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| A long narrative poem about a hero. |
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| The story of the Trojan War. |
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| The story of the 10 year journey back home after the Trojan War. |
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| A figure of greatness in an epic. |
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| The epic hero in The Odyssey. |
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| The author of The Iliad and The Odyssey. |
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| Created chaos during a wedding by throwing a golden apple inside. |
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| She fought over the golden apple and promised Paris power. |
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| She fought over the apple and promised Paris to win all wars. |
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| She fought over the golden apple and promised Paris any woman he wanted. |
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| The sheppard boy Zeus had make the choice as to who received the golden apple. |
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| Paris wanted to marry her even though she was already married to Menelaus. |
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| The Greeks declared war on them because Paris kidnapped Helen. |
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| Island off the coast of Greece. Odysseus is the king. |
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| Penelope and Odysseus' son |
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| Odysseus pretends to be so he doesn't have to go to war. |
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| Horse built by the Greeks to pretend their surrender. They hid inside and invaded at night to defeat the Trojans. |
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| Homer asked them to help in telling the story of Odysseus. |
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| The Cicones live here. Many of Odysseus' men were killed. |
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| An army which killed many of Odysseus' men when they enslaved the women, stole their goods, and killed many of their men. |
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| This made anyone who ate it forget about returning home. |
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| The cyclops who eats some of Odysseus' men and traps them in his cave. |
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| This was used to make a spear in order to stab the cyclops in the eye, blinding him. |
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| Where the cyclops lives. The men were trapped there by a huge boulder. |
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| Odysseus and his men used it to get the cyclops drunk so they could stab him. |
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| The cyclops' father who caused destruction for the ship and men. |
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| Used to block the doorway. It was too heavy for Odysseus and his men to move it, so they had to trick the cyclops to escape. |
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| The name Odysseus gave the cyclops in order to trick him. |
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| Animals used by Odysseus and his men to escape the cyclops' cave. |
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| King of the winds. He gave Odysseus a bag of wind. |
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| A sorceress goddess who lived in a palace and kept Odysseus with her for a year. |
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| Odysseus' men were changed into them when they arrived at Circe's palace. |
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| A magic herb which protected Odysseus from Circe's power. |
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| Odysseus' men opened it and blew them off course after they were almost home to Ithaca. |
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| He gave Odysseus the magic herb to protect him from Circe's powers. |
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| A blind prophet Odysseus was supposed to visit in the Underworld. |
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| The land of the dead in mythology. |
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| An offering of sheep made to the dead in the Underworld. |
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| The dead souls of the Underworld who were wandering about. |
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| One of Odysseus' men who died at Circe's palace after he fell off her roof when he was drunk. |
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| A memorial Elpenor asked Odysseus to make him. |
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| These were not to be eaten by Odysseus and his men. |
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| Odysseus' mother who he saw in the Underworld. He did not know she had died since he left for the war. |
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| Beautiful women who lure sailors to their death with their songs. |
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| This was used to plug the men's ears so they would not hear the Sirens singing. |
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| The 6-headed sea monster which ate 6 of Odysseus' men. |
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| The giant whirlpool which destroys any ship passing by. |
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| A narrow waterway Odysseus' ship must travel through which has Scylla on the left and Charybdis on the right. |
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| One of the Achaeans who told the men to eat the cattle. |
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| Told Apollo that the Achaeans had eaten his cattle. |
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| Created storms and blew the men off course leading to their deaths. |
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| This led to the Achaeans made bad decisions which caused some of their deaths. (Opening the bag of winds and eating Apollo's cattle.) |
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| Tiresias' warnings/predictions |
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* Watch out for Poseidon
* Don't eat Apollo's cattle
* Odysseus will arrive home alone and die an old man |
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*The Sirens
* Scylla and Charybdis
The Wandering Rocks
The Cattle of the Sun God |
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| A beautiful nymph who held Odysseus against his will before arriving home. |
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