Experience the power of community-driven knowledge on IDNLearn.com. Ask your questions and receive prompt, detailed answers from our experienced and knowledgeable community members.
Which excerpt from The Odyssey best shows that the ancient Greeks greatly valued the idea of home?
What of those years
of rough adventure, weathered under Zeus?
The wind that carried us west from Ilium
brought me to Ismarus, on the far shore,
a strongpoint on the coast of Cicones.
And this new grief we bore with us to sea:
our precious lives we had, but not our friends.
No ship made sail next day until some shipmate
had raised a cry, three times, for each poor ghost
unfleshed by the Cicones on that field.
They fell in, soon enough, with Lotus-Eaters,
who showed no will to do us harm, only
offering the sweet Lotus to our friends—
but those who ate this honeyed plant, the Lotus,
never cared to report, nor to return:
My home is on the peaked sea-mark of Ithaca
under Mount Neion's wind-blown robe of leaves,
in sight of other islands—Dulichium,
Same, wooded Zacynthus—Ithaca
being most lofty in that coastal sea
Sagot :
Thank you for using this platform to share and learn. Keep asking and answering. We appreciate every contribution you make. IDNLearn.com is your source for precise answers. Thank you for visiting, and we look forward to helping you again soon.