Thursday, January 15, 2015

In The Odyssey, please quote the first epithet seen in Land of Lotus Eaters and in Sailing from Troy?

An epithet is a word or phrase used to describe a quality of that thing.  In the Land of the Lotus Eaters, the description of the lotus flower itself is an epithet:

"the honey-sweet fruit of the lotus" (Odyssey, Book 9)

In Sailing from Troy, the epithet is in description of Odysseus' men:

"an evil fate from Zeus beset us luckless men" (Odyssey, Book 9)

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