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The Odyssey is an ____ poem.
The setting for this story is __.
The protagonist and ___ hero is __.
The antagonist of the story is __.
Odysseus is the favorite of the goddess __.
He is also the king of the city-state of __.
The __ was his idea and the reason why the Greeks won
the Trojan War.
Three ways that other characters describe Odysseus is:
1. _______________________________
2. _______________________________
3. _______________________________
Timeline: List the obstacles that Odysseus and his men
face in the order that they occur:
1. The __ War
2. The Island of the Cicones
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What did Odysseus do wrong in his dealings with the
Cicones? Explain. ___________________________
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Polyphemus is a ______ and the son of the god _____.
Odysseus _____ Polyphemus and he and his men
escape by clinging to the bottom of _____.
What did Odysseus do wrong in his dealings during his
time on Cyclops Island? ___________________
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3. The land of the Lotus Eaters
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4. _____________________
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5. King Aeolus of wind and the bags of wind.
6. The Laestrygone Cannibals.
Circe is a _____ who turns Odysseus’s men into _____.
7. _____________________
He saves them using a magic plant called _____.
8. Hades (Cerberus, Tiresias, etc.)
Circe is impressed by his _____. She also says he
9. ______________________
10. ______________________
must journey to _____ before going home. He stays
11. ______________________
with Circe for _____ even though he has a _____ at
12. Thrinacia (Cattle of the Sun God)
home.
13. ______________________
14. ______________________
# of Men Remaining: __________
What did Odysseus do wrong in his dealings during his
time on Circe’s Island? ___________________
What character flaw does Odysseus demonstrate in his
dealings with Scylla? What did he do wrong? Explain
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In _____ Odysseus encounters the guard dog Cerberus
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who has many _____.
Tiresias the Prophet warns Odysseus not to eat the sun
god’s _____.
The sirens _____ to lure sailors to their island, where
they crash their ships on the rocks.
On Helios’ Island, Odysseus and his men eat the ____
god’s cattle. This angers ____ who destroys his ship.
Odysseus washes up on the shore of ____ ‘s island
where he remains trapped for ____ years while she
tries to convince him to become her ____.
The gods convince Calypso to let him go, and he travels
Odysseus men tie him to the ______ so he can hear
to the island of the ____. He tells King ____ his
their beautiful _____.
story, who helps him return home.
What character flaw does Odysseus demonstrate in his
dealings with the sirens? Explain. _______________
Odysseus’s wife is named ____ and his son is named
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____. Since Odysseus has been gone, his house has
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been overrun by ____ who want to marry ____.
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She says she will marry them when she is finished
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____ Odysseus’s funeral shroud.
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Charybdis is a ____ in the ocean.
With ____ ‘s help, Odysseus wins an ____ contest and
____ all the men in his home.
Scylla is a multi-____ monster who eats ____ of
Odysseus’s men. He was warned not to try to ____
Scylla, but he does anyway.
# of Men Remaining: _________
# of Men Remaining:______