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The Odyssey Part 1 Questions And Answers Latest Update
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The Odyssey Part 1 Questions And Answers Latest Update
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The Odyssey Part 1 QuestionsAnd Answers Latest Update
To help him tell the story of Odysseus ANS✔✔ What does Homer ask the
Muse to help him with in the first line?
Epithet ANS✔✔ An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality
characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.
The Island of Scheria ANS✔✔ Where does Odysseus first find landfall?
King Alcinous / Nausicca (daughter) ANS✔✔ Who welcomes Odysseus?
Allies of the Trojans from Ismarus ANS✔✔ Who are the Cicones?
72 ANS✔✔ How many of Odysseus's men do they kill? (Cicones)
A shaggy mountain reared in solitude ANS✔✔ What metaphor does
Odysseus use in line 92 to describe the Cyclops?
Epic (Homeric Simile) ANS✔✔ Comparison of epic events to easy,
understandable, every day events
Wine ANS✔✔ When Polyphemus returns, what does Odysseus offer him?
, They need his help to get out of the cave ANS✔✔ Why doesn't Odysseus kill
Polyphemus?
Taunts Polyphemus ANS✔✔ What does Odysseus do once he is back on his
ship?
Harmless; Beautiful; Enchanting; Beautiful Voice ANS✔✔ What do they
think of Circe when they first see her?
Euryloches ANS✔✔ Who did not go into Circes home?
- Sacrifice a Heifer
- Burn bits on an altar
- Sacrifice a black lamb
- Let blood stream into pit ANS✔✔ What does Odysseus do that will allow
him to call up the dead?
1. Kill Suitors
2. Go overland on foot
3. Take an oar
4. Make a sacrifice to Poseidon ANS✔✔ What four steps does Teiresias
recommend Odysseus do when he returns home?
She warns that if they eat the cows it will be the death of his ship and crew
ANS✔✔ What does Circe warn will be the death of Odysseus's crew?
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