Question

Explain what happens to the mariners once they eat the lotos

Answer 1

Explanation:

The Mariners were greeted by the “mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters”. These Lotos-eaters offer the flower and fruit of the lotos to Odysseus's mariners, who on its consumption loosens their intellectual capacity, and falls into a deep sleep. ... The lotos fruit hypnotized them.