A man eating, one eyed creature was trapping Odysseus’s men from leaving his cave. The creature devoured a few of his soldiers in the morning and in the night. So odysseus had to get him and his men out of this death trap. Odysseus prayed to athena and she granted his prayers by giving them a olive branch to be used as a weapon. But they weren’t just going to flat out attack him because the cyclops would have easily defeated the few men in the cave. So they offered the cyclops wine to make the creature drunk and sleepy. As the beast lay there sleeping and drunk, the men forged the branch into a spear and drove it into the cyclops one eye. He was blinded but still managed to do his chores in the morning which included letting his flock out to
