The Odyssey - Part One
Across
- 4. Zeus uses one of these to sink the ship
- 6. sea monster of gray rock
- 7. our hero's homeland
- 9. beautiful sea goddess who loves/detains our hero
- 11. the god of the sea and earthquakes
- 12. god of the sun
- 15. crew member our hero sees in underworld
- 16. tells sun god that crew kills his cattle
- 18. giant with one eye
- 19. our hero's father
- 21. blind prophet - advises our hero in underworld
- 22. epic hero in the Odyssey
- 24. Calypso's island where hero ends his story
- 26. wizard who foresees Poseidon's son's blinding
- 27. convinces crew to kill the cattle
- 29. birdlike women whose songs lure sailors to death
Down
- 1. central larger than life character in an epic
- 2. fake name our hero tells cyclops
- 3. method by which epic poems were shared
- 5. long narrative about the deeds of a hero
- 8. ruler of Phaeacia - our hero tells him this story
- 9. enchantress who helps our story's hero
- 10. hero's mother whom he sees in underworld
- 13. number of years Part One stories span
- 14. cyclops whom our epic hero blinds
- 17. blind Greek credited with writing the Odyssey
- 20. the king of gods
- 21. caused by abduction of Helen of Troy
- 23. plants cause eaters to lose desire for home
- 25. enormous and dangerous whirlpool
- 28. epic poem about a hero returning home from Troy