Across
- 3. comes up with an impossibly difficult challenge for the suitors
- 4. Circe’s island
- 7. warns Odysseus about the Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis
- 11. tries to help Odysseus with a bag of winds
- 13. blind, dead prophet sought out by Odysseus
- 15. Odysseus shows this weakness when leaving the Cyclopes' island
- 18. loyal swineherd
- 19. place of Helios’s cattle
- 21. land where Odysseus tells his story in Part One
- 22. tempt Odysseus and his men with an addictive plant
- 24. recognizes Odysseus from an old scar
- 26. delivers moly plant to Odysseus
- 28. kind of poem that tells a story
- 31. first suitor killed by Odysseus
- 32. headquarters of the Greek gods
- 33. King of the Gods
- 35. Greek custom of helping strangers
- 37. God of the sun, has an island with cattle
- 39. where Odysseus goes to talk to Teiresias
- 40. city where a wooden horse was used
- 41. sheep/ram shephard and a cannibal
Down
- 1. helps his father kill the suitors
- 2. one requirement of a Greek epic poem is a vast __
- 5. O. & P.’s bed acts as a __ of their strong marriage
- 6. an "odyssey" is basically a very long and difficult __ of some sort
- 8. setting of “The Odyssey”
- 9. Odysseus made his bed post around this
- 10. gives Odysseus a banquet and asks him his story
- 12. curious, clever hero of “The Odyssey”
- 14. deadly whirlpool of the sea
- 16. this army kills dozens of Odysseus’s men
- 17. Odysseus has himself tied up so he can hear their singing
- 20. god of the sea, angry with Odysseus
- 23. six-headed monster of the sea
- 25. faithful, loyal dog
- 27. the credited “author” of “The Odyssey”
- 29. Odysseus’s island
- 30. goddess who constantly helps Odysseus
- 34. Athena’s __ appears in the air above the suitors
- 36. Odysseus and his men raid and plunder here
- 38. Greek epic poems feature a strong and smart __