<span>It's an exemplum because in that it reveals what greed is capable of doing, even to close friends. Also the danger of the love of money and the deceptiveness of death. </span>
Answer is D, appearance.
Ex, veneer also is a word in the dental community used for teeth, to make the appear better looking. So this word means appearance.
If you are asking about his troubles with the Cicones, then it is his crewmen he blames.
2. The Postmodern art<span> of today is defined and determined, not by artists, but by a new generation of curators, philosophers and intellectuals ignorant of the past and able to ignore it.</span>
