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Fictional people in Homer's Odyssey

In Greek mythology, the lotus eaters (λωτοφάγοι (lōtophágoi)) were a race of people living on an island dominated by the lotus tree, a plant whose botanical identity is uncertain. The lotus fruits and flowers were the primary food of the island and were a narcotic, causing the inhabitants to sleep in peaceful apathy. After they ate the lotus, they would forget their home and loved ones and long only to stay with their fellow lotus eaters. Those who ate the plant never cared to report or return. Figuratively, 'lotus eaters' denotes "people who spend their time indulging in pleasure and luxury rather than dealing with practical concerns".

In English, the lotus eaters (, lōtophágoi), are also referred to as the lotophagi or lotophaguses (singular lotophagus /l//ə/'/t//ɒ//f//ə//ɡ//ə//s/) or lotophages (singular lotophage '/l//oʊ//t//ə//f//eɪ//dʒ/).

Because the Greek word λωτός lōtós can refer to several different plants, there is some ambiguity as to which "lotus" appears in the Odyssey.

British romantic composer Edward Elgar set to music the first stanza of the "Choric Song" portion of Tennyson's poem The Lotos Eaters for a cappella choir in 1907 to 1908. The work, "There is Sweet Music" (op. 53, no. 1), is a quasi double choir work in which the female choir responds the male choir in a different tonality. British romantic composer, Hubert Parry, wrote a half hour choral setting of Tennyson's poem for soprano, choir, and orchestra. In the book Percy Jackson & the Olympians, the characters of Percy, Annabeth and Grover find themselves in a hotel in Vegas during book 1, The Lightning Thief, called the Lotus Hotel and Casino. They fall victim to the Lotus Eaters before Percy manages to regain control over himself and drags his friends out, finding they had missed five days and now had only one day to finish their quest to find and return Zeus' stolen Master Bolt to prevent a war of the gods. Season 2, episode 4 of the CBS series Star Trek Strange New Worlds originally airing July 6, 2023 is titled "Among The Lotus Eaters." The premise of the episode takes place around the crew of the USS Enterprise encountering a population on an alien planet being affected by a form of radiation that causes them to lose their memories at the end of every day.