Driven by the sea strorms, Odyseus and his men end up in the land of the Lotus Eaters, where some of the local inhabitants give some fruit which included 'forgetfulness', so that they forget about their journey and their goal to reach home. Odysseus sees that some of his men had eaten the lotus flower and forgot of home and their family, and want nothin more than to stay in the island. Odysseus forced the rest of his men back to the ships
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