(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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How long was Odysseus away from home?
20 years
Where is Odysseus's home?
Ithaca
Used as earplugs
Beeswax
The real name of Poseidon's son
Polyphemus
How is Odysseus's ship destroyed?
Lightning bolt from Zeus
Messenger to the Gods
Hermes
The Trojan War was fought here
Troy
Calypso's Home
Ogygia Isle
The nymph Odysseus lives with at the VERY end of his journey
Calypso
What does Odysseus give the Cyclops?
Brandy
Belief that hospitality is important - especially to strangers
Xenia
Home of the Gods
Olympus
Odysseus's mom who he sees in the underworld
Anticlea
Convinced the men to eat the cattle
Eurylochus
Mother of the Cyclops
Thoosa
The "native bloom" that makes people forgetful of their homeland
Lotus
Eats several of Odysseus's men in a cave
Cyclops
Author of The Odyssey
Homer
God of the sea/earthquakes
Poseidon
Warns Odysseus about the sirens
Circe
What quality is Odysseus famous for?
Guile
Odysseus's fatal flaw
Hubris
The Sun God
Helios
"So let me tell her forecast: then we die with our eyes open"
Odysseus
The "narrow strait" Tiresias says will take them through Poseidon's wrath
Denial of yourself and restraint of shipmates
Fell off Circe's roof and died
Elpenor
Ancient Greek value
Honor the Gods
A detailed comparison, using like or as, that is many lines in length
Epic Simile
Gives Odysseus a ship to get home
Alcinous
"Sweet coupled airs we sing. No lonely seafarer holds clear of entering our green mirror"
Sirens
Sea monster who eats Odysseus's men
Scylla
God of the sky/weather
Zeus
The gift Aeolus gives to Odysseus
Bag of Wind
Another name for Helios
Lord of Noon
"If you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew"
Tiresias
People who ambushed Odysseus's men on Ismarus
Cicones
What is the name of the whirlpool?
Charybdis
What Circe turned Odysseus's men into
Swine
Another term for cows
Kine
God of the Underworld
Hades
Goddess of wisdom and war
Athena
Describe the exploits or quest of an epic hero
Epic
How long was the Trojan War?
10 years
The animal that helped Odysseus escape the Cyclop's cave
Ram
