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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.
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The Odyssey A Review Game
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
300 Athena
400 The king of the gods; he sends down a thunderbolt which destroys Odysseus’ remaining ship and causes his crew to drown
400 Zeus
500 She turns Odysseus’ men into pigs
500 Circe
100 A character’s background or family tree is listed
100 Catalog
200 A character brags about his past to gain respect
200 Boasting
300 The gods and goddesses get involved in human affairs
300 Divine Intervention
400 The present is interrupted to go back and tell about something that happened earlier
400 Flashback
500 The social code of taking care of guests and warriors
500 Hospitality Code
100 “‘My name is Nohbdy: mother, father, and friends, / everyone calls me Nohbdy.’”
100 Intelligence
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.”
300 Loyalty
400 “‘Cyclops, try some wine. / Here’s liquor to wash down your scraps of men.’”
400 Intelligence
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.”
500 Battle Skills
100 “‘I am Laertes’ son, Odysseus.’”
100 Catalog
200 Odysseus 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.”
300 Divine 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.”
400 Call to the Muse
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
500 Flashback
100 Wife 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
