They take the cheese, they fill up, and against the advice of his men, Odysseus has them wait: wait for the return of the inhabitant.

(For complaints, use After a while, the Cicones eventually managed to get Odysseus and his crew out of their land so Odysseus headed for the next place.

How do the Cyclops get food? A vivid passage: We feel we’re there with them.

Since Odysseus—Nobody—gave him the wine, he’ll eat Nobody last as the guest gift.

He and his men find an unattended cave, filled with cheese, milk, lambs, milking implements, everything in perfect order, a shepherd’s dwelling. They left the land of the Cyclops barely alive.

Odysseus described the island as fertile and self-growing.

So, Odysseus explored the island with a few of his men.

He yells once, taunting him, and the Cyclops hurls a huge chunk of a mountain out at the ship.

But, Eurylochus encouraged the group to kill some for food after they ran out so they did when Odysseus was sleeping. Second, I expected him to not curse anyone since he’s the hero, he’s supposed to be nice and generous. How does this incident show that Odysseus was a good leader?

Learn more about how memories of the Mycenaean era were preserved in oral stories of gods and heroes. “Nobody,” he says, “Nobody is killing me!” His friends let it go at that.

He and his men prepare a sharp stake, rolling an olive log in the fire to sharpen it. The stayed on the island for 9 days. ” The son of Laertes and Anticlea, Odysseus was well known among the Greeks as a most eloquent speaker, an ingenious and cunning trickster.

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Their 10th stop was Scylla and Charbdis. As the Cyclops sleeps, Odysseus thinks seriously about killing the monster, even feeling for the place in his chest where he might stab him. When Polyphemus was screaming for help, he said: “Noman is hurting me!” So, the other cyclops near by didn’t help him since Noman was hurting him. Odysseus is hoping to receive from this inhabitant, whoever he might be, a guest gift, the proper token of hospitality.

I didn’t quite understand the name of this place until I read about it. Polyphemus, as soon as he notices Odysseus and his men, asks who they are; bad manners. The inhabitant turns out to be a massive Cyclops; his name is Polyphemus, a son of the sea god Poseidon. The wine makes Polyphemus drunk and unwary.

I also thought that he would be willing to save his crew from the shipwreck. They were warned not to eat the cows or kill or even harm them. 13.

No one got injured or killed or harmed. What did the men want to do once inside the Cyclops cave? Also, when Odysseus was on Circe’s island: Aeaea, she said that Hermes the messenger god told her of how Odysseus, a man of many wiles would come here. It gave me the impression that Homer just didn’t know what else to say so he made it go by faster.

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He enters the cave with his flocks, closes the entrance of the cave with a huge stone so large, the poet tells us, that 22 wagons couldn’t budge it. Their 6th stop was in Aeaea, the island of Circe where the witch turned his men into pigs at first, but changed them back afterwards she learned that it was Odysseus.

Then, when Polyphemus fell asleep because of the wine, Odysseus bore a hole through his eye and told Polyphemus that his name was Noman.

Antinous ridicules Odysseus, saying that the wine has gone to his head and that he will bring disaster upon himself, just like the legendary drunken centaur Eurytion. He asked Odysseus where his ship was and Odysseus, being smart, told him that it was shattered.Polyphemus also ate 4 of Odysseus’ men. At that point, Odysseus offers Polyphemus the strong wine given to him by Maron. I thought that Alcinous was quite kind to not blame their punishment on Odysseus as he was the cause of it all. Even though he is relatively kind, but when the Phaeacians brought him back to Ithaca and he didn’t realize he was there, he started cursing them. Sadly, when Odysseus was sleeping, his crew opened up the bag with the winds in it out of curiosity and they floated back to Aeolia.

So we seized our stake with its fiery tip Unfortunately, a few of Odysseus’ men eats some lotuses and ends up not wanting to leave.

22. Odysseus is getting ready to shout at the Cyclops again, and his men say, “Please, stop! The cyclops living there didn’t have any skills of any sort and their crops would just grow.

Odysseus was a bit different than I had expected. Change ), Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. How is the Cyclops’s size described? As a Cyclops, he has one round eye in the middle of his forehead. What did Odysseus ask the giant to do and why? Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. He wants to know who’s there in the land of the Cyclopes. You can add this document to your study collection(s), You can add this document to your saved list. Odysseus is getting ready to shout at the Cyclops again, and his men say, “Please, stop! When Polyphemus asks for Odysseus’ name, promising him a guest-gift if he answers, Odysseus says: “I will tell you, but you must give me a guest-gift as you’ve promised. till blood came boiling up around that smoking shaft

It turns out that whoever eats the lotus on that island will get addicted and never want to leave.

Was this decision wise or unwise and why? But Odysseus has given the Cyclops enough information to call down upon him and his men a curse; that is exactly what he does. Odysseus tells him they’re on their way home from Troy—no names—and reminds Polyphemus about proper hospitality: We’re travelers; don’t you owe us a gift?

Back on his ship, making his way to safety, Odysseus can’t help calling out to the Cyclops.

The Cyclops cries out in pain, and his friends—fellow Cyclopes—ask what’s bothering him. Coming ashore at an island close to the land of the Cyclopes, Odysseus notes that it would be a good land for agriculture, a good harbor for ships, and a place with plenty for hunting; but the Cyclopes have no ships and can’t take advantage of all this. Surprisingly, all these prophecies came true which showed me how the Ancient Greeks may have relied on prophecies a lot.

Their 4th stop was the island of Aeolia where they were treated by Aeolus. Finally, Odysseus and his men escaped by hiding under the sheep and going out of the cave safely. He gave them food and shelter and in the end when Odysseus was going to leave, he gifted them with a bag of winds and sent Odysseus on the way.

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What did Maron give Odysseus that was so special? The next evening, as the Cyclops eats several more men, Odysseus offers him some of the powerful wine he’s brought with him, a gift for the Cyclops, in the true spirit of xenia. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. 15. Only now does Odysseus introduce himself by name, telling the Cyclops that his name is Nobody.