Across
- 5. Who does Polyphemus pray to for revenge on Odysseus
- 6. eating his cattle
- 7. a long narrative poem that tells us the adventures of a hero is:
- 12. Odysseus instructs his sailors to plug their ears with this to block the sounds of the sirens.
- 14. famous prophet that Odysseus has to go to the underworld to see
- 15. son of the Greek hero Odysseus and his wife, Penelope
- 17. what is the thing that Penelope weaves and takes apart at night so that she doesn't have to marry the suitors?
- 18. Tiresias tells Odysseus that only ___________ will return home.
- 22. Odysseus faced both ______ and Scylla while rowing through a narrow channel.
- 23. how many years has Odysseus been gone since leaving for the Trojan War
- 24. A nymph that entertained the Greek hero Odysseus for seven years.
- 25. Odysseus' men tie him to the ____ of the ship so he can hear the sirens
Down
- 1. fake name Odysseus used to fool the cyclops
- 2. ______helps Odysseus out of sight, or approaches him in disguise.
- 3. the only Cyclops that is described in detail in the Odyssey. Son of Poseidon
- 4. who does the land belong to where odysseus' men ate a flower and did not want to continue on home?
- 8. what does calypso promise to make Odysseus if he stays on the island with her?
- 9. What is blocking the entrance to the Cyclops cave?
- 10. Circe can _____ men into animals
- 11. the Wind King gives Odysseus a _____ of wind
- 13. a long comparison between two unlike things
- 16. excessive pride
- 19. Helios threatens to make the __________ stop shining if Zeus doesn’t punish Odysseus' men
- 20. a supernatural female creature, with 12 feet and six heads on long snaky necks.
- 21. she turned Odysseus' men into pigs.