He is brash, and challenges Odysseus to a fight. The suitors encourage this, and promise the winner a meal. Odysseus wins easily with the ...
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He is using a simile because he is comparing the tearing of the humans to how a mountain lion eats his food.
The suitors give him food with great reluctance, and Antinous goes out of his way to insult him.
give your orders to all and call the gods to witness: tell the
When Odysseus departs from Ithaca to fight for the Greeks in the war, he leaves behind a newborn child, Telemachus, and his wife,
Summary Odysseus walks to town the next morning, joined by Eumaeus, who still ... swineherd cross paths with a bully, the goatherd Melanthius, but avoid a fight. ... to bring such a despicable old vagabond (Odysseus) to interrupt his dining.
He ordered them both inside so that the suitors could enjoy the spectacle of a
Summary After identifying himself to the Phaeacians at the feast, Odysseus tells ... eating the lotus plant causes Odysseus' men to lose memory and all desire to ... This time, Odysseus' judgment prevails, and he manages to get his men back to ...
helped themselves to the food and drink they found there, and fell asleep. After a ...