THE ODYSSEY ACTUAL 2026 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
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✔✔How do Odysseus and his crew avoid being killed by the sirens? - ✔✔The crew
plugs their ears with beeswax, and Odysseus ties himself to the mast.
✔✔Describe Scylla. - ✔✔12 tentacle legs, 6 heads, 3 rows of teeth, always kills 6
people, sits on the side of the cliff
✔✔Describe Charybdis. - ✔✔Sea monster that sits under the water and sucks it in 3
times a day then spews it out, no survival rate
✔✔What monster does Circe advise they steer towards and why? - ✔✔Scylla, because
only 6 men will be killed at a time.
✔✔Where do Helios and his cattle live? - ✔✔Thrinacia
✔✔What does Homer compare the men being killed by Scylla to in an epic simile? -
✔✔Reeling in a fish.
✔✔How does Helios react to the death of his cattle? - ✔✔He calls to Zeus to punish the
crew and threatens to bring the sun to the underworld
✔✔How does Homer open the story? - ✔✔By a prequel/invocation that details what is
going to happen, a prayer to the muses
✔✔Who was the father of the Cyclops? - ✔✔Poseidon
✔✔What tool did Odysseus and his men construct in order to blind the Cyclops? -
✔✔Stake/spear
✔✔The name of the Cyclops that Odysseus and his men face in book 9 is -
✔✔Polyphemus
✔✔What is the first name that Odysseus gave to the Cyclops? - ✔✔Nobody
✔✔How did Odysseus and his men escape from the home of the Cyclops? - ✔✔They
tied themselves to the bottom of sheep
✔✔When Odysseus informs the Cyclops of his true name and tells him that they have
escaped, what ends up happening? - ✔✔The Cyclops prays to Poseidon and curses
Odysseus
, ✔✔Aeoluss gives bags of what to Odysseus and his men? - ✔✔Wind
✔✔What did Circe turn Odysseus' men into? - ✔✔Swine
✔✔What prevented Circe from hurting Odysseus? - ✔✔Magical plants from Hermes
✔✔Where did Circe instruct Odysseus' men to visit? - ✔✔The Land of the Dead
✔✔What person was Odysseus planning to see in the underworld? - ✔✔Tiresias
✔✔What news did Odysseus hear while in the underworld? - ✔✔A prophecy of his
future travels
✔✔Who were the children of Cronos and Rhea? - ✔✔Hestia, Hades, Demeter,
Poseidon, Hera, and Zeus in that order, but swallowed them all as soon as they were
born except Zeus
✔✔Who were the Olympians? - ✔✔People who lived in Mt. Olympus and were
considered Gods
✔✔What did Cronos do to the Olympians? - ✔✔He swallowed them as babies
✔✔What is a myth? - ✔✔To the ancient Greeks,myths were both education and
entertainment. Some myths explained natural events, and others taught mortals about
the ways of the gods.
✔✔odyssey - ✔✔a long journey
✔✔epic hero - ✔✔great leader, setting is board, dies in battle, gods or supernatural, told
in heightened language
✔✔What is an epic? - ✔✔a long story in poem form, the epic is a story of the hero
✔✔How were epics told? - ✔✔Folk epics were oral compositions passed on from story
teller ad has changed over time and literary epics were written compositions that are
unchanged over time
✔✔Odyseeus' homeland is - ✔✔Ithaca
✔✔The Lotus Eaters offered Odysseus and his men - ✔✔Drugs that made them forget
their homeland
✔✔How did Odysseus end up at King Alcinous' feast? - ✔✔He washes up onto the
beach and is found there
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✔✔How do Odysseus and his crew avoid being killed by the sirens? - ✔✔The crew
plugs their ears with beeswax, and Odysseus ties himself to the mast.
✔✔Describe Scylla. - ✔✔12 tentacle legs, 6 heads, 3 rows of teeth, always kills 6
people, sits on the side of the cliff
✔✔Describe Charybdis. - ✔✔Sea monster that sits under the water and sucks it in 3
times a day then spews it out, no survival rate
✔✔What monster does Circe advise they steer towards and why? - ✔✔Scylla, because
only 6 men will be killed at a time.
✔✔Where do Helios and his cattle live? - ✔✔Thrinacia
✔✔What does Homer compare the men being killed by Scylla to in an epic simile? -
✔✔Reeling in a fish.
✔✔How does Helios react to the death of his cattle? - ✔✔He calls to Zeus to punish the
crew and threatens to bring the sun to the underworld
✔✔How does Homer open the story? - ✔✔By a prequel/invocation that details what is
going to happen, a prayer to the muses
✔✔Who was the father of the Cyclops? - ✔✔Poseidon
✔✔What tool did Odysseus and his men construct in order to blind the Cyclops? -
✔✔Stake/spear
✔✔The name of the Cyclops that Odysseus and his men face in book 9 is -
✔✔Polyphemus
✔✔What is the first name that Odysseus gave to the Cyclops? - ✔✔Nobody
✔✔How did Odysseus and his men escape from the home of the Cyclops? - ✔✔They
tied themselves to the bottom of sheep
✔✔When Odysseus informs the Cyclops of his true name and tells him that they have
escaped, what ends up happening? - ✔✔The Cyclops prays to Poseidon and curses
Odysseus
, ✔✔Aeoluss gives bags of what to Odysseus and his men? - ✔✔Wind
✔✔What did Circe turn Odysseus' men into? - ✔✔Swine
✔✔What prevented Circe from hurting Odysseus? - ✔✔Magical plants from Hermes
✔✔Where did Circe instruct Odysseus' men to visit? - ✔✔The Land of the Dead
✔✔What person was Odysseus planning to see in the underworld? - ✔✔Tiresias
✔✔What news did Odysseus hear while in the underworld? - ✔✔A prophecy of his
future travels
✔✔Who were the children of Cronos and Rhea? - ✔✔Hestia, Hades, Demeter,
Poseidon, Hera, and Zeus in that order, but swallowed them all as soon as they were
born except Zeus
✔✔Who were the Olympians? - ✔✔People who lived in Mt. Olympus and were
considered Gods
✔✔What did Cronos do to the Olympians? - ✔✔He swallowed them as babies
✔✔What is a myth? - ✔✔To the ancient Greeks,myths were both education and
entertainment. Some myths explained natural events, and others taught mortals about
the ways of the gods.
✔✔odyssey - ✔✔a long journey
✔✔epic hero - ✔✔great leader, setting is board, dies in battle, gods or supernatural, told
in heightened language
✔✔What is an epic? - ✔✔a long story in poem form, the epic is a story of the hero
✔✔How were epics told? - ✔✔Folk epics were oral compositions passed on from story
teller ad has changed over time and literary epics were written compositions that are
unchanged over time
✔✔Odyseeus' homeland is - ✔✔Ithaca
✔✔The Lotus Eaters offered Odysseus and his men - ✔✔Drugs that made them forget
their homeland
✔✔How did Odysseus end up at King Alcinous' feast? - ✔✔He washes up onto the
beach and is found there
