Which excerpt from The Odyssey best demonstrates the importance of perseverance in Greek society?

Question:- Which excerpt from The Odyssey best demonstrates the importance of perseverance in Greek society?

a.       Long ships with good stout planks athwart – would fighters rig them to ride the barren sea, except for hunger?

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

c.       The young men, afterward, hunted wild goats with him, and hare, and deer. but he had grown old in his master’s absence.

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

This option ‘b’ highlights the importance of struggle in hardship. It took years of war and sea voyages to help the speaker learn how to “keep my head” in spite of things. If a new trial presents itself, the speaker is prepared to do battle with it in much the same way.

The tenacity shown here is revealed through abstract experience – the speaker has learned discipline by virtue of participating in war and sailing. This indicates that the Greek society revered learning perseverance in difficult situations. The fact of courage and persistence was viewed as the core virtue.

Furthermore, the passage illustrates that persistence is highly appreciated in various spheres of Greek life. War as well as sailing and exploration require perseverance. Perseverance in the face of any new setback or field work is depicted as praiseworthy.

In conclusion, this passage underscores persistence and maintaining equanimity in the face of misfortune as a valid cultural principle not only for Greek society. Patience for different situation was seen as a virtue to be desired. This sample reveals value in it by highlighting the trials of this speaker that took years and finally led to success due to perseverance.