Odyssey Review + Hero's Journey Explored

​The Odyssey: Exploring Odysseus and his epic journey.

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​What character traits does Oddysseus have?

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​Review 1

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Odysseus' aging father, who lives on a farm in Itaca.

• Telemachus

• Polythemus

• Poseidon

• Laertes

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One of the Cyclops who imprisions Odysseus and his crew and tries to eat them. Odysseus blinds him and angers his father, Poseidon.

• Homer

• Polythemus

• Agaenmnon

• Tiresias

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Wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus.

• Circe

• Calypso

• Athena

• Penelope

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The protagonist of The Odyssey. He fought at the Battle of Troy and struggles to return home to Ithaca.

• Odysseus

• Eumacas

• Poseidon

• Telemachus

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Odysseus' son.

• Arete

• Alcious

• Telemachus

• Tiresias

Hero's Journey

​Hero's Journey (Monomyth) Is a common story structure

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​Review 2

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God of the sea.

• Zeus

• Circe

• Athena

• Poseidon

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King of the gods and men.

• Poseidon

• Athena

• Zeus

• Polythemus

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Helps Odysseus several times throughout his journey

• Teiresias

• Helios

• Zeus

• Athena

• Scylla

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The beautiful witch-goddess who transforms Odysseus' crew into swine.

• Calypso

• Circe

• Athena

• Penelope

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Daughter of Zeus and goddess of wisdom, purposeful battle and thewomanly arts.

• Athena

• Penelope

• Calypso

• Nausica

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At the start of the story, according to Telemachus, what is the problem in Ithaca?

• The people are starving.

• The country is on the verge of a civil war.

• The palace has been overrun by suitors who refuse to leave.

• Thieves keep stealing the livestock.

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The Odyssey tells the story of Odyssey's long journey home after the Trojan War and what happens to him and his men on the way home.
They are trying to get home to... 

• Troy 

• Ithaca

• VGV

• Italy 

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What is an epic poem? 

• A super awesome, really long poem 

• A long poem that tells the story of a hero, originally passed down orally

• A poem written a long time ago 

• I have no clue. 

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What are the aspects of a hero's journey?

• 1. call to adventure 2. return home 3. transformation  4. road of trials 5. supreme ordeal 

• 1. supreme ordeal  2. transformation  3. road of trials 4. go home and sleep 

• 1. Call to adventure  2. road of trials 3. supreme ordeal  4. transforamtion  5. Return Home

• 1. Road of trials  2. supreme ordeal  3. Return home  4. Transformation  5. Call to adventure 

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What movies or books or even tv shows that you have watched or read --- have shown this concept?

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