"just as the eagle swooped down from the crags where it was born and bred, just as it snatched that goose fattened up for the kill inside the house" who says the above and why? athena is warning telemachus about the suitors' ambush. odysseus is telling eumaeus of odysseus's return. helen is interpreting a sign of odysseus's return. eumaeus is telling the stranger about what happened to the goose they were supposed to have for breakfast.

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver. the use of the epic simile in this excerpt readers understand that— they cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus men. odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved my the giant cyclops the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings