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The Odyssey. A Review Game. Gods, Goddesses, and Mortals, Oh My!. 100. Odysseus stays with her for seven years. 100. Calypso. 200. He raises a storm to destroy Odysseus’ raft when he sails from Calypso’s island. 200. Poseidon. 300. The goddess of wisdom; she favors Odysseus. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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A Review Game
The Odyssey
Gods, Goddesses, and Mortals, Oh My!
100
Odysseus stays with
her for seven years
100Calypso
200He raises a storm to destroy Odysseus’ raft when he sails
from Calypso’sisland
200Poseidon
300The goddess of
wisdom; she favors Odysseus
300Athena
400The king of the gods; he
sends down a thunderbolt which destroys Odysseus’ remaining ship and causes
his crew to drown
400Zeus
500She turns
Odysseus’ men into pigs
500Circe
Cite That Epic Characteristic
100
A character’s background or
family tree is listed
100Catalog
200A character brags
abouthis past to gain
respect
200Boasting
300The gods and goddesses
get involved in human affairs
300Divine Intervention
400The present is
interrupted to go back and tell about
something that happened earlier
400Flashback
500The social code of
taking care of guests and
warriors
500Hospitality Code
Is It a Bird or a Plane?
No, It’s Odysseus!
100“‘My name is Nohbdy:
mother, father, and
friends, / everyone calls me Nohbdy.’”
100Intelligence
200“I drove them, all three wailing, to the ships, / tied them down under their rowing benches, / and called the rest: ‘All hands
aboard; / come, clear the beach and no one taste / the Lotus, or
you will lose your hope of home.’”
200
Leadership
300“. . . Though I have been detained long by Calypso, / loveliest among goddesses, who held me / in her smooth caves, to be her heart’s delight, / as Circe of Aeaea, the enchantress, / desired me, and
detained me in her hall. / But in my heart I never gave consent.”
300Loyalty
400“‘Cyclops, try some
wine. / Here’s liquor to washdown your scraps of
men.’”
400Intelligence
500“Now I / chopped out a six-foot section of this pole / and set it
down before my men, who scraped it; / and when they had
it smooth, I hewed it again / to make a stake with
a pointed end.”
500Battle Skills
Relate That Quote to an Epic
Characteristic
100“‘I am Laertes’ son,
Odysseus.’”
100Catalog
200Odysseus goes to the underworld to talk to the blind
prophet, Teiresias
200
Visit to Hades
300“On thrones she seated them, and lounging
chairs, / while she prepared a meal of cheese and barley / and amber honey mixed
with Pramnian wine, / adding her own vile pinch, to make them lose / desire or thought
of our dear fatherland. / Scarce had they drunk when she flew after them / with her
long stick and shut them in a pigsty -- / bodies, voices, heads, and bristles, all / swinish now, though minds were still
unchanged.”
300Divine Intervention
400“Sing in me, Muse, and
through me tell the story / of that man skilled in all ways
of contending, / the wanderer, harried for years on end, / after he plundered
the stronghold / on the proud height of Troy.”
400Call to the Muse
500While Odysseus is at
the Land of thePhaeacians, he recalls
his wanderings and tells Alcinous what happened to him after he left Troy
500Flashback
Potpourri
100Wife of Odysseus
100
Penelope
200“‘Friends, / have we never been
in danger before this? / More fearsome, is it now, than when the Cyclops / penned us in his
cave? What power he had! / Did I not keep my nerve, and use my wits to find a way out for us? / . .
. / Heads up, lads! / We must obey the orders as I give them!’”
200
Leadership
300“‘Cyclops, eater of
guests’”
300Epithet
400These giant cannibals
destroy 11 of Odysseus’ships
400Laestrygonians
500He is the king in charge of the winds; he places the stormy winds in a bag so Odysseus can
sail back to Ithaca
500King Aeolus
The Bold, the Brave, and the
Boastful
200
Odysseus is tied to the mast so he can
hear their song
200
The Sirens
400This king takes
Odysseus in as a stranger, and Odysseus
tells him about his travels
400Alcinous
600Odysseus is warned
not to harm his cattle
600Helios
800These characters get three of Odysseus’ men to eat a flower that makes them forget about their
homeland
800The Lotus Eaters
1000Odysseus lost 72 of his men to this powerful
army
1000Cicones
Epic Characteristic
Definitions
200The character takes
a trip to the Underworld
200
Visit to Hades
400At the beginning of the epic when the
poet asks for divine inspiration in telling
his story
400
Call to the Muse
600The action of the epic begins in the
middle
600
In Medias Res
800A phrase that describes or
renames a person
800
Epithet
1000An overused,
descriptive phrase repeated in the
epic; helps the poet memorize his work
1000
Stock Phrase
I Know My Epic Characteristics
200The story begins with Telemachus going off in search of his father who never returned from the Trojan War
200
In Medias Res
400“When the young
Dawn with fingertips of rose / lit up the world.”
400
Stock Phrase
600“‘Cyclops, / if ever mortal
man inquire / how you were put to shame and
blinded, tell him, / Odysseus, raider of cities,
took your eye: Laertes’ son, whose home’s on
Ithaca!’”
600BoastingEpithetCatalog
800“‘It was our luck to come here; here we stand, / beholden for
your help, or any gifts / you give—as custom is to honor strangers.’”
800Hospitality Code
1000“‘Odysseus, master
of landways and seaways’”
1000
Epithet
It Could Be Anything
200This monster has 12 tentacle-like legs, six heads on serpent-like
necks, and triple, razor-sharp fangs; kills six of
Odysseus’ men
200
Scylla
400“When Dawn spread out her fingertips of
rose”
400Stock Phrase
600This character is
suspicious of Circe and doesn’t enter her
cottage
600Eurylochus
800“Meanwhile, I crouched with my drawn sword to
keep / the surging phantoms from the
bloody pit / till I should know the presence of
Teiresias.”
800Bravery
1000This monster swallows sea water, causing a dangerous whirlpool
1000
Charybdis