Read this excerpt from Part 1 of The Odyssey by Homer. My men were mutinous, fools, on stores of wine. Sheep after sheep they bu
tchered by the surf, and shambling cattle, feasting,—while fugitives went inland, running to call to arms the main force of Cicones. This was an army, trained to fight on horseback or, where the ground required, on foot. They came with dawn over that terrain like the leaves and blades of spring. So doom appeared to us According to the excerpt, Odysseus believes his men were heroic careless cruel honest .
Odysseus had no patience for his men acting foolish on the beach. They were acting a fool, getting drunk on wine and excessively slaughtering the animals that populated the land, and eventually scared the locals into calling for backup. Their careless behavior brought the local forces of Cicones upon them.
