Read the passage from The Odyssey - Amphimedon. The swineherd led him to the manor later in rags like a foul beggar, old and broken, propped on a stick. These tatters that he wore hid him so well that none of us could know him when he turned up, not even the older men. We jeered at him, took potshots at him, cursed him. Daylight and evening in his own great hall he bore it, patient as a stone. The two similes in the passage present an image of Odysseus as
Odysseus is described as wearing rags, looking old and broken, and leaning on a stick, so he appears battered. But although the suitors jeer at and curse him, he endures it patiently “as a stone,” suggesting he remains calm and unruffled. Therefore, the similes present him as battered but unruffled.
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