Which excerpt from The Odyssey best demonstrates the importance of perseverance in Greek society? Long ships with good stout pla
nks athwart—would fighters rig them to ride the barren sea, except for hunger? “I learned to keep my head in hardship—years of war and years at sea. Let this new trial come.” The young men, afterward, hunted wild goats with him, and hare, and deer, but he had grown old in his master's absence. No man of woman born could work these wonders by his own craft, unless a god came into it with ease to turn him young or old at will.
<u>Option B. The following excerpt from "The Odyssey" best demonstrates the importance of perseverance in Greek society:</u>
"I learned to keep my head in hardship-years of war and years at sea. Let this new trial come."
Explanation:
Perseverance is one of the main themes found in "The Odyssey", one of the two major ancient Greek poems written by Homer. Odysseus's 10-year battle and the plenty of adventures and obstacles he then encounters are proof that one other main qualities of the protagonist is that he is perseverant; no matter what he is facing, he keeps on going. When he expresses "I learned to keep my head in hardship-years of war and years at sea. Let this new trial come" he is consciously embracing any challenge life may be about to throw at him, knowing that he had already been victorious in many other hard moments.
"I learned to keep my hean in hardship--years of war and years at sea. Let this new trial come." This shows that perseverance was important in Greek society because the Greeks needed perseverance to win the wars that they won and to achieve all the great things they achieved.
