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