Across
- 5. kind of poem that tells a story
- 7. Greek epic poems feature a strong and smart __
- 8. Odysseus’s home island
- 12. her spell makes pigs out of men
- 13. Odysseus left Ithaca to fight in the __ __
- 15. the credited “author” of “The Odyssey”
- 16. goddess who constantly helps Odysseus
- 18. Odysseus has himself tied up so he can hear their singing
- 22. setting of “The Odyssey”
- 24. tries to help Odysseus with a bag of winds
- 25. city where a wooden horse was used
- 27. one requirement of a Greek epic poem is a vast __
- 28. King of the Gods
- 29. six-headed monster of the sea
- 32. deadly whirlpool of the sea
- 33. animal that some of Odysseus’s turn into
- 34. one-eyed sheep and ram shepherd
Down
- 1. an "odyssey" is basically a very long and difficult __ of some sort
- 2. God of the sun, has an island with cattle
- 3. Odysseus shows this weakness when leaving the Cyclopes' island
- 4. Odysseus’s faithful, patient wife
- 6. land where Odysseus tells his story in Part One
- 9. king of Phaecia, shows hospitatlity to Odysseus
- 10. god of the sea, angry with Odysseus
- 11. island with Helios’s cattle
- 13. blind, dead prophet sought out by Odysseus
- 14. where Odysseus goes to talk to Teiresias
- 17. delivers moly plant to Odysseus
- 19. narrow waterway between two large water bodies
- 20. Circe’s island
- 21. tempt Odysseus and his men with an addictive plant
- 23. headquarters of the Greek gods
- 26. curious, clever hero of “The Odyssey”
- 30. Odysseus and his men raid and plunder here
- 31. Greek custom concerning helping strangers