The Odyssey Books 1-12

1. The son of Poseidon whose eye is blinded by a sharpened olive stake.
4. The friend of Odysseus whose form Athena often takes to advise Telemachus.
5. The six-headed monster who snatches six men from the deck of the ship.
10. The Greek concept of hospitality which the suitors flagrantly violate.
12. The giant cannibals who destroy all but one of Odysseus's ships.
13. The city of the Cicones, the first stop on the journey after leaving Troy.
14. The sea goddess who gives Odysseus a magical veil to keep him from drowning.
15. The King of the Gods who strikes Odysseus's ship with a lightning bolt after the crew eats the cattle.
17. The messenger god who tells Calypso she must let Odysseus leave her island.
19. The island home of the witch-goddess Circe.
22. The personified whirlpool that sits across the narrow strait from Scylla.
24. The Sun God whose sacred cattle are slaughtered by the starving crew.
25. The "grey-eyed" goddess who helps Telemachus find the courage to stand up to the suitors.

2. The wife of Odysseus who weaves and unweaves a shroud to delay her marriage.
3. The young crewman who dies after falling from a roof and meets Odysseus in Hades.
6. The magical herb given by Hermes to protect Odysseus from being turned into a pig.
7. The Phaeacian princess who discovers Odysseus while washing clothes by the river.
8. The God whose sacred cattle were eaten.
9. The substance the shades in the Underworld must drink before they can speak the truth.
11. The winged singers who try to lure the sailors to their rocky island.
16. The son of Odysseus who matures throughout the first four books of the poem.
18. The god who prevents Odysseus from reaching home as revenge for his son's eye.
20. The mother of Odysseus who reveals she died of grief during their meeting in the Underworld.
21. Calypso detains Odysseus for seven years on this island.
23. The King of the Phaeacians who listens to Odysseus’s long tale.