Here are the means i thought would serve my turn:

a club, or staff, lay there along the fold—
an olive tree, felled green and left to season
for cyclops' hand. and it was like a mast
a lugger of twenty oars, broad in the beam—
a deep-sea-going craft—might carry:
so long, so big around, it seemed.

based on the epic simile, how should the reader picture the beam of wood odysseus found in the cave?

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.

Which statement about this passage best explains that the culture is patriarchal?

Why did the mongoose fail to remove the black rat population from hawaii on mongoose