This man's dog Argus dies atop a refuse heap. He reveals himself to a foot-washing maid, Eurycleia ("your-ee-CLAY-uh").
This man's dog Argus dies atop a refuse heap. He reveals himself to a foot-washing maid, Eurycleia ("your-ee-CLAY-uh"). The Laestrygones ("LAY-strih-GOAN-ees") destroy many ships belonging to his fleet, and he also visits the land of the lotos ("lotus") -eaters. He kills his wife's suitors with the help of his son, Telemachus ("TELL-uh-MOCK-us"), then reunites with that wife, Penelope. For 10 points, an epic by Homer describes what man's twenty-year quest to get home after the Trojan War?
This man's dog Argus dies atop a refuse heap. He reveals himself to a foot-washing maid, Eurycleia ("your-ee-CLAY-uh").
{Odysseus} [prompt on {Ulysses}]