Across
- 3. Goddess of war and wisdom. Helps Odysseus throughout the story.
- 4. God of lightning and thunder / king of the gods
- 9. Odysseus' home city.
- 13. The goal of many epic poems. (3 words long)
- 14. The main character of The Odyssey
- 15. The kind of animal that the Greeks hid inside in order to infiltrate a city
- 16. The main character of an epic poem.
- 17. Words written in verse, sometimes with rhyme and meter.
- 19. Main characters of Greek Tragedies will have this, a personality trait that negatively affects them
- 21. Excessive _______ is the definition of the personality trait that negatively affects Odysseus
- 22. The city that Odysseus that is leaving to get home from. A war took place here in The Iliad.
- 23. God of the sea. Hates Odysseus and tries to avenge his son
- 24. The Odyssey is part truth and part _____.
- 25. Odysseus' personality trait that negatively affects him
Down
- 1. Nymph that traps Odysseus on an island for 8 years
- 2. Latin for "in the middle of things". Epics usually begin halfway through through the plot.
- 5. An extended poem, with a vast setting; The Odyssey is an example of this
- 6. Epic poems were originally not written and published; they were passed down in this way
- 7. The kind of intervention that occurs in epic poems
- 8. Odysseus' wife, who is at home, where suitors are trying to marry her
- 10. The United States has states, while Ancient Greek had these (two words)
- 11. Odysseus' son, who is coming of age to make adult decisions, but suffers from his dad being absent for so long
- 12. Greek gods, and other up creatures are all from this
- 15. The author of The Odyssey
- 18. The prequel to The Odyssey
- 20. The King of Phaeacia. He helps Odysseus after he washes ashore. It is here that the current plot takes place.
- 21. Son of the god of the sea. Odysseus and him have beef