The Odyssey Background Information

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Across
  1. 2. the god of the sea (the god who works against Odysseus)
  2. 6. thought of as a special class--placed somewhere between the gods and ordinary human beings
  3. 7. man credited with writing The Odyssey and The Iliad
  4. 8. a Greek king (Helen's husband)
  5. 9. greatest of the Greek warriors who died young
  6. 10. Penelope and Odysseus' son
  7. 13. prince of Troy (Helen ran off with him)
  8. 14. Greek soldier trying to get hope from Trojan War
  9. 15. traditional stories usually explain a belief, a ritual, or a mysterious phenomenon
Down
  1. 1. tells of a ten-year war fought on the plains outside the walls of a great city Troy
  2. 2. beautiful and faithful wife of Odysseus
  3. 3. was thought to be a peace offering but it was a trick thought of by Odysseus
  4. 4. "singers of tales"
  5. 5. world's most beautiful woman
  6. 9. leader of the Greek forces(the brother of Menelaus)
  7. 11. long narrative poems that tell the adventures of heroes
  8. 12. the story of the attempt of one Greek soldier to get home after the Trojan War