... towards the gods. Poseidon delays Odysseus" return to Ithaca by creating huge storms and waves that only bring trouble upon Odysseus. In addition, "From storeroom to the court, they brought Melanthios, chopped with swords to cut his nose and ears off, pulled off his genitals to feed the dogs and raging hacked his hands and feet away." This excerpt tells of ... the gruesome death given to the disloyal goatherd Melanthios. While Odysseus was disguised as a beggar, Melanthios verbally assaulted him and even kicked his hip. He also took part in the destruction and disloyalty portrayed in Od...

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• Grade Level: High School

... to the battlefield of Troy. This stoic feeling for the death of others can be seen again less than a hundred lines later, when he deals with the treacherous maids and Melanthios in a ghastly manner... He tied one end of a hawser to a pillar and passed the other about the roundhouse top... So now in turn each woman thrust her head into a noose ... and swung, yanked high in air, to perish there most piteuously... From storeroom to the court they brough Melanthios, chopped with swords to cut his nose and ears off, pulled off his genitals to feed the dogs and raging hacked his hands and fee...

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• Grade Level: High School