The Odyssey--Part One: The Wanderings

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Across
  1. 4. Odysseus's wife
  2. 6. King of Phaeacians; Odysseus tells his story to his court
  3. 7. Odysseus's son
  4. 9. Kill 6 benches of men in each of Odysseus' ships
  5. 11. Polyphemus reveals that there was a _______ that he would be blinded
  6. 13. An epic hero may be of ____________ birth
  7. 14. War Odysseus is coming home from
  8. 17. Eating their flower makes Odysseus' men forget about their homes
  9. 19. What Odysseus and his men hide under to escape the Cyclops
  10. 21. Number of years Odysseus takes to get home
  11. 22. Delivers message to Calypso that she must release Odysseus
  12. 24. Plea to the Muse that starts the epic poem
  13. 26. What Polyphemus closes his cave with (two words)
  14. 27. Author of The Iliad and the Odyssey
Down
  1. 1. Latin for "in the midst of things" (three words)
  2. 2. Number of years Odysseus spends on Calypso's island
  3. 3. Type of forces an epic hero fights
  4. 5. Epic hero of the Odyssey
  5. 8. Cyclops blinded by Odysseus and his men
  6. 10. Goddess of Wisdom who helps guide Odysseus
  7. 12. Holds Odysseus captive on her island
  8. 15. Type of tree Odysseus makes the pointy stake from
  9. 16. Odysseus shows qualities of both a good and bad _______
  10. 18. One of the characteristics of an epic hero is that they have a __________(two words)
  11. 20. Father of the Cyclops, Polyphemus
  12. 23. What Odysseus uses to get Polyphemus to fall asleep
  13. 25. Fake name Odysseus gives to the Cyclops