The Odyssey

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Across
  1. 2. The piece of furniture Penelope's test is based on
  2. 4. The mountain the gods lived on
  3. 7. Odysseus helped build a giant one of these to help win the Trojan War
  4. 8. Odysseus' home
  5. 9. An epic story is told by a -------
  6. 11. King of Ithaca
  7. 14. The god whose cattle were consumed by Odysseus' crew
  8. 17. The gods and goddess involvement in the loves of mortals is called "------------ intervention"
  9. 18. Where Odysseus' journey home began
  10. 21. The king Odysseus tells his story to
  11. 24. Sucked down water then threw it back up
  12. 25. The war the Iliad and the Odyssey were based on
  13. 26. Famous blind prophet (not author)
  14. 27. The Trojan War began over one of these
  15. 29. The Cyclops blinded by Odysseus
  16. 32. Which sense (as in the 5 senses) was Homer probably lacking?
  17. 33. Who does Homer appeal to in the beginning Of the Odyssey
  18. 34. Nymph who delays Odysseus for seven years
  19. 35. One of Odysseus’s loyal servants and a swineherd
  20. 39. Homer lived about two hundred years ----- the people he was writing about in the Odyssey
  21. 41. How Odysseus' old nurse Eurycleia recognizes him
  22. 42. Another name for Troy
Down
  1. 1. Gives Odysseus a gift of winds in a bag
  2. 3. The only god who did not pity Odysseus
  3. 5. The hero of the Iliad
  4. 6. Scylla and Carbides would be examples of this characteristic of an epic
  5. 7. The messenger of the gods
  6. 10. Goddess who helps and protects Odysseus
  7. 12. Wrote the Odyssey
  8. 13. Odysseus’s son
  9. 15. The most powerful god
  10. 16. A characteristic of an epic that means "begins in the middle of things" (3 words)
  11. 19. The flowery fruit that made men lose perspective and priorities
  12. 20. The cockiest suitor and the first one killed
  13. 22. The people who were raided during Odysseus' first stop on his way home from Troy
  14. 23. Odysseus had to be tied down to listen to their song
  15. 28. Credit for blinding the Cyclops is initially given to this individual
  16. 29. Wife of Odysseus
  17. 30. Father of Odysseus
  18. 31. The animals that "help" Odysseus and his men escape Polyphemus' cave
  19. 34. The enchantress who turned Odysseus' men into pigs
  20. 36. Odysseus' old dog
  21. 37. A female monster with six serpent heads
  22. 38. "Achilles' choice" was a "short life with -----"
  23. 40. How many years did the Trojan War last?