Read the following excerpt from the odyssey.
as he was thus speaking a bird flew on his right hand - an eagle with a great white goose in its talons which it
had carried off from the farm yard - and all the men and women were running after it and shouting. it came
quite close up to them and flew away on their right hands in front of the horses. when they saw it they were
glad, and their hearts took comfort within them,
butler, book 15
in no less than 150 words, explain the implication of the birds and other details of the incident in the greek culture of
homer, of their import in the story, and what response the main character had to its explanation.
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