Which excerpt from The Odyssey best shows that the ancient Greeks greatly valued the idea of home?
O What of those years
of rough adventure, weathered under Zeus?
The wind that carried us west from Ilium
brought me to Ismarus, on the far shore,
a strongpoint on the coast of Cicones.
O And this new grief we bore with us to sea:
our precious lives we had, but not our friends.
No ship made sail next day until some shipmate
had raised a cry, three times, for each poor ghost
unfleshed by the Cicones on that field.
O They fell in, soon enough, with Lotus-Eaters,
who showed no will to do us harm, only
offering the sweet Lotus to our friends-
but those who ate this honeyed plant, the Lotus,
never cared to report, nor to return:
Omt home is on the peaked sea-mark of Ithaca under mount neion’s wind-blown robe of leaves,in sight of other islands—Dulichium, same, wooded Zachynthus—Ithaca being most lofty in that coastal sea,