Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.
Which central idea should be included in a paraphrase of
The wind that carried west from Ilium
this excerpt?
brought me to Ismarus, on the far shore,
a strongpoint on the coast of Cicones.
• The forces sent by Cicones to fight Odysseus and
I stormed that place and killed the men who fought.
his men arrived during the early morning hours.
Plunder we took, and we enslaved the women,
• Odysseus and his men fought the forces of Cicones
to make division, equal shares to all-
better on the ships than on land.
but on the spot I told them: 'Back, and quickly!
O The forces sent by Cicones to stop the plundering of
'Out to sea again!* My men were mutinous,
Odysseus and his men were skilled and powerful.
fools, on stores of wine. Sheep after sheep they
• Odysseus views the army sent by Cicones as
butchered by the surf, and shambling cattle,
punishment from the Greek god Zeus.
feasting, -while fugitives went inland, running
to call to arms to the main force of Cicones.
This was an army, trained to fight on horseback
or, where the ground required, on foot. They came
with dawn over that terrain like the leaves
and blades of spring. So doom appeared to us,
dark word of Zeus for us, our evil davs.