Cyclops

milk and cheese. Assuming that the cyclops would follow the greeks Xenia, Odysseus decides to wait for him to return and see what the cyclops would offer to his visitors. After the cyclops ordeal, as Odysseus and what remains of the crew he lead in these are sailing away, Odysseus shouts out to the blinded Cyclops his name, so he could be the one credited with blinding the cyclops. Instead of leaving while they had a chance, once they were full, Odysseus selfishly decides to stay. The result of his decision to stay, he loses four men. By shouting out his name to the cyclops enables the cyclops to curse him. This endangers the crew…

Analysis of “The Cyclops” Ancient Grecians lived by a philosophy that many still follow today, “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” They were advocates of hedonism and sought out pleasure in all regards of life. In the play “The Cyclops” by Euripides, we see a person named Odysseus use the pleasures of man to trick the one-eyed giant Cyclops, Polyphemus, escape death, and find his way out of a tough situation. “The Cyclops”, written around 408 BC, is the only known complete satyr…

In the excerpt from The Odyssey, Part 1 by Homer, Odysseus and his crew are on an empty island where they spend their time drinking wine, eating wild goat, and examining the land where the cyclopes live. The cyclops live across from the island that Odysseus is on and its known as “The land of cyclops”. One day Odysseus wants to go over to the island and actually explore it so he does and he takes his best men with him. When they get to the cave where the cyclops stays he is not there, because…

The ancient Greeks created a moral code that consisted of eight evil thoughts that they believed made a person less human. A couple of these evil thoughts are demonstrated in the episode “The Cyclops” in the epic The Odyssey. In “The Cyclops” a storm blows Odysseus onto an island. He is trapped on the island with some of his men, and Odysseus must try to escape the island with his men by killing the Cyclops Polyphemus, son of Poseidon. While Odysseus tries to save his men and defeat the…

Odysseus and The Cyclops In Homer’s epic novel, The Odyssey, Odysseus and his men stumble upon an island full of man eating cyclops, and immediately are shown how the cyclops do not respect the gods, nor their rules of xenia when a cyclops named Polyphemus grabs two of Odysseus's men, kills them, and eats them like nothing. When Odysseus and his crew first arrive at the cyclops’ island they are confused by the way the cyclops acts and tells him that he should “respect the gods” and follow the…

Polyphemus lived in a cave and had a trait of cruelty. He was a man-eating Cyclops. One of the well-known myths of the Greek is that of the Cyclops and the Odysseus. The narration was done by Homer. The myth about Odysseus and Cyclops is about a giant Cyclops who is one-eyed. The giant threatened and almost brought the era of Odysseus the hero to an end. In the Greek mythology, Cyclops is among the most memorable characters. This myth inspired a lot of artists due to its cunningness and…

Polyphemus the Cyclops who is eating his men. First, at the beginning when the Cyclops had devoured two men from Odysseus’ crew, the crew then “Cried aloud, lifting… [their] hands to Zeus, powerless, looking on at this, appalled” (9). It is clear that Odysseus is terrified of the Cyclops. He is unable to do anything but pray to Zeus, powerless and afraid. As the story progresses Odysseus develops to be more courageous. At the middle of the story, Odysseus is brave enough to confront the Cyclops…

Two Types of Monsters The scene between Odysseus and the Cyclops, Polyphemus, in Homer’s Odyssey is universally recognized as one of the greatest displays of cunning in ancient Western literature. Odyssey is the narration of the epic hero, Odysseus, and his journey home to his native land, Ithaca, after the fall of Troy. Throughout the narrative, Odysseus meets and interacts with a wide array of characters—gods, creatures, and humans. In Book 9, Odysseus and his men come to the land of the…

The Ancient Greeks had a moral code known as the 8 evil thoughts. The indulgence of these thoughts were believed to degrade one’s humanity. “The Cyclops” is the 4th episode of The Odyssey in which the narrator Odysseus and his men steal from the cyclops known as Polyphemus. Polyphemus then begins to eat some of them out of rage, and Odysseus conceives a plan in which Polyphemus is left blind and enraged. Odysseus demonstrates 2 of the 8 evil thoughts known as Hyperephania and Kenodoxia, also…

Annotated Bibliography Clancy, Paul “Cyclops, Part 2: Secondhand stories- and a photo- sail in.” Virginian Pilot 30 Jan. 2011. This article is valuable for research because it analyzes the mysterious disappearance of the USS Cyclops, a WWI cargo ship, which was used to transport combat materials from the Caribbean back to Baltimore. It provides many alternate theories to what happened to it, including the best possible theory, based on the research that has been discovered and examined. It was…