What character trait does Penelope demonstrate when she calls for the suitors to hold a contest? What other character has a similar trait? A. She demonstrates cleverness, like Odysseus does when he tricks and overcomes foes.
B. She demonstrates hospitality, like the Phaeacians do when Odysseus lands on their island.
C. She demonstrates a lack of confidence, like Telemachus does when he fails to kick out the suitors.
D. She demonstrates a lack of self control, like Odysseus’s men do when they slaughter Helios’s cattle.

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?