English

Donald Clayton

9 April, 11:54

Read the passage from the Odyssey.

Dear friends,

more than one man, or two, should know those things

Circe foresaw for us and shared with me,

so let me tell her forecast; then we die

with our eyes open, if we are going to die,

or know what death we battle if we can. Sirens

weaving a haunting song over the sea

we are to shun, she said, and their green shore

all sweet with clover; yet she urged that I

alone should listen to their song. Therefore

you are to tie me up, tight as a splint,

erect along the mast, lashed to the mast,

and if I shout and beg to be untied,

take more turns of the rope to muffle me.

Who is the antagonist in this passage?

Odysseus

Circe

Sirens

the men