People · Character in Homer’s Odyssey
The Lotus-eaters
Eaters of the forgetting flower
Mild hosts meaning no harm; their welcome erases the way home.
A mild people who offer their food to strangers and mean no harm by it. The scouts who taste it lose all wish to go home and have to be dragged back and tied under the benches.
Bonds
- The Lotus-eaters hosts of Odysseus — give the lotus; his scouts forget home
- The Lotus-eaters dwell in Lotus-land — the coast of the drug-flower
Appears in
- Book IX The Ciconians, Lotus-Eaters, and Cyclops
Scenes
- Storm and the Lotus-eaters — Book IX. Blown to Lotus-eaters, scouts drugged