The Epic, The Greeks, and The Odyssey

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Across
  1. 3. Goddess of war and wisdom. Helps Odysseus throughout the story.
  2. 4. God of lightning and thunder / king of the gods
  3. 9. Odysseus' home city.
  4. 13. The goal of many epic poems. (3 words long)
  5. 14. The main character of The Odyssey
  6. 15. The kind of animal that the Greeks hid inside in order to infiltrate a city
  7. 16. The main character of an epic poem.
  8. 17. Words written in verse, sometimes with rhyme and meter.
  9. 19. Main characters of Greek Tragedies will have this, a personality trait that negatively affects them
  10. 21. Excessive _______ is the definition of the personality trait that negatively affects Odysseus
  11. 22. The city that Odysseus that is leaving to get home from. A war took place here in The Iliad.
  12. 23. God of the sea. Hates Odysseus and tries to avenge his son
  13. 24. The Odyssey is part truth and part _____.
  14. 25. Odysseus' personality trait that negatively affects him
Down
  1. 1. Nymph that traps Odysseus on an island for 8 years
  2. 2. Latin for "in the middle of things". Epics usually begin halfway through through the plot.
  3. 5. An extended poem, with a vast setting; The Odyssey is an example of this
  4. 6. Epic poems were originally not written and published; they were passed down in this way
  5. 7. The kind of intervention that occurs in epic poems
  6. 8. Odysseus' wife, who is at home, where suitors are trying to marry her
  7. 10. The United States has states, while Ancient Greek had these (two words)
  8. 11. Odysseus' son, who is coming of age to make adult decisions, but suffers from his dad being absent for so long
  9. 12. Greek gods, and other up creatures are all from this
  10. 15. The author of The Odyssey
  11. 18. The prequel to The Odyssey
  12. 20. The King of Phaeacia. He helps Odysseus after he washes ashore. It is here that the current plot takes place.
  13. 21. Son of the god of the sea. Odysseus and him have beef