The answer is B: His encounter with Poseidon, who holds a grudge against Odysseus for blinding his son, presents the severest confrontation for the hero.
Odysseus, after being a decisive character in winning the war at Troy, has to return home by sea, but having blinded Poseidon´s son, Polyphemus, he is forced to face the rage and anger of the god of the sea. Poseidon then sets all kinds of obstacles for Odysseus making his travels perilous and long, to a point where, out of all his crew memebers, Odysseus is the only one who makes it back home alive.
In the phrase, Ladies, gentlewomen, and other inferior women, but not less worthy, the word <em>inferior </em>refers to women of lower social class.
