Odyssey Background Notes

Homer’s second epic, story of Odysseus’s journey home

• The Odyssey

• The Illiad

• The Cyclops

• I am Laertes's Son

What country told this story?

• Greece

• Italy

• France

• Spain

The author who gathered all the war stories together

• Shakespeare

• Odysseus

• Achilles

• Homer

Two titles of his two stories (two answers)

• The Cyclops

• The Odyssey

• The Illiad

• Romeo and Juliet

The battles took place around what time

• 1000 BC

• 1200 BC

• 1500 BC

• During the Harlem Renaissance

Which story told the tale of Odysseus's time at war?

• The Odyssey

• The Illiad

• I am Laertes's Son

• The Cyclops

Which story told the tale of Odysseus's journey back home?

• The Odyssey

• The Cyclops

• The Illiad

• I am Laertes's Son

A long poem, derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds of heroic figures.

• myth

• epic

• song

• lyrics

Located in Greece, Menalaus is ruler, site of many wars and important events

• Athens
• Troy
• Sparta
• Rome

Where Greeks attacked to avenge the insult suffered by King of Sparta. Where Paris is from (who stole Helen).

• Athens
• Rome
• Troy
• Sparta