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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: cattle, I will go down to Hades and shine among the dead."
'And Zeus the cloud-gatherer answered him, saying: "Helios,
do thou, I say, shine on amidst the deathless gods, and
amid mortal men upon the earth, the grain-giver. But as for
me, I will soon smite their swift ship with my white bolt,
and cleave it in pieces in the midst of the wine-dark
deep."
'This I heard from Calypso of the fair hair; and she said
that she herself had heard it from Hermes the Messenger.
'But when I had come down to the ship and to the sea, I
went up to my companions and rebuked them one by one; but
The Odyssey |
