Odyssey Crossword

Odyssey Crossword Across 1. King of Ithaca 3. An epic story is told by a ------4. The hero of the Iliad 5. Odysseus helped build a giant one of these to help win the Trojan War 8. Goddess who helps and protects Odysseus 9. Odysseus' home 11. The flowery fruit that made men lose perspective and priorities 13. The people who were raided during Odysseus' first stop on his way home from Troy 14. Another name for Troy 16. The Trojan War began over one of these 18. The most powerful god 21. Gives Odysseus a gift of winds in a bag 23. How many years did the Trojan War last? 24. The messenger of the gods 25. Where Odysseus' journey home began 27. The piece of furniture Penelope's test is based on 29. The Cyclops blinded by Odysseus 34. Famous blind prophet (not author) 35. The king Odysseus tells his story to 38. Odysseus' old dog 39. The animals that "help" Odysseus and his men escape Polyphemus' cave 41. Credit for blinding the Cyclops is initially given to this individual 43. A characteristic of an epic that means "begins in the middle of things" (3 words)

Down 2. The gods and goddess involvement in the loves of mortals is called "------intervention" 6. One of Odysseus’s loyal servants and a swineherd 7. The god whose cattle were consumed by Odysseus' crew 8. Homer lived ----- the people he was writing about in the Odyssey 10. The war the Iliad and the Odyssey were based on 12. A female monster with six serpent heads 15. Odysseus had to be tied down to listen to their song 17. Who does Homer appeal to in the beginning Of the Odyssey 19. Which sense (as in the 5 senses) was Homer probably lacking? 20. Sucked down water then threw it back up 22. Father of Odysseus 23. Odysseus’s son 26. Scylla and Carbides would be examples of this characteristic of an epic 28. The cockiest suitor and the first one killed 30. How Odysseus' old nurse Eurycleia recognizes him 31. Wife of Odysseus 32. The enchantress who turned Odysseus' men into pigs 33. Wrote the Odyssey 36. "Achilles' choice" was a "short life with -----" 37. Nymph who delays Odysseus for seven years 40. The only god who did not pity Odysseus 42. The mountain the gods lived on