey
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English
9th Grade
04/27/2010

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Nohbdy
Definition
What name does O reveal to the Cyclops?
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Polyphemus
Definition
What is the name of the Cyclops that O blinds?
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It has been wrecked
Definition
When the cyclops asks about his ship, what does O tell him?
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Poseidon
Definition
What is the name of the father of the Cyclops blinded by O?
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The cyclops must remain alive to remove his cavern stone door
Definition
Why does O refrain from killing the Cyclops?
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He says that nobody has tricked him
Definition
Why do none of the other Cyclops come when Polyphemus cries for help?
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His boasts to the Cyclops cause boulders to be thrown at their ships; he gives the cyclops his name
Definition
What does O do that place the men in danger as they are leaving the land of the cyclops?
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a. Return to a bitter home
b. Doesn't come home in his own boat
c. Far be the day
d. Lose all of his companions
e. Dark the years
Definition
What are the conditions of the blinded cyclops' curse?
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Penelope
Definition
What is the name of O's wife?
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Laertes
Definition
What is the name of O's father?
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Telemachus
Definition
What is the name of O's son?
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Antinous
Definition
What is the name of the leaders of the suitors?
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to take years to weave a burial shroud for Laertes
Definition
What is the wife of O's plan to stall the suitors?
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her maids
Definition
O's wife plan to stall the suitors is stalled by who?
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Antinous
Definition
After O fires an arrow through 12 ax heads, who is the first suitor that he kills?
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She makes him appear younger and more handsome
Definition
After killing the suitors and before meeting his wife, what does Athena do to O?
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he knows that his wedding bed is unmovable b/c one of the bedposts is an olive tree still in the ground
Definition
What does O know that reveals to his wife that he is truly home?
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Aeolus
Definition
Who is the king of the winds?
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Aeolia
Definition
What is the name of the land of the king of the winds?
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Laestrygonians
Definition
What is the name of the race of cannibals who destroy all but one of One of O's ships?
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Aeaea
Definition
What is the name of the island where the sorceress lives that turns O's men into swine?
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Circe
Definition
Who is the female enchantress that turns O's men into swine?
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Tiresias
Definition
Who is the blind prophet found in the underworld?
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Elpenor
Definition
Who is the dead crewman of O who asks for a funeral because he dies in a drunken fall?
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anticlea
Definition
Who is O's mother that he sees in the underworld?
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Sirens
Definition
Who are the females who use songs to lure sailors to their deaths?
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Scylla
Definition
What is the name of the 6 headed monster?
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Charybdis
Definition
What is the name of the whirlpool?
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Charybdis
Definition
What destructive monster does O choose to avoid?
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Helios
Definition
Who is the sun God w/ special attle?
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Lampetia
Definition
Who is the sea nymph htta tells the sun god that O's men ate his cattle?
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take the sun to the underworld?
Definition
What does the sun god threaten to do if O's men are not punished?
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9 days
Definition
How many days does O spend in that water after his ship has been destroyed?
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rebirth
Definition
what is spending time in the sea symbolic of?
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Phaeacia
Definition
Before Odysseus immediately returns to Ithaca, he is in
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Eumaeus
Definition
what is the name of O's swineherd
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Argus
Definition
What is the name of O’s dog
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