Read the following passage and answer the question.

[c]arry your well-planed oar until you come
to a race of people who know nothing of the sea,
whose food is never seasoned with salt, strangers all
to ships with their crimson prows and long slim oars,
wings that make ships fly.

who says this and why?

tiresias is telling odysseus how to appease poseidon.
tiresias is telling odysseus how to appease helios if his men kill the cattle.
circe is telling odysseus how to summon the dead.
nausicaa is telling odysseus the way to alcinous's castle.

The correct answer is Tiresias is telling Odysseus how to appease Poseidon.

Explanation:

Odysseus wants to return home, and goes in search of the advice of Tiresias, an old blind fortune teller from the city of Thebes.

Tiresias gives advice and warnings to Odysseus about the trip he will undertake to return home.

He tells him that he will be able to get home again, but that the trip will be very difficult, and that once he gets there, he must appease Poseidon. His words were: “As for yourself, death shall come to you from the sea, and your life shall ebb away very gently when you are full of years and peace of mind, and your people shall bless you. All that I have said will come true.”

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”