Odyssey Jeopardy 1 pt Answer from People People Places God(esse)s Customs Events He gives Telémakhos evidence Odysseus may still be alive. Final Jeopardy 1 pt Question from People 2 pt Answer from People Who is Menelaus? Odysseus s men are doomed for doing this. 2 pt Question from People 3 pt Answer from People What is killing the Cattle of the Sun (AKA Lord Helios)? She is the most faithful servant of Odysseus s household. Laërtes originally purchased her for 20 oxen and valued her as a wife, but he never slept with her so as to keep the peace with his own wife.
3 pt Question from People 4 pt Answer from People Who is Eurýkleia? He often speaks for Penélopê s suitors and criticizes Telémakhos and Penélopê before the Ithakan assembly. 4 pt Question from People 5 pt Answer from People Who is Antínoös? As is reported several times, he conspires with Klytemnestra to kill her husband, Agamemnon. 5 pt Question from People 1 pt Answer from Places Who is Aigísthos? The place Telemakhus visits when he journeys to see Menelaus.
1 pt Question from Places 2 pt Answer from Places What is Sparta? In the blind Phaiákian minstrel s song, this where Hephaistos catches Arês and Aphroditê in a web of chains. 2 pt Question from Places 3 pt Answer from Places What is in bed (or committing adultery)? Ruled by Nestor, this island is Telémakhos s first stop on his journey to inquire about Odysseus s fate. 3 pt Question from Places 4 pt Answer from Places What is Pylos? Phaiákia
4 pt Question from Places 5 pt Answer from Places What is the land ruled by Nausicaa s parents (AKA Arêtê a descendant of Poseidon and Alkínoös )? Ogýgia. 5 pt Question from Places What is the name of Kalypso s Island? 1 pt Answer from god(esse)s She has held Odysseus captive for years when The Odyssey begins in medeas res. 1 pt Question from god(esse)s 2 pt Answer from god(esse)s Who is Kalypso? These three gods are responsible for Odysseus s release by the braided nymph.
2 pt Question from god(esse)s 3 pt Answer from god(esse)s Who are Athena (she asks Zeus) Hermes (he visits Kalypso) Zeus (he sends Hermes) This deity impersonates Mentês, Mentor, and even Telémakhos to facilitate Telémakhos s travel to Sparta 3 pt Question from god(esse)s 4 pt Answer from god(esse)s Who is Athena? His daughter Eidothea disguises Menelaus and his men as seals so they can capture her father, who works for Poseidon. He then changes into a lion, serpent, leopard, board, water, and a tree before surrendering. 4 pt Question from god(esse)s Who is Proteus (the prototypical shapeshifter)? 5 pt Answer from god(esse)s A god we heard about in The Iliad, he made the silver bowl Menelaus gives to Telémakhus.
5 pt Question from god(esse)s 1 pt Answer from Customs Who is Hephaistos? These are three different ways in which the mortals in The Odyssey honor the gods. 1 pt Question from Customs 2 pt Answer from Customs What are some three aspects of the following: Spilling and drinking water mixed with wine Sacrificing a heifer (horns gilded) that was never yoked or driven, after strewing barley on the ground, and thereafter eating the cooked meat and entrails Slicing bulls tongues and flinging these with wine into the fire These are three things you do for your guests, often before you even ask who they are, if you are a good host. 2 pt Question from Customs What are three of the following: Feed them Give them wine Give them a good comfortable chair Entertain them with music Receive them whether you have guests or not Give them a good bed Give them great gifts Give them drugged wine to ease their minds 3 pt Answer from Customs These are the traditional food and drink served a visiting god.
3 pt Question from Customs What are ambrosia and nectar? 4 pt Answer from Customs When Odysseus encounters Nausicaa, he is naked, swollen, and streaked with brine. He therefore debates how to greet her. He considers these two options. 4 pt Question from Customs 5 pt Answer from Customs What is grasping her knees (as a suppliant) or speaking to her in honeyed speech? Menalaus gets into trouble with Poseidon for not sacrificing enough of these units, each of which equal 100 oxen. 5 pt Question from Customs 1 pt Answer from Events What is a hekatomb? Athena sends Nausicaa to do this so that she will discover Odysseus naked and shipwrecked on shore.
1 pt Question from Events 2 pt Answer from Events What is the laundry? This fact about Telémakhos s appearance prevents Menelaus from recognizing Telémakhos when he visits Sparta 2 pt Question from Events 3 pt Answer from Events What is the fact that Telémakhos was a newborn baby when Menelaus last visited Ithaka? Menelaus gives this explanation for why he can t enjoy the spoils he got following the sack of Troy. 3 pt Question from Events 4 pt Answer from Events What is being swept off course for seven years, forcing him to travel to Libya, Sidon, and Arabia? Saved by Poseidon from the ocean despite Athena s anger, he offended Poseidon when he bragged that his rescue had thwarted the gods will and the sea.
4 pt Question from Events 5 pt Answer from Events Who is Aîas? (Q who is it in the film? Although she has held him captive, Kalypso gives Odysseus these things to make his return home easier (name four). 5 pt Question from Events What are Tools (adze, axhead, auger) Cloth (for a sail) A bath Wine Meat and other food Some wind Final Jeopardy: Epic Conventions How many points will you wager? Final Jeopardy Answer Final Jeopardy Question What are epic games? This epic convention occurs on the common in Phaiákia just before Odysseus finishes the last leg of his journey.