Crash Course Video

1. How long did it take Odysseus to return home from the Trojan War?
2. According to Google Maps, how long should this trip have taken?
3. According to archeological evidence, when did the Trojan War occur?
4. When did Homer compose The Odyssey?
5. What is the definition of “epic poem”?
6. Who is Odysseus’ wife?
7. Who is Odysseus’ son?
8. What happens in the cave of the Cyclops?
9. Is Odysseus a hero? Why or why not?
10. What is considered one of the most beautiful lines in all of Homer?

1. 10 years 
2. 2 weeks 
3. 12th century BCE
4. 8th century BCE
5. Epic Poem- Defined as "a long narrative poem"
6. Penelope
7. Telemachus
8. Odysseus and his men were trapped inside of a cave by a cyclops. They grabbed a tree trunk and sharpened it into a point, they put it in the fire and when the cyclops came back, they stabbed it in the eye and it was blind forever.
9. He is a hero because he took 10 years to get back home to see his wife and kid, and he battled all of those monsters that he got sidetracked by and he killed every single one.
10. "And so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever."