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The Topic For Today Is… The Odyssey
Part One
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Places
Mortals and
More Mythical
Meetings
Immortals
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Bonus Question: 5000 pts
Topic 1: 200
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Ogygia is the home of this immortal.
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Who is Calypso?
Topic 1: 400
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Helios’ island is named this.
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What is Thrinacia?
Topic 1: 600
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This is the name of the Cicones’ city.
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Ismaraus
Topic 1: 800
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The Acheans are from this country.
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Greece
Topic 1: 1000
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• This is the place Odysseus floats to after
avoiding Charybdis for the second time.
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• What is Calypso’s island (Ogygia).
Topic 2: 200
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• This person is from Ithaca, and he is the main
character of The Odyssey.
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• Who is Odysseus?
Topic 2: 400
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This character is the father of Odysseus.
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Who is Laertes?
Topic 2: 600
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• This is the blind prophet ghost in the Land of
the Dead who forewarned Odysseus of the
dangers ahead.
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• Who is Tiresias?
Topic 2: 800
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This is the wife of Odysseus.
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Who is Penelope?
Topic 2: 1000
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In the land of Phaecia, this king rules.
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Who is King Alcinous.
Topic 3: 200
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I am the father of Circe.
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Who is Helios?
Topic 3: 400
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I am Aeolus God of this.
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What is wind?
Topic 3: 600
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• I am the patron goddess of our hero,
Odysseus.
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• Who is Athena.
Topic 3: 800
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• This goddes holds Odysseus on her island for
one year, turning his men into swine and
giving advice about the dangers ahead, and
this goddess offers him immortality. Give the
names of the two goddesses.
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• Who is Circe? Who is Calypso?
Topic 3: 1000
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• This nymph says to Helios, “They have killed
your kine.”
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• Who is Lampetia?
Topic 4: 200
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• I say, “Nohbdy’s tricked me, Nohbdy’s ruined
me!” Give this character’s exact name.
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• Who is Polyphemus?
Topic 4: 400
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• I say, “Peace, Helios: Shine on among the
gods, shine over mortals in the fields of grain.”
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• Who is Zeus?
Topic 4: 600
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• “Achea’s glory…moor and be merry,” is said by
these sea perils?
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• Who are the sirens?
Topic 4: 800
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• “Better open your lungs to a big sea once for
all than waste to skin and bones on a lonely
island,” is said by this character.
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• Who Eurylochus?
Topic 4: 1000
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• “…and pay in full-or I go down forever to light
the dead men in the underworld,” says this
character.
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• Who is Helios?
Topic 5: 200
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• Before eating the cattle, Odysseus men say
they will do this as an offering to the gods
when they return to Ithaca.
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• What is build a costly temple?
Topic 5: 400
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• This plant saves Odyssues from Charibdis the
second time.
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• What is a fig tree?
Topic 5: 600
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• When Odysseus could tell his men about
Schylla or keep it a secret. This is known as
what because no good can come out of it.
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• What is dilemma?
Topic 5: 800
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• Why doesn’t Odysseus kill the cyclops when
he gets the chance?
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• What is they would not be able to move the
stine door.
Topic 5: 1000
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• The eating of the cattle of Helios could be
agrued as this vs. this.
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• What is fate vs. free will?
Bonus Question:
5000 pts.
• Question:
• In the episode, The Cattle of the Sun God, the
men disobey Odysseus when he is doing this.
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• When he is sleeping.
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• The left side of the ship is called this?
• What is port?
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• These extended comparisons create vivid
connections for the listener.
• What are epic similes?