Odyssey Part 1 Characters Practice Questions and Answers 100% Pass

Odyssey Part 1 Characters Practice Questions and Answers 100% Pass Odysseus - Correct Answer ️️ -(main character) Son of Laertes and Anticleia, husband of Penelope and father of Telemachus. A cunning, shrewd and eloquent hero. Came up with the idea of the Trojan horse which led the Greeks to victory against Troy. "Man of many wiles". Zeus - Correct Answer ️️ -king of the gods, plays the role of controlling the weather in the Odyssey Kikones/Maron - Correct Answer ️️ -1) Odysseus's men raided the island, this tribe's reinforcements attacked them and killed many of them 2) Odysseus received a winebowl and fiery brandy from this man Lotos-Eaters - Correct Answer ️️ -group of ppl who ate lotos leaves to stay drugged and oblivious to reality, a few of O's men stay with them Polyphemus - Correct Answer ️️ -resides on Cyclops' island, a cyclops who imprisons O's men and eats a few of them before O blinds him and escapes with the remainder of his men. Poseidon, father of P, hates O for the rest of the Odyssey because he blinded P Aiolus - Correct Answer ️️ -from island of Ailous, gives Odysseus a bag of winds to help him on his journey home, won't help them a second time b/c he refuses to go against the other gods, who are surely against O