Read the passage from the odyssey - amphimedon the swineherd led him to the manor later in rags like a foul beggar, old and broken, propped on a stick. these tatters that he wore hid him so well that none of us could know him when he turned up, not even the older men. we jeered at him, took potshots at him, cursed him. daylight and evening in his own great hall he bore it, patient as a stone. the two similes in the passage present an image of odysseus as elderly but lively. battered but unruffled. dirty but amusing. needy but rude.

The Odyssey is a Greek epic poem formed by 24 parts attributed to Homer, it is considered to be the sequel of the Iliad. It is supposed to have been written in VIII B.C

It narrates the return of the Greek hero Odyssey or Ulises in Roman culture, to his home from the Trojan Wars. The story tells the adventures of Odyssey spending ten years on the war plus ten more years in his return home, at the Ithaca Island. His son Telemachus and his wife Penelope have to withstand a group of men trying to marry Penelope but at the same time consuming the house’s riches. Odyssey finally gets back at his home disguised as an old man so nobody would be suspicious of him and would try to stop him. He kills all the men trying to marry his rightful wife. The best weapon that Odyssey has is his intelligence, courage and the help of the Goddess Athene.

The two similes in the passage present an image of Odysseus as:

battered but unruffled.

Even though he was in rags like a foul beggar, old and broken,... he bore it, patient as a stone.

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b sounds right because none of the others say he was mistreated so id say battered but unruffled

hi,   i believe the outlines that were supposed to be showing at the sentences, are not. could you highlight them somehow?