Read the excerpt from The Odyssey. Few men can keep alive through a big surf to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches in
joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind: and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever. From which part of Odysseus’s epic journey is this excerpt taken?
Homer's epic narrative story "The Odyssey" tells the long homeward bound journey of Odyssey. It details the various hardships that Odysseus and his men had to endure and go through to reach their home destination safely.
The given excerpt in the question is from the ending part of the epic where Odysseus had returned home to Ithaca. Taken from lines 265- 268, it shows Penelope finally recognizing her husband and wholeheartedly receiving him. His return home after many trials and obstacles culminates in a successful cleansing of the kingdom and household too.
