The Odyssey Review

Charybdis is a floating, twelve-tentacled beast who takes one man for each of her six heads.

Odysseus' great bow symbolizes all of the following EXCEPT

He'll blast you a thunderbolt if you're not careful

Xenia means hospitality

Odysseus is a hero, but his one major flaw is

Proud father to our wandering hero

"Your heart is hard as flint and never changes" is an example of

I doubt that this guy said "Doh!" but said a lot--The Odyssey--for example.

At the end of the epic, Zeus intervenes and the cycle of violence is broken.

These females will lure you to their island...and you'll never leave.

Argos (the dog) is the first to recognize Odysseus when he returns home.

Ephestus drinks blood and speaks the truth.

Scylla is the Goddess of Wisdom.

Odysseus is from the island of Ithaca.

The Odyssey starts in "medias res" which means the middle.

Homer uses all of the following literary devices in The Odyssey EXCEPT:

If you take flowers from these people, you'll lose all ambition and any memory of home.

Would you wait for someone for twenty years? She did.

Persephone is Odysseus' mentor.

Calypso can't believe our hero would rather go home to his old wife than be immortal with her

Charybdis is a whirlpool with teeth.

He doesn't even know his dad, but he's looking for him.

He has bad manners, a hearty appetite, and lost his only eye.

She'll welcome you in, feed you, then turn you into swine.

Although he is flawed, Odysseus is hero and King of Ithaca.

The Odyssey's setting includes all of the following locations EXCEPT:

Penelope knows Odysseus is her true husband because...

Dramatic Irony is when the reader knows something the characters don't.

Argos is a faithful old hound who sleeps on a pile of poo.

"When the young Dawn with fingertips of rose..." is an example of

Calypso lives on the island of

With winged-feet, he delivers messages and the occassional antidote.

Pick on this boy and you might just find yourself on stormy seas or possibly an earthquake.

Helios has magical cattle; he's also the lord of high noon.

All of the following are found in an epic EXCEPT:

This Phaeacian king gives our hero the ship he needs to finally get home.