Odysseus & The Bag of Winds

A set of stories from a culture's distant past, sometimes based on true events...BUT involving supernatural beings is called........

• Fables

• Realistic fiction

• Science Fiction

• Mythology

Before humans developed scientific explanations for natural events such as earthquakes, storms, and volcanoes many ancient ______________ explained these mysteries.

• customs

• biographies

• myths

• artifacts

When Zeus was angry with a mortal, ancient Greeks believed he would cast lightning to frighten or punish them. What is a mortal?

• A human subject to life.

• A human subject to death.

• A human subject to punishment.

• A human subject to a lifetime of car warranty and telemarketing phone calls.

The war between Greece and Troy known as the ______ _______ lasted ten years.

• Civil War

• World War II

• Vietnam War

• Trojan War

The poet ______________ wrote a famous account of the Trojan War called "The Illiad."

• Edgar Allen Poe

• Walt Whitman

• Homer

• Plato

The poet also wrote his most famous poem of all which explores what happened immediately after the Trojan War ended. This masterpiece was called The _________ and it is the about our main character Odysseus.

• Illiad

• O Brother Where Art Thou

• Tuck Everlasting

• Odyssey

Who did Odysseus fight for?

• The Trojans

• The Greeks

After the war ended Odysseus and his men began sailing to _________, their island home.

• Troy

• Ithaca

• Turkey

• Treegap

Odysseus's journey home took _______ years.

• 8

• 9

• 10

• 11

Who was Aeolus?

• The god of thunder

• a friend of Zeus

• a friend of Poseidon

• a friend of Odysseus