Question

Read the following passage and answer the question.

So by day she'd weave at her great and growing web –

by night, by the light of torches placed beside her,

she would unravel all she's done. Three whole years

she deceived us, seduced us with this scheme.

Who is speaking in the passage above?

Answer 1

Antinous

Step-by-step explanation:

The given passage is from Homer's Odyssey. The options you were given are the following:

• Telemachus
• Halitherses
• Antinous
• Eurymachus

The quoted words are spoken by Antinous, one of two prominent Penelope's suitors. He is shown as a violent, mean-spirited, and over-confident character who defiles Odysseus' home while he is lost at sea. Here, he is speaking about how Penelope tricked her suitors. She pretended to be weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus's father Laertes, claiming that she will choose a suitor once she is finished. She wove it by day and secretly unraveled it by night, managing to deceive them for three years.