What are some questions that involve useful information from the Odyssey?

I need to write a few questions that contain useful information from the Odyssey.



Please write any questions that would fall under these guidelines.



Thanks!What are some questions that involve useful information from the Odyssey?here just take mine I did this in like 9th grade





Book One

1) Q: What did Poseidon have against Odysseus?

A: Poseidon, the god of sea had an old grudge against Odysseus since Odysseus poked Polyphemas’, (Poseidon’s son) eye out.

2) Q: Why did the goddess Athena want Zeus to send Hermes to Calypso?

A: Athena wanted Zeus to send Hermes to Calypso Island to have Calypso release Odysseus. Athena thought it was time for him to go home and deal with the suitors.

3) Q: What problems did Odysseus’ absence cause for his wife and son?

A: When Odysseus did not return home, his kingdom was taken over by suitors who want to marry his wife, Penelope. Penelope had to live with the pain that her husband had not returned and that the suitors had taken over the palace using up everything that belonged to Odysseus. Odysseus being gone cause hardship among his wife as well as his son, Telémachus. Telémachus struggled if Odysseus was dead or alive. If he was dead then he should make him a tomb and give him a proper burial. He also has the trouble of the suitors courting his mother and them eating everything they have.

4) Q: Why did Telémachus go on a voyage?

A: Telémachus left on a journey to find news of his father or bring home his body for a mound. Athena also told him it was his duty to go find news of his father.



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5) Q: “Long years ago, when she has been touched by loveliness, Laertes purchased her” Do you think Laertes’ wife was jealous?

A: Yes, I think Laetes wife was jealous when Laét?s purchased another woman.

Book Two

1) Q: According to Antinous, why was Penelope to blame for the messy situation in Odysseus’ house?

A: Antinous blamed Penelope for the messy situation in Odysseus’ house because for almost four years she seduced every suitor but would not commit to any of them.

2) Q: Who was Halitherses and what prediction did the make?

A: Halitherses, son of Mastor, was the best at reading bird flight and putting the reading into words for everyone to hear. He predicted that Odysseus would return soon and when he did he would kill the suitors.

3) Q: Why didn’t Eurycleia want Telémachus to leave? A: Eurycleia did not want Telémachus to leave because he was an only child and she did not want him to suffer hardship and homelessness at sea. Plus, she was worried that the suitors would plot to kill him and take all his things.

Book Three

1) Q: Who killed Agamemnon and how was that murder avenged?

A: Nestor told Telémachus the story about Agamemnon. He said that Aegisthus, who was a coward, had stayed behind while the other went to Troy to fight. While Agamemnon was gone, Aegisthus seduced Agamemnon’s wife and married her. On the



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day of his homecoming Aegisthus killed Agamemnon. All this was approved by Clytemnestra, Agamemnon’s wife.

2) Q: What did Nestor know about Odysseus’ whereabouts?

A: Nestor only asked Telémachus about Odysseus, but Nestor did not have any information about the Greek hero. Instead he sends him to Sparta to talk with Menelaus.

3) Q: Why did Nestor advise Telémachus to let Nestor’s sons “guide (him) into sunlit Lacedaemon”?

A: Nestor sends his sons with Telémachus to guide him to Menelaus because he felt it was his duty to help Telémachus since he was the son of Odysseus.

4) Q: What sort of sacrifice did Nestor oversee before sending his son off with Telémachus to Sparta?

A: Before Telemachus left Nestor’s palace they sacrificed a young heifer. After they took the life out of the heifer they placed the thigh bone wrapped them in fat with raw strips of flesh and put them on the fire moistened in red wine.

Book Four

1) Q: What did Menelaus tell Telémachus about the wooden horse?

A: Menelaus told Telemachus that he has never seen a man as brave as Odysseus. He told the story of how Odysseus was able to sneak into Troy in a wooden horse and slaughter the Trojans.

2) Q: Why didn’t Menelaus go right home after the Trojan War?

A: Menelaus told Telemachus that when he tried to sail home the gods detained him. He was kept in Egypt for twenty days because there was no wind. Then he talked to

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Eidothea, daughter of Proteus who told him he had to capture her father Proteus, the Old Man of the Sea. She told him how to capture him and when he did Proteus told him how to get back to Sparta.

3) Q: Why did Menelaus reveal about Odysseus’ whereabouts?

A: Menelaus told Telemachus that when he captured Proteus he told him new about Odysseus. Proteus told Menelaus that Odysseus was still alive but was imprisoned by Calypso on her island.

4) Q: “Athena sent that phantom to the house of the divine Odysseus” (p.90). Explain who Athena sent where and why?

A: While Telemachus was away the suitors were plotting to kill him when he returned. Mendon heard their plans and told Penelope. She became very upset that she has already lost her husband and now would lossWhat are some questions that involve useful information from the Odyssey?How many pages the book is? lol