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This episode suggests that not all of the men may necessarily want to go home as badly as Odysseus does, and perhaps they would stay some where else if they were allowed.
That is "lotus eaters," encountered by Odysseus and his crew in the Odyssey.
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.
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.
The men like to drink and they die
This episode suggests that not all of the men may necessarily want to go home as badly as Odysseus does, and perhaps they would stay some where else if they were allowed.
That is "lotus eaters," encountered by Odysseus and his crew in the Odyssey.
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.
No. The Lotus eaters only ate lotus plants and were peaceful.
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.
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.
"The Odyssey" by Homer references lotus flowers in the episode of Lotus Eaters, where Odysseus's crew encounters a land of lotus-eaters who feed them lotus flowers that cause them to forget their desire to return home and remain trapped on the island.
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lotus flowers to eat
both Odysseus and his men were lashed to the ship to control them.
Because they did not want to return home