Odyssey Review Parts 1 - 2 College Prep

An epic simile is a ____________________________.

____________________ is more a symbol of "brains over brawn" as shown in The Odyssey.

While Odysseus was away, _______ invaded his home and his lands.

Who were Scylla and Charybdis?

Deus ex machina means ___________________.

_______________________ represents self-control and temptation.

Hubris is best described as ____________________.

Odysseus's journey home from Troy lasts ______ years.

Shortly after he arrives, Odysseus's old dog, _______, dies of old age happy that his master is home.

The Odyssey is an allegory which means ____________________.

The Lotus Eaters merely want to share the _______________ and get the men high.

Xenia is one of the important tenets of Greek thought; it means

To this day, only _______ has ever hears the Song of the Sirens and lived to tell of it.

Throughout The Odyssey, it is the god _________ who thwarts his journey home and makes Odysseus suffer greatly.

When passing the Island of the Sirens, Odysseus's men put ______ in their ears to evade the song.

An epithet is a ______________________.

Athena disguises Odysseus as a __________ so that he can discover who are his friends and who are his enemies on Ithaca.

Penelope has all of the suitors engage in a _________ shooting contest to win her hand in marriage.

Odysseus blinds the cyclops, ___________, and tells the brute his own name is _________________.

Circe turns all of Odysseus's men into ______________.

An epic is ____________________.

An allusion is a ________________________.