Who is the speaker in this excerpt from Book 13 of Homer's Odyssey, and what inference can you make from the tone? Shall then no more, O sire of gods! be mine The rights and honours of a power divine? Scorn'd e'en by man, and (oh severe disgrace!) By soft Phaeacians, my degenerate race! Against yon destined head in vain I swore, And menaced vengeance, ere he reach'd his shore; To reach his natal shore was thy decree; Mild I obey'd, for who shall war with thee? Behold him landed, careless and asleep, From all the eluded dangers of the deep; Lo where he lies, amidst a shining store Of brass, rich garments, and refulgent ore; And bears triumphant to his native isle A prize more worth than Ilion's noble spoil.

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Nikolas Gilbert

14 November, 07:08

Who is the speaker in this excerpt from Book 13 of Homer's Odyssey, and what inference can you make from the tone? Shall then no more, O sire of gods! be mine The rights and honours of a power divine? Scorn'd e'en by man, and (oh severe disgrace!) By soft Phaeacians, my degenerate race! Against yon destined head in vain I swore, And menaced vengeance, ere he reach'd his shore; To reach his natal shore was thy decree; Mild I obey'd, for who shall war with thee? Behold him landed, careless and asleep, From all the eluded dangers of the deep; Lo where he lies, amidst a shining store Of brass, rich garments, and refulgent ore; And bears triumphant to his native isle A prize more worth than Ilion's noble spoil.

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The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "Homer." The speaker in this excerpt from Book 13 of Homer’s Odyssey, and what inference can you make from the tone is Homer. "Shall then no more, O sire of gods! be m ine The rights and honours of a power divine? ..."