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The lotus fruit is about the size of the lentisk berry and in sweetness resembles the date. [6] The lotus-eaters even succeed in obtaining from it a sort of wine. [7] Polybius identifies the land of the lotus-eaters as the island of Djerba (ancient Meninx), off the coast of Tunisia. [1] Later, this identification is supported by Strabo. [8]
The lotus tree (Ancient Greek: λωτός, lōtós) is a plant that is referred to in stories from Greek and Roman mythology. The lotus tree is mentioned in Homer 's Odyssey as bearing a fruit that caused a pleasant drowsiness, and which was said to be the only food of an island people called the Lotophagi or lotus-eaters .
The story of The Lotos-Eaters comes from Homer's The Odyssey. However, the story of the mariners in Homer's work has a different effect from Tennyson's since the latter's mariners are able to recognize morality. Their arguments are also connected to the words spoken by Despair in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book One. With the connection ...
Lotus-eaters: Djerba, following Polybius (1.2.17) Cyclops: south-east Sicily, near Etna and Lentini (1.2.9); also suggests that Homer "borrowed his idea of the one-eyed Cyclopes from the history of Scythia, for it is reported that the Arimaspians are a one-eyed people" (1.2.10) Aeolus: Lipari, among the Aeolian Islands north of Sicily
Scylla and Charybdis were mythical sea monsters noted by Homer; Greek mythology sited them on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina between Sicily and Calabria, on the Italian mainland. Scylla was rationalized as a rock shoal (described as a six-headed sea monster) on the Calabrian side of the strait and Charybdis was a whirlpool off the ...
Celtis australis is supposed to have been the Lotus of the ancients, whose fruit Herodotus, Dioscorides, and Theophrastus describe as sweet, pleasant, and wholesome. Homer has Ulysses refer to the "Lotus-eaters" and the "lotus" in Odyssey, Book IX. [6] It is often planted as an ornamental as it is long-living and resistant to air pollution.
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A Thorneloe University document, "Modern Interpretations of the Lotus-Eaters", notes the parallels between the episode and Homer's Odyssey episode of the Lotus-eaters: "These two stories share a particular theme: the diversion or halting of one’s journey (either deliberately or accidentally) and how real life (i.e. the journey itself) cannot ...