they wont go home and there country will die
Odysseus lost no men on the island of the lotus eaters. He was able to retrieve the 3 men that had succumbed to the lotus' temptation.
Odysseus sent two men and the man under them to the land of the Lotus Eaters to see what type of people the Lotus Eaters were, if they were friendly and the like.
Odysseus and his men had been in the land of the Cicons and their city of Ismarus before coming to the island of the lotus eaters. Before that, they fought at Troy.
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The lotus that they eat fills men with contentment. If they become contented just eating lotus, they would never keep their ambitions to go home, and thus never go home.
Three of his men ate the lotus eaters plant and the got stuck to the plant.
2 men and a runner
The men become vulnerable by eating the lotus. The lotus mad them lose all desire to return home and all they wanted to do was stay there with the lotus-eaters.
The Lotus-Eaters ate from a plant with heavy narcotic properties. It made Odysseus' men forget about home.
The Island of the Lotus Eaters. At least, I think so.
Because they did not want to return home
Because they did not want to return home