The 8 evil thoughts were the Greeks guide to being more pure. The 8 evil thoughts would explain to them what was wrong for them and what was perceived as okay. In “The Cyclops”, Odysseus and his men enter the Cyclopes home and deceive him with their wine. They then attack him by stabbing his eye and blinding him so that they can flea from his cave. During “The Cyclops” Odysseus demonstrates most of the eight evil thoughts but the most illustrated are hyperephania(pride), kenodoxia(boasting) and orge(anger). Pride(hyperephania) can often be calamitous to us when we have a certain amount of self esteem when we have not yet earned it. The narrator illustrates, “Now, by the gods, I drove my big hand spike…” (The Cyclops. 368). Odysseus has an image
