I’ll never find one – no matter where I go, not even if I went back to mother and father, the house where I was born and my pare
nts reared me once. Ah, but much as I grieve for them, much as I long to lay my eyes on them. Set food on the old soil, it’s longing for him, him that wrings my heart – Odysseus, lost and gone! That man, old friend, far away as he is… I can scarcely bear to say his name aloud, so deeply he loved me, cared for me, so deeply. Worlds away as he is, I call him my Master, Brother!” Who is the speaker of this passage?
Answer: I do not know if they have provided you with options, but the speaker of this passage is Eumaeus, Odysseus's friend and the one who keeps the pigs on his estate.
Explanation: Just to elaborate a little on the answer, it can be added that this scene takes place when Odysseus returns to Ithaca after the Trojan War and, disguised as a beggar, visits Eumaeus, who does not recognize him but treats him kindly. Odysseus has asked Eumaeus about his life on the estate, and he is here talking about his master, whom he praises and longs for. Eumaeus confesses that not even at his childhood home could he find a master like Odysseus.
