Asked by Cayden Casto
Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.
Treated as rubbish now, he lay at last
upon a mass of dung before the gates—
manure of mules and cows, piled there until
fieldhands could spread it on the king's estate.
Abandoned there, and half destroyed with flies,
old Argus lay.
What functions as a symbol in this excerpt?
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Argus
Argus
Odysseus
Odysseus
a mule
a mule
the king
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Argus.
He symbolizes loyal devotion and the neglected, decayed state of Odysseus’s household/Ithaca: though abandoned and abused, Argus still recognizes his master, then dies—emphasizing faithful loyalty and the ruin caused by Odysseus’s long absence.
He symbolizes loyal devotion and the neglected, decayed state of Odysseus’s household/Ithaca: though abandoned and abused, Argus still recognizes his master, then dies—emphasizing faithful loyalty and the ruin caused by Odysseus’s long absence.
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