The Odyssey A Review Game Gods Goddesses and
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The Odyssey A Review Game
Gods, Goddesses, and Mortals, Oh My!
100 Odysseus stays with her for seven years
100 Calypso
200 He raises a storm to destroy Odysseus’ raft when he sails from Calypso’s island
200 Poseidon
300 The goddess of wisdom; she favors Odysseus
300 Athena
400 The king of the gods; he sends down a thunderbolt which destroys Odysseus’ remaining ship and causes his crew to drown
400 Zeus
500 She turns Odysseus’ men into pigs
500 Circe
Cite That Epic Characteristic
100 A character’s background or family tree is listed
100 Catalog
200 A character brags about his past to gain respect
200 Boasting
300 The gods and goddesses get involved in human affairs
300 Divine Intervention
400 The present is interrupted to go back and tell about something that happened earlier
400 Flashback
500 The social code of taking care of guests and warriors
500 Hospitality Code
Is It a Bird or a Plane? No, It’s Odysseus!
100 “‘My name is Nohbdy: mother, father, and friends, / everyone calls me Nohbdy. ’”
100 Intelligence
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. ’”
200 Leadership
300 “. . . Though I have been detained long by Calypso, / loveliest among goddesses, who held me / in her smooth caves, to be her heart’s delight, / as Circe of Aeaea, the enchantress, / desired me, and detained me in her hall. / But in my heart I never gave consent. ”
300 Loyalty
400 “‘Cyclops, try some wine. / Here’s liquor to wash down your scraps of men. ’”
400 Intelligence
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. ”
500 Battle Skills
Relate That Quote to an Epic Characteristic
100 “‘I am Laertes’ son, Odysseus. ’”
100 Catalog
200 Odysseus goes to the underworld to talk to the blind prophet, Teiresias
200 Visit to Hades
300 “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. ”
300 Divine Intervention
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. ”
400 Call to the Muse
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
500 Flashback
Potpourri
100 Wife of Odysseus
100 Penelope
200 “‘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!’”
200 Leadership
300 “‘Cyclops, eater of guests’”
300 Epithet
400 These giant cannibals destroy 11 of Odysseus’ ships
400 Laestrygonians
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
500 King Aeolus
The Bold, the Brave, and the Boastful
200 Odysseus is tied to the mast so he can hear their song
200 The Sirens
400 This king takes Odysseus in as a stranger, and Odysseus tells him about his travels
400 Alcinous
600 Odysseus is warned not to harm his cattle
600 Helios
800 These characters get three of Odysseus’ men to eat a flower that makes them forget about their homeland
800 The Lotus Eaters
1000 Odysseus lost 72 of his men to this powerful army
1000 Cicones
Epic Characteristic Definitions
200 The character takes a trip to the Underworld
200 Visit to Hades
400 At the beginning of the epic when the poet asks for divine inspiration in telling his story
400 Call to the Muse
600 The action of the epic begins in the middle
600 In Medias Res
800 A phrase that describes or renames a person
800 Epithet
1000 An overused, descriptive phrase repeated in the epic; helps the poet memorize his work
1000 Stock Phrase
I Know My Epic Characteristics
200 The story begins with Telemachus going off in search of his father who never returned from the Trojan War
200 In Medias Res
400 “When the young Dawn with fingertips of rose / lit up the world. ”
400 Stock Phrase
600 “‘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 home’s on Ithaca!’”
600 Boasting Epithet Catalog
800 “‘It was our luck to come here; here we stand, / beholden for your help, or any gifts / you give—as custom is to honor strangers. ’”
800 Hospitality Code
1000 “‘Odysseus, master of landways and seaways’”
1000 Epithet
It Could Be Anything
200 This monster has 12 tentaclelike legs, six heads on serpentlike necks, and triple, razorsharp fangs; kills six of Odysseus’ men
200 Scylla
400 “When Dawn spread out her fingertips of rose”
400 Stock Phrase
600 This character is suspicious of Circe and doesn’t enter her cottage
600 Eurylochus
800 “Meanwhile, I crouched with my drawn sword to keep / the surging phantoms from the bloody pit / till I should know the presence of Teiresias. ”
800 Bravery
1000 This monster swallows sea water, causing a dangerous whirlpool
1000 Charybdis
