The Odyssey
Similes from the Odyssey
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Simile:
"great Odysseus melted into tears... as a woman weeps, her arms flung around her darling husband, a man who fell in battle... So from Odysseus' eyes ran tears of heartbreak now" (8.586-597)
"They speared the crews like fish and whisked them home to make their grisly meal" (10.135-136)
The Odyssey