#ktimene

Ctimene has a formidable aim

i love eurylochus, for realsies; we don't know much more about his marriage to ktimene than the bare facts of it, but if we can say one thing about him, it's that he had courage. throughout the wanderings portion of the odyssey, he's the spokesperson of the crew's discontent, and that's no easy job. odysseus almost kills him long before the sea (and a desperate choice to die by offending the gods rather than succumb to a slow death by starvation) does. you could say he's foolhardy, or stubborn, or too distrustful, but if you think odysseus is brave for going into circe's house when he knows how dangerous she is, then isn't eurylochus brave to talking back to odysseus when he knows how dangerous he is?