The Odyssey
study guide answers
Books 1-8
Book 12
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Troy
wisdom, Zeus
sea; Polyphemus
Hermes
Telemachus
suitors
father
Trojan War
Odysseus
Book 9
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Ithaca
Cicones; 72
lotus eaters; forget home
Cyclopes
cave; cheese
Polyphemus; boulder
escape; stick; end
drunk; Nohbdy (nobody)
fire; eye of Polyphemus
Nohbdy; ignored him
sheep; wool
ship; word
with a boulder; Poseidon; curse
Book 10
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Circe’s
pigs; Eurylochus
Hermes; moly
promise
ship; men
one year
must go home
the Land of the Dead
Tiresias
Land of the Dead
dangers; Sirens; Scylla; Charybdis
beeswax; tie
6; whole crew; man
Thrinacia; sun; don’t listen
Zeus; Zeus; thunderbolt
Calypso (Ogygia)
Book 21
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Athena; suitors
beggar
Odysseus’; 12 axe handles
servants
unsuccessful; Odysseus
Antinous; Penelope
Eumaeus
Odysseus; Telemachus
Book 22
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suitors
Antinous
Odysseus
kill
food; wine
Athena; the arrows
Odysseus; Telemachus; all the
Book 23
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Penelope
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move the bed
olive tree; bed
Penelope
Penelope