Across
- 3. Temptress who turned Odysseus' men into pigs
- 4. The many-headed monster
- 7. Antinous is shot through this body part
- 8. How the bird women lure sailors
- 11. Where blind prophet resides
- 13. God who helped Odysseus with the temptress
- 15. Odysseus' son
- 16. Cyclop's name
- 18. Sungod's animal
- 20. Odysseus' homeland
- 21. Reason Odysseus left his homeland
- 22. Cyclops asks this god (his father) for revenge against Odysseus who then sends a terrible storm
- 23. Odysseus and his son remove all the _____________ from the Great Hall and lock the suitors in.
- 24. Odysseus' decision between the many-headed monster and the whirlpool
- 30. What Odysseus is disguised as when he reunites with his son
- 32. Number of years Odysseus has been away from home
- 33. Found Odysseus and listened to him recount his adventures at sea before returning him home
- 35. First stop in the journey when Odysseus' men didn't listen and they were surprise attacked
- 36. Odysseus' son proposes a contest -- whoever can string Odysseus' ______ and shoot an arrow through nine ax handles may marry his mother.
- 38. The suitors are shocked when __________ steps up and accomplishes it first.
- 40. Cyclops' body part Odysseus damaged with a sharpened tree limb
- 41. Blind prophet who gives Odysseus advice
- 42. Penelope meets with Odysseus to find out what he knows of her missing husband and reveals her deception for holding off the suitors. She weaves a shroud during the day and _____________ it at night.
- 44. God who destroyed Odysseus' ship in anger for slaughtering the sun god's animals
Down
- 1. Upon seeing Odysseus for the first time in many years, Odysseus' dog ___________ wags his tail once then promptly dies
- 2. Goddess who disguises Odysseus when he returns to his homeland
- 3. Sea Nymph who held Odysseus captive for first seven years of his journey home
- 5. God of winds who lent Odysseus a bag of winds that returned him home only to have his men open it and blow them off course again
- 6. Suitor who is especially cruel to Odysseus in disguise and even throws a chair at him
- 9. The clever name Odysseus uses to trick the cyclops
- 10. Odysseus and his men hid under these when escaping the cyclops' cave
- 12. After encountering these tricksters, Odysseus' men consume a plant and forget their home.
- 14. Seek revenge the day after the Death in the Great Hall but are stopped by Athena
- 17. Penelope's sign from Odysseus proving he's her husband
- 19. At first, Odysseus' son believes Odysseus is a _____________ and not his father
- 23. What they pretend to have to hide the suitors' dead bodies
- 25. A whirlpool with teeth
- 26. Odysseus becomes __________________ and when safely back on his ship taunts the cyclops and reveals his name
- 27. Eventually, he realizes it's his father and the two plot the suitor's ______________
- 28. Sun god
- 29. Monsterous cannibal
- 30. Odysseus' disguise disappears and the suitors try to ____________ with him but Odysseus and his son kill without mercy.
- 31. Unfortunately, Penelope has been caught by a _________ and now the suitors demand she marry one of them.
- 34. Crewman with silvertongue on sun god's island
- 37. Defense against the sirens
- 39. Odysseus' wife
- 43. Bird women who lure sailors to their deaths