Odyssey Review

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Across
  1. 2. Odysseus’s island
  2. 5. recognizes Odysseus from an old scar
  3. 9. kind of poem that tells a story
  4. 11. sheep/ram shephard and a cannibal
  5. 16. Odysseus shows this weakness when leaving the Cyclopes' island
  6. 17. one requirement of a Greek epic poem is a vast __
  7. 18. city where a wooden horse was used
  8. 19. tempt Odysseus and his men with an addictive plant
  9. 20. tries to help Odysseus with a bag of winds
  10. 21. deadly whirlpool of the sea
  11. 22. Greek custom concerning helping strangers
  12. 26. god of the sea, angry with Odysseus
  13. 28. an "odyssey" is basically a very long and difficult __ of some sort
  14. 31. helps his father kill the suitors
  15. 33. King of the Gods
  16. 35. faithful, loyal dog
  17. 37. loyal swineherd
  18. 38. first suitor killed by Odysseus
Down
  1. 1. setting of “The Odyssey”
  2. 3. Odysseus made his bed post around this
  3. 4. Circe’s island
  4. 6. Odysseus and his men raid and plunder here
  5. 7. where Odysseus goes to talk to Teiresias
  6. 8. the credited “author” of “The Odyssey”
  7. 10. gives Odysseus a banquet and asks him his story
  8. 12. curious, clever hero of “The Odyssey”
  9. 13. land where Odysseus tells his story in Part One
  10. 14. six-headed monster of the sea
  11. 15. goddess who constantly helps Odysseus
  12. 23. blind, dead prophet sought out by Odysseus
  13. 24. headquarters of the Greek gods
  14. 25. comes up with an impossibly difficult challenge for the suitors
  15. 27. Odysseus has himself tied up so he can hear their singing
  16. 29. God of the sun, has an island with cattle
  17. 30. delivers moly plant to Odysseus
  18. 32. warns Odysseus about Scylla and Charybdis
  19. 34. place of Helios’s cattle
  20. 36. Greek epic poems feature a strong and smart __