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The Odyssey

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.

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The Odyssey

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  1. The Odyssey A Review Game

  2. Gods, Goddesses, and Mortals, Oh My!

  3. 100 Odysseus stays with her for seven years

  4. 100 Calypso

  5. 200 He raises a storm to destroy Odysseus’ raft when he sails from Calypso’s island

  6. 200 Poseidon

  7. 300 The goddess of wisdom; she favors Odysseus

  8. 300 Athena

  9. 400 The king of the gods; he sends down a thunderbolt which destroys Odysseus’ remaining ship and causes his crew to drown

  10. 400 Zeus

  11. 500 She turns Odysseus’ men into pigs

  12. 500 Circe

  13. Cite That Epic Characteristic

  14. 100 A character’s background or family tree is listed

  15. 100 Catalog

  16. 200 A character brags about his past to gain respect

  17. 200 Boasting

  18. 300 The gods and goddesses get involved in human affairs

  19. 300 Divine Intervention

  20. 400 The present is interrupted to go back and tell about something that happened earlier

  21. 400 Flashback

  22. 500 The social code of taking care of guests and warriors

  23. 500 Hospitality Code

  24. Is It a Bird or a Plane?No, It’s Odysseus!

  25. 100 “‘My name is Nohbdy: mother, father, and friends, / everyone calls me Nohbdy.’”

  26. 100 Intelligence

  27. 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.’”

  28. 200 Leadership

  29. 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.”

  30. 300 Loyalty

  31. 400 “‘Cyclops, try some wine. / Here’s liquor to wash down your scraps of men.’”

  32. 400 Intelligence

  33. 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.”

  34. 500 Battle Skills

  35. Relate That Quote to an Epic Characteristic

  36. 100 “‘I am Laertes’ son, Odysseus.’”

  37. 100 Catalog

  38. 200 Odysseus goes to the underworld to talk to the blind prophet, Teiresias

  39. 200 Visit to Hades

  40. 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.”

  41. 300 Divine Intervention

  42. 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.”

  43. 400 Call to the Muse

  44. 500 While Odysseus is at the Land of the Phaeacians, he recalls his wanderings and tells Alcinous what happened to him after he left Troy

  45. 500 Flashback

  46. Potpourri

  47. 100 Wife of Odysseus

  48. 100 Penelope

  49. 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!’”

  50. 200 Leadership

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