A Greek word for the return home, which gives the poem its subject. When the story begins, all the survivors of Troy have already returned, except Odysseus, and the returns of the other heroes, that of Agamemnon, killed at home, and that of Menelaus, who wandered eight years before arriving, are told as mirrors of his. The Lotus-eaters offer a fruit that makes one forget the nostos, and it is to prevent this that Odysseus takes his companions to the ships by force.
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