Question

of the cyclopes. polyphemus is son to poseidon by the nymph thoosa, daughter to the sea - king phorcys; therefore though he will not kill odysseus outright, he torments him by preventing him from getting home. still, let us lay our heads together and see how we can help him to return; poseidon will then be pacified, for if we are all of a mind he can hardly stand out against us. and athena said, father, son of cronus, king of kings, if, then, the gods now mean that odysseus should get home, we should first send hermes to the ogygian island to tell calypso that we have made up our minds and that he is to return. in the meantime i will go to ithaca, to put heart into odysseus son telemachus; i will embolden him to call the achaeans in assembly, and speak out to the suitors of his mother penelope, who persist in eating up any number of his sheep and oxen; i will also conduct him to sparta and to pylos, to see if he can hear anything about the return of his dear father - for this will make people speak well of him. which characters are speaking in this passage? poseidon and calypso athena and zeus hermes and hera

Explanation:

The passage starts with an unnamed speaker (presumably Zeus as Athena addresses him as "Father, son of Cronus, King of kings" later). Athena then responds with her plan, indicating that the two speaking characters are Athena and Zeus.

Answer:

B. Athena and Zeus