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Odyssey
flash cards to help with the vocabulary and events in the odyssey
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9th Grade
03/07/2012

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Who is Odysseus?
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King of Ithica
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Who is Homer?
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the writer of the Odyssey and the Iliad
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who is alcinous?
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King of the Phaeacians
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Who is Calypso?
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sea goddess who loved Odysseus
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Who is circe?
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enchantress who helped Odysseus
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who is Zeus?
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King of the gods.
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who is Apollo?
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God of Music, poetry, and medicine
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who is Agamemmnon?
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King and leader of greek forces
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who is Poseidon?
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God of the sea and earthquakes.
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who is Athena?
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Goddess of wisdom, skills, and warfare
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who Polyphemus?
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the cyclops who imprisioned Odysseus and his men
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who is Laertes?
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Odysseus's father
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Who is Cronus?
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Titan ruler of the universe; father of zeus
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who is Perimedes?
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member of Odysseus's crew
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who is Eurylochus?
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another member of Odysseus's crew
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who is Tiresias?
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blind prophet who advised Odysseus
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who is Persephone?
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wife of hades
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who is Telemachus?
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Odysseus's and Penelope's son
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who are the sirens?
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creatures whose songs lure sailors to their destructions
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who is Scylla?
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sea monsters of gray rock
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who is Charybdis?
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enormous and dangerous whirlpool
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who is Lampetia?
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a nymph
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who is Hermes?
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herald and messenger of the gods
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who is Eumaeus?
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old swineherd and friend of Odysseus
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who is Penelope?
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Odysseus's wife
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who is Eurymachus?
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suitor
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who is Amphinomus?
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a suitor
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who is Antious?
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leader among the suitors
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who is Eurynome?
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housekeeper for penelope
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what was the group of people that odysseus and his men first ran into?
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the cicones
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what did odysseus and his men do to the cyclops that trapped them in his cave?
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the gouged out his eye with a sharp stick
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what did odysseus and his men find in the cyclops's cave?
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kids, and lambs
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what did odysseus order his men to do when they came across the sirens?
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he ordered them to shun their song, and to tie him to the main mast and not let him go untill it was safe.
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what do the men eat that cuases them to forget home and not want to leave
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the lotus flower
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