Question

Read this excerpt from Book 24 of Homer's Odyssey, and then complete the sentences.

Then thus the son: "From Alybas I came, My palace there; Eperitus my name Not vulgar born: from Aphidas, the king Of Polyphemon's royal line, I spring. Some adverse demon from Sicania bore Our wandering course, and drove us on your shore; Far from the town, an unfrequented bay Relieved our wearied vessel from the sea. Five years have circled since these eyes pursued Ulysses parting through the sable flood: Prosperous he sail'd, with dexter auguries, And all the wing'd good omens of the skies. Well hoped we then to meet on this fair shore, Whom Heaven, alas! decreed to meet no more."

This excerpt depicts the theme of
- piety
- deception
-cunning

Ulysses tests the loyalty of
-Laertes
-Penelope
-Telemachus

Answer 1

The answer to the first question is deception and the answer to the second question is Laertes.

Answer 2

- Deception.

- Laertes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Based on the excerpt provided in the question, Book XXIV of Homer's epic narrative "The Odyssey" contains the scene where Odysseus had gone to visit his father Laertes. He had grown old, worried about the fate of his son who had gone out of Ithaca so many years ago. Odysseus pretended to be someone named Eperitus who had encountered Odysseus. This scene depicts the theme of deception where the son pretends to be a stranger, testing the loyalty of his own father. The recollection of the old father about his son made Odysseus reveal his true identity to his father and both had a teary but happy reunion in the end.