The Odyssey Part 3 Quiz

Odysseus must travel to the edge of the world and perform a blood sacrifice to allow the spirits of the dead, including Tiresias, to speak.

The Phaeacians are master mariners who eventually provide Odysseus with the ship and treasures he needs to finally reach Ithaca.

Telemachus spends the first few books of the epic searching for news of his father and later assists him in reclaiming their home.

Charybdis is a personified whirlpool that drinks down the ocean water three times a day and spits it back out, making the strait impassable.

Disguised as a beggar, Odysseus is able to enter his own palace, observe the behavior of the suitors, and determine who remains loyal to him.

Eumaeus was born a prince but was kidnapped by his nurse and Phoenician pirates, eventually being bought by Odysseus’s father, Laertes.

Eumaeus, the swineherd, remains fiercely loyal to Odysseus’s family and is one of the few people Odysseus trusts to help him fight the suitors.

Odysseus lashes the mast and keel together to form a small raft and drifts for nine days before reaching Calypso’s island.

When Odysseus returns to Aeolus after the bag of winds is opened, Aeolus realizes the hero is cursed by the gods and orders him to leave immediately.

She tells Nausicaa how she should be preparing for marriage.