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BOOK 1 ANS✔✔


What are three details used to describe Odysseus? ANS✔✔ brave, wise,
warrior, strong, noble, determined to get home


Is Odysseus able to bring his men back safely after the Trojan War? ANS✔✔
No


What happens to his men and why does this happen? ANS✔✔ They eat the
sun god's cattle (helious) they were warned and did NOT listen so they were
shipwrecked and all drowned- except Odysseus


Where is Odysseus when the epic opens? ANS✔✔ Ogygia- calyso's island


Which of the gods does not empathize with Odysseus? ANS✔✔ Posiden


Who pleads to Zeus for the safe return of Odysseus? ANS✔✔ Athena


Why does Poseidon not favor Odysseus? ANS✔✔ Odysseus blind his son
polyphmus (a Cyclops) on eyed giant

, What do the gods in the council decide concerning the fate of Odysseus?
ANS✔✔ They decide to release Odysseus


Who is sent to the island of Ogygia to tell Calypso the decision? ANS✔✔
Hermes


Where is Athena going and why? ANS✔✔ Telemachus- Go to pylos to see
king nestor to see if he knows anything about Odysseus- then go off to Sparta
to see king Menelaus to see if he knows anything about Odysseus- be a man!
Grow up! Go find info


How does she disguise herself? ANS✔✔ Mentes - (mentor) wise older person


What is the situation back at home of Odysseus? ANS✔✔ It is plagued with
suitors eating and drinking all of his food and wine - they also are trying to
marry the queen


What does "Mentes" tell Telemachus regarding the fate of Odysseus?
ANS✔✔ He is alive - not dead!!


What are Athena's instructions to Telemachus? ANS✔✔ Go to pylos to see
king nestor to see if he knows anything about Odysseus- then go off to Sparta
to see king Menelaus to see if he knows anything about Odysseus- be a man!
Grow up! Go find info


Who is the faithful old servant at the home of Odysseus? ANS✔✔ Eurycleia

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