52:59 Read the excerpt from Part 1 of The Odyssey by Homer. but on the spot I told them: 'Back, and quickly! Out to sea again!' My men were mutinous, fools, on stores of wine. Sheep after sheep they butchered by the surf, and shambling cattle, feasting,—while fugitives went inland, running to call to arms the main force of Cicones. How does this excerpt prove that Odysseus’s men caused their own problems? by describing their neglect of orders by explaining their military strategy by showing their physical weaknesses by illustrating their cruelty to one another

by describing their neglect of orders

Explanation:

This excerpt proves that Odysseus' men caused their own problems by neglecting the orders of Odysseus to go back to sea.

His men were mutinuous because they were drunk with wine and disregarded the immediate danger they were in which caused them to disobey a direct order from their leader Odysseus.

*Mutiny means rebelling against constituted authority either with the aim to overthrow or cause divisions.

the correct answer is:   [d]:

              →       " fond of fighting " .

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