The Odyssey - Final Exam Study Guide with Correct terms.
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Aeolus - Correct Answer God of the winds
Alcinous - Correct Answer King of the Phaeacians, who offers Odysseus hospitality in his
island kingdom of Scheria. Alcinous hears the story of Odysseus's wanderings and
provides him with safe passage ba...
The Odyssey - Final Exam Study Guide with Correct
terms.
Aeolus - Correct Answer God of the winds
Alcinous - Correct Answer King of the Phaeacians, who offers Odysseus hospitality in his
island kingdom of Scheria. Alcinous hears the story of Odysseus's wanderings and
provides him with safe passage back to Ithaca.
Anticlea - Correct Answer Odysseus' mother; Odysseus meets her in Hades, where he
learned she had died longing for him; he can't embrace her
Aphrodite - Correct Answer Goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus
Arete - Correct Answer Queen of the Phaeacians, wife of Alcinous, and mother of
Nausicaa. Arete is intelligent and influential. Nausicaa tells Odysseus to make his appeal
for assistance to Arete.
Argos - Correct Answer Odysseus' dog
Athena - Correct Answer Daughter of Zeus and goddess of wisdom, purposeful battle,
and the womanly arts. Athena assists Odysseus and Telemachus with divine powers
throughout the epic, and she speaks up for them in the councils of the gods on Mount
Olympus. She often appears in disguise as Mentor, an old friend of Odysseus.
Calypso - Correct Answer The beautiful nymph who falls in love with Odysseus when he
lands on her island-home of Ogygia. Calypso holds him prisoner there for seven years
until Hermes, the messenger god, persuades her to let him go.
Cicones - Correct Answer People of southern Thrace, who lived on the coast of the
Aegean Sea. They were allies of Troy during the Trojan War and their city, Ismarus, was
raided by Odysseus and his crew on their way home after the war.
Circe - Correct Answer The beautiful witch-goddess who transforms Odysseus's crew into
swine when he lands on her island. With Hermes' help, Odysseus resists Circe's powers
and then becomes her lover, living in luxury at her side for a year.
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