|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: 'Swineherd, who is this stranger but newly come to our
house? From what men does he claim his birth? Where are his
kin and his native fields? Hapless is he, yet in fashion he
is like a royal lord; but the gods mar the goodliness of
wandering men, when even for kings they have woven the web
of trouble.'
So he spake, and came close to him offering his right hand
in welcome, and uttering his voice spake to him winged
words:
'Father and stranger, hail! may happiness be thine in the
time to come; but as now, thou art fast holden in many
The Odyssey |
