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 Odysseuss 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 Odysseuss men into pigs

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500

• Circe

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Cite That Epic Characteristic
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• A characters background or
• family tree is listed

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• Catalog

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200

• A character brags about
• his past to gain respect

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• Boasting

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

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• Divine Intervention

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

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• Flashback

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

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• Hospitality Code

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Is It a Bird or a Plane?No, Its Odysseus!
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• My name is Noman aye, and Noman my father and
  my mother called me and all my comrades.

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• Intelligence

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We are not, friends, untried in danger. This
new peril that lies before us is no greater than
when the Cyclops caught and held us fast in his
hollow cave. Yet we found escape . . . I think
we shall live to tell the tale of this day too.
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• Leadership

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I put on my glorious armor and I grasped two
spears in my hand and took my station on the
decked prow, for there I thought I first should
see appear this Scylla.
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• Bravery

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• Here Cyclops, take this wine, and drink after
  your feast of human flesh, and learn how good a
  drink we kept hidden within our ship.

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• Intelligence

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• So there I took my stand by it (a large piece of
  olive wood) and cut a fathoms length away, and
  this I gave my men and bade them shape it. They
  made it smooth, while I stood by and brought it
  to a point and charred it in a glowing fire.

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• Battle Skills

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Relate That Quote to an Epic Characteristic
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• I am Odysseus, great Laertes son.

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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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• Zeus now thundered from on high and hurled his
  bolt upon the ship.

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• Divine Intervention

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• Tell me the tale, Muse, of that man of many
  changes, he who went wandering so far when he
  had plundered Troys sacred citadel.

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• Call to the Muse

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• 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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• Flashback

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Potpourri
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• Wife of Odysseus

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• Penelope

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• Creator of The Odyssey

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• Homer

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• Homers first epic about the Trojan War

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• The Iliad

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• These giant cannibals destroy 11 of Odysseuss
  ships

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• Laestrygonians

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

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• The Sirens

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

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• Alcinous

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• Odysseus is warned not to harm his cattle

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• Helios

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• These characters get three of Odysseuss 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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• But when the dawn came, early-born and
  rosy-fingered.

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• Stock Phrase

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• If, O Cyclops, a mortal man shall ever ask you
  how it befell your eye was blinded so hideously,
  then answer thus it was Odysseus blinded you,
  taker of Troy, Laertes son who dwells in
  Ithaca.

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• Boasting
• Epithet
• Catalog

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• Now we come hither before your knees to pray
  you give welcome to your guests and grant us such
  gifts as guests should have.

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• Hospitality Code

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• Odysseus, taker of Troy

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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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• A long, narrative poem about a superhuman hero

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• Epic

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• The great Greek warrior killed when a poisoned
  arrow hit him in his weak spot

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Achilles
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• A traveling singer of tales

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• Rhapsode

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• This monster swallows sea water, causing a
  dangerous whirlpool

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• Charybdis