Question

Read the following passage and answer the question. I’ll never find one – no matter where I go, not even if I went back to mother and father, the house where I was born and my parents reared me once. Ah, but much as I grieve for them, much as I long to lay my eyes on them. Set food on the old soil, it’s longing for him, him that wrings my heart – Odysseus, lost and gone! That man, old friend, far away as he is… I can scarcely bear to say his name aloud, so deeply he loved me, cared for me, so deeply. Worlds away as he is, I call him my Master, Brother!” Who is the speaker of this passage? Telemachus Odysseus Eumaeus Melanthius

Answer 1

The speaker is Eumaeus

Answer 2

Answer: The right answer is the C) Eumaeus.

Explanation: Just to elaborate a little on the answer, it can be added that, in this excerpt, Odysseus' loyal friend and sheperd, Eumaeus, is describing him in very praising terms. This scene takes place upon the return of Odysseus to Ithaca. Odysseus is dressed as a vagabond and he visits Eumaeus, who does not recognize him, and, without knowing it, is talking about him.