Read the excerpt from Part 1 of The Odyssey by Homer.


My 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 Zacynthus—Ithaca

being most lofty in that coastal sea,

and northwest, while the rest lie east and south.

A rocky isle, but good for a boy's training;

I shall not see on earth a place more dear,

though I have been detained long by Calypso


Based on the evidence provided, readers can conclude that Odysseus