BooK 
IX
New Coasts and Poseidons Son

Character List:
Epic Similes
Themes
Values
Quotes
QUIZ
#1
Who does Polymephos request the punishment of Odysseus and what is the relationship between them?
a)Zeus, father
b)Athena, sister
c)Poseidon, son
d)Penelope, wife
e)Poseidon, father
f)Athena, mother


#2
Which was the first island in which Odysseus and his men arrived after leaving Troy?
a)Ismarus
b)Kaikones
c)Ithaka
d)Phaiakia

#3
T/F
Odysseus suggest to his men to take as much sheep, cheese, and food as they possibly could.

#4
Explain the plan Odysseus proposed to escape from Polyphemos.

Respect
Hospitality


Odysseus
Alkinos
Kalypso
Zeus
Kikones
Akhaians
Kyklops
Polyphemos
Poseidon
Maron
2 men
4 men
"Then he dismembered them and made his meal, gaping and crunching like a mountain lion- everything:innards, flesh, and marrow bones."[pg. 153] 


Revenge
Teamwork
Greed
"Kyklops, try some wine. Here's liquor to wash down your scraps of men. taste it, and see the kind of drink we carried under our planks. I meant it for an offering if you would help us home. But you are mad, unbearable, a bloody monster! After this, will any other traveller come to see you?" [pg.155]
"O hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if I am thine indeed, and thou art father:grant that Odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home:Laertes son, I mean,who kept his hall on Ithaka. Should destiny intend that he shall see his roof again among his family in his father land, far be that day, and dark the years between."[pg.161]
Courage

Gratitud