3. While Nausicaa and her maids are playing on the beach, Odysseus, "a terrible sight, all crusted, caked with brine" and naked except for "a leafy branch from the tangled olive growth ... stalked as a mountain lion exultant in his power ... [and like a lion] charges sheep or oxen or chases wild deer ... his hunger drives him on to go for flocks, even to raid the best defended homestead" (6.140-152).
And then while all the girls flee, "only Alcinous' daughter held fast, for Athena planted courage within her heart" (153-154).
Discuss these lines/the scene. Consider that Odysseus is probably 40+ and Nausicaa much younger than 20 (the girls wear their hair in "lovely braids").
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