From Odyssey: Book 1 and Book 9 Flashcard

Front

Speaker in the invocation

Back

Homer (the poet)

Front

Epic

Back

Long narrative poem about gods or heroes

Front

Epic hero characteristics

Back

Great leader, noble/divine birth, brave & athletic

Front

Athena

Back

goddess of wisdom

Front

Technique to indicate past events in epics

Back

Flashbacks

Front

Odysseus' first stop after the war

Back

Ismarus/Ciccones

Front

Odysseus' hometown

Back

Ithaca

Front

Cicones' army compared to spring leaves

Back

Numerous

Front

Odysseus' son

Back

Telemachus

Front

Effect of Lotus flower on Odysseus' men

Back

Unmotivated to go home