The Odyssey Review Game
Acceptable answers include: The Judgment of Paris Helen of Sparta
the Trojan Horse
Homer, 8 th century BC (or ca BC)
the society/civilization he represents
in the midst (or middle) of things
an epic/heroic/Homeric simile
Epithet
Hubris
Calliope
Laertes
hospitality/xenia
Acceptable answers include: Sleepy Dreamy Lazy Forget home
Acceptable answers include: Cyclops, lout, giant, one-eyed, brutish, animalistic, ignorant, uncivilized, shepherd, cheese-maker, man-eater, son of Poseidon
beauty
Acceptable answers: Let Odysseus never reach Ithaca. If he does, let it be many perilous years from now. Let him lose his companions. Let him return under strange sail.
[sacrificial] blood
Circe
Acceptable answers: The Sirens The Wandering Rocks Scylla and Charybdis
Helios/the sun
Zeus; sends a storm that wrecks their ship, killing all but Odysseus.
Wisdom and warfare
To maintain the element of surprise when he approaches Penelope and the suitors
Nostos
dog; 20
dramatic irony
Their bed
Goeth more learnèd.