Nationality Names & Places

Question 1

Isle of Ogygia

Answer 1

This is where Calypso, the daughter of Atlas, lives in her cave. Odysseus is held here for 7 years as Calypso wants him to marry her, but he wants to go home to Ithaca.

Question 2

Ithaca

Answer 2

This is an island off the west coast of Greece. Odysseus is king of Ithaca, and spends most of The Odyssey trying to return home, only to find there is trouble there too.

Question 3

Aeaea

Answer 3

The island home of Circe, a sorceress.

Question 4

Troy

Answer 4

Also known as Ilium; famous city burned to the ground by Greeks in the Trojan War, located in modern day Turkey. The war was started by the Greek city-states for the return of Helen.

Question 5

Mount Olympus

Answer 5

Home of the gods; highest mountain in Greece

Question 6

Pylos

Answer 6

The kingdom of Nestor.

Question 7

Sparta

Answer 7

Kingdom of Menelaus, and Helen.

Question 8

What is a general name for Greeks?

Answer 8

Achaeans

Question 9

What is a name for the Greeks that fought at Troy?

Answer 9

Argives

Question 10

Scherie

Answer 10

An island kingdom ruled by Alcinous; Phaeacians are shipbuilders and traders.

Question 11

Erebus

Answer 11

A region in the Underworld.

Question 12

Thrinacie

Answer 12

The island where the sun god Hyperion pastured his sacred cattle

Question 13

Scylla and Charybdis

Answer 13

Charybdis is thought to cause a deadly whirlpool who sucks in water three times daily. There is an island nearby with a great fig tree on it.
Scylla was turned into a hideous monster by Circe, and she is believed to be on a rock an arrow-shot from Charybdis - she bites off the heads of people passing in ships.