Question

which excerpt from The Odyssey best demonstrates the importance of perseverance in Greek society? Long ships with good stout planks athwart—would fighters rig them to ride the barren sea, except for hunger? “I learned to keep my head in hardship—years of war and years at sea. Let this new trial come.” The young men, afterward, hunted wild goats with him, and hare, and deer, but he had grown old in his master's absence. No man of woman born could work these wonders by his own craft, unless a god came into it with ease to turn him young or old at will.

Answer 1

Answer:

“I learned to keep my head in hardship—years of war and years at sea. Let this new trial come.”

Explanation:

The above-mentioned excerpt best demonstrates the importance of not giving up in trials in Greek society. The speaker of the above-mentioned lines is determined to stand firm no matter what the problems. The speaker is faced with hunger and and he says that he had faced many wars and had spend hard times at the sea. If now he had to face hunger, he will do so, because he had learned to keep his head in hardship and he will do this time also.

Answer 2

Answer:

“I learned

to keep my head in hardship—years of war

and years at sea. Let this new trial come.”

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