Cyclops

Odysseus uses his best talent to take down a Cyclops. Odysseus and his men go into a cave because they are curious what lives in it and soon find out a human eating Cyclops lives there! Instead of attacking the Cyclops right away, Odysseus decides to trick the Cyclops so when they attack him it won’t bring attention to the other Cyclops. First Odysseus tells the Cyclops that is name is “Nohbdy”(Nobody). Then he shares his wine with the Cyclops. Once the Cyclops was drunk, Odysseus decided to…

is when the cyclops tries to kill Odysseus and his men. When Odysseus ventures into the cyclops, Polyphemus, cave, he sees some pretty disturbing stuff. Polyphemus eats one of his men, and threatens to eat him as well. Odysseus then creates a spear like weapon, intending to hurt the Cyclops. When Odysseus is ready, he plunges the spear into Polyphemus’s eye. It goes into very graphic details at this point in the story. Odysseus tricks the cyclops and escapes. Out of anger, the cyclops…

Odyssey by Homer. Odysseus’ audacity and his fearless-self have kept himself and many of his shipmates alive throughout his voyage back to Ithaca after the War of Troy. Odysseus tricks the Cyclops, Polyphemus, allowing him and his shipmates to safely get out from the island. Upon Odysseus’ arrival to the Cyclops ' cave, he introduced himself, never saying his name, and he begged for help and an extension of hospitality as they were guarded by Zeus, the protector…

island across from the island of the Cyclops. Odysseus and his men rested from the journey and then sailed to the island to explore. When they were on the island they found a cave and went inside it, once inside they discovered that a Cyclops was living inside but not inside the cave when they arrived. Odysseus and his men lit a fire and waited for the Cyclops. When the Cyclops arrived it asked Odysseus what he and his men were doing and where they came from. The Cyclops asked where Odysseus…

enter the cave, only to find a horrible man eating cyclops. The cyclops trapped them in a cave to make matter worse. Comparing this to the Hmong journey, the cyclops symbolizes north vietnamese soldiers, who mercilessly kills the Hmong people, slowly cornering them after the US pulls out of Laos. Continuing where I left off, after the cyclops traps them in, he then goes to sleep because he thinks Odysseus and his men are no threat. While the cyclops is sleeping, Odysseus and his men sharpen a…

O Brother Where Art Thou, is the comedic version of Homer’s Greek tragedy the Odyssey, The Odyssey tells the trials and tribulations of a Greek hero who was coming home from a long war that lasted ten years. The name of the war that lasted those long dreaded years was called, the “Trojan War”. “The Trojan War”, was an epic war that lasted ten years between two great nations, the Greeks and the Trojans. The war was started when Paris the son of Troy stolen Helen of Sparta away from her husband,…

Odysseus and Me Odysseus is a brave, clever, determined man, but he has one trait that went above and beyond the rest. That trait is persistence, which is the action of working towards a goal tirelessly despite being put down at first. Odysseus, from the epic poem the Odyssey, by Homer, defeats every challenge that tries to stop him on his journey home. He refuses to let anything get in his way. Odysseus knows that to reach his goals he must push through the tests and challenges that are in his…

He tricked the Cyclops into eating and drinking heavily, and while it was asleep his crew drove a charred stake into its eye. Overnight, Odysseus comes up with the idea to tie them up to the undersides of the Cyclops’s rams. The following morning, the Cyclops lets his livestock out, and Odysseus and his crew manage to escape to their boat. Had Odysseus not come up with this idea, his crew…

Odysseus proves to be a hero by tricking monsters and taking care of his men; but, he is not heroic because he allows his emotions to defeat him. Odysseus proves to be a hero by tricking monsters, like Polyphemus. When he and his crew go to the cyclops cave, Odysseus wants to go ahead and stab the monster when Polyphemus eats two of his crew men. But, his crew convince him to wait until in the morning…

Cyclopes shore with his crew to find out whether they violent, savage, and lawless or friendly to strangers. Before landing ashore, they catch a glimpse of a Cyclops, “a monster built like no mortal who ever supped on bread”, as Odysseus describes. This Cyclops is Polyphemus, son of Poseidon. Homer uses the physical appearance of the first Cyclops that Odysseus sees to show that they are monsters and that Odysseus should be wary of…