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The men lost all desire to return to their homeland.
The men lost all desire to return to their homeland.
The men lost all desire to return to their homeland.
The men lost all desire to return to their homeland.
That is "lotus eaters," encountered by Odysseus and his crew in the Odyssey.
The men lost all desire to return to their homeland.
The men lost all desire to return to their homeland.
The men lost all desire to return to their homeland.
The men lost all desire to return to their homeland.
The men lost all desire to return to their homeland.
That is "lotus eaters," encountered by Odysseus and his crew in the Odyssey.
The men lost all desire to return to their homeland.
Odysseus sent three men to seek out the inhabitants of the land and see if they were eaters of bread, i.e. civilized people; the three men encountered the Lotus Eaters and found them to be peaceful and in no way hostile; they gave Odysseus' men the honey sweet fruit of the lotus and the soldiers fell into a state of lethargic bliss and lost all desire to return to their ships.
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.