The Odyssey

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Across
  1. 3. Temptress who turned Odysseus' men into pigs
  2. 4. The many-headed monster
  3. 7. Antinous is shot through this body part
  4. 8. How the bird women lure sailors
  5. 11. Where blind prophet resides
  6. 13. God who helped Odysseus with the temptress
  7. 15. Odysseus' son
  8. 16. Cyclop's name
  9. 18. Sungod's animal
  10. 20. Odysseus' homeland
  11. 21. Reason Odysseus left his homeland
  12. 22. Cyclops asks this god (his father) for revenge against Odysseus who then sends a terrible storm
  13. 23. Odysseus and his son remove all the _____________ from the Great Hall and lock the suitors in.
  14. 24. Odysseus' decision between the many-headed monster and the whirlpool
  15. 30. What Odysseus is disguised as when he reunites with his son
  16. 32. Number of years Odysseus has been away from home
  17. 33. Found Odysseus and listened to him recount his adventures at sea before returning him home
  18. 35. First stop in the journey when Odysseus' men didn't listen and they were surprise attacked
  19. 36. Odysseus' son proposes a contest -- whoever can string Odysseus' ______ and shoot an arrow through nine ax handles may marry his mother.
  20. 38. The suitors are shocked when __________ steps up and accomplishes it first.
  21. 40. Cyclops' body part Odysseus damaged with a sharpened tree limb
  22. 41. Blind prophet who gives Odysseus advice
  23. 42. Penelope meets with Odysseus to find out what he knows of her missing husband and reveals her deception for holding off the suitors. She weaves a shroud during the day and _____________ it at night.
  24. 44. God who destroyed Odysseus' ship in anger for slaughtering the sun god's animals
Down
  1. 1. Upon seeing Odysseus for the first time in many years, Odysseus' dog ___________ wags his tail once then promptly dies
  2. 2. Goddess who disguises Odysseus when he returns to his homeland
  3. 3. Sea Nymph who held Odysseus captive for first seven years of his journey home
  4. 5. God of winds who lent Odysseus a bag of winds that returned him home only to have his men open it and blow them off course again
  5. 6. Suitor who is especially cruel to Odysseus in disguise and even throws a chair at him
  6. 9. The clever name Odysseus uses to trick the cyclops
  7. 10. Odysseus and his men hid under these when escaping the cyclops' cave
  8. 12. After encountering these tricksters, Odysseus' men consume a plant and forget their home.
  9. 14. Seek revenge the day after the Death in the Great Hall but are stopped by Athena
  10. 17. Penelope's sign from Odysseus proving he's her husband
  11. 19. At first, Odysseus' son believes Odysseus is a _____________ and not his father
  12. 23. What they pretend to have to hide the suitors' dead bodies
  13. 25. A whirlpool with teeth
  14. 26. Odysseus becomes __________________ and when safely back on his ship taunts the cyclops and reveals his name
  15. 27. Eventually, he realizes it's his father and the two plot the suitor's ______________
  16. 28. Sun god
  17. 29. Monsterous cannibal
  18. 30. Odysseus' disguise disappears and the suitors try to ____________ with him but Odysseus and his son kill without mercy.
  19. 31. Unfortunately, Penelope has been caught by a _________ and now the suitors demand she marry one of them.
  20. 34. Crewman with silvertongue on sun god's island
  21. 37. Defense against the sirens
  22. 39. Odysseus' wife
  23. 43. Bird women who lure sailors to their deaths