It portrays the rest of the crew as babies devoid of intelligence who need Odysseus simply to survive. In this simile the shipmates are being compared to calves rushing to meet their mothers or in this case, Odysseus. His crew reacts rather emotionally at the sight of the unharmed Odysseus. This part occurs when Odysseus returns from the island of Circe unscathed, unlike his other comrades from before. There are several inferences that can be made from this epic simile. ‘You’re back again, my king! How thrilled we are-Īs if we’d reached our country, Ithaca, at last!īut come, tell us about the fate our comrades met.’ (10.449-65) Ithaca’s rocky soil where they were bred and reared.Īnd through their tears their words went winging home: They’d made it back to their own land, their city,
So deeply moved in their hearts they felt as if So my shipmates there at the sight of my return came pressing round me now, streaming tears, Lowing nonstop, jostling, rushing round their mothers. Once they’ve grazed their fill-as all their young calvesĬome frisking out to meet them, bucking out of their pens,
Down I went to the swift ship at the water’s edge,Īnd there on the decks I found my loyal crewĬonsumed with grief and weeping live warm tears.īut now, as calves in stalls when cows come home,ĭroves of them herded back from field to farmyard
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