Cyclops

The Odyssey is filled with many great worriers, kings, gods, and heroes. Great gods like Zeus and Athena who helped Odysseus get back to his homeland. Great heroes like, Telemachus, Odyssey’s son who went out and looked for his father even though he did not know if he was still alive or not. Heroes like, Eumaeus, a shepherd who helped Odysseus reclaim his throne after returning back to Ithaca. The greatest of all the heroes is Odysseus, but is he really? Is Odysseus the hero that is…

Thesis- The movie “O Brother Where Art Thou” is better than the epic poem “The Odyssey” because the main characters stay similar, it has many supernatural points, and the setting is better. The first reason is the main character stays the same. In the movie Ulysses fulfills the role of Odysseus. Odysseus and Ulysses are similar in many ways, one of the ways that sticks out the most is their pride. Ulysses refuses to make change for anything he does not believe in. In the movie he refuses to use…

At first, he tells the cyclops that his name was “Nobody”, which was a highly strategic move. However, Odysseus fell prey to his hubris, and told the Cyclops his actual name. The Cyclops prayed for Odysseus to return home a “broken man…” (228). Even though Odysseus is unparalleled from a human standpoint (like Lancelot), he is mortal. He cannot fight against…

A true hero, such as Odysseus, should be courageous and never turn down a worthy challenge. In one of many scenarios where he shows courage, Odysseus and some of his men are trapped in the cave of Polyphemus, a solitary Cyclops, who periodically eats a few men. Odysseus is carrying out his escape plan, he says, "Courage-no panic, no one hang back now!" (Homer, 19). When Odysseus says this, he is attempting to rouse courage into his men, because their escape will undoubtedly…

Odysseus is a victorious Greek hero who wants to return to his homeland of Ithaca to see his wife Penelope. To get to Ithaca he needs to go on a long journey home, but along his way he and his crew run into many obstacles including sirens, witches, cyclops, and syllaca. Once he returned home to Ithaca he had to show everyone that he was Odysseus through many challenges and fights. In the movie, ¨Toy…

who knows how to handle anything thrown his way. Another example is his encounter with the Cyclops (Laestrygonians). When Odysseus attacks him, he does not say his own name until the very end. Instead, he cleverly tells him his name is ‘Nobody’, so when the Cyclops shouts out who is attacking him, it is indeed “Nobody”. However, once he gets away, Odysseus makes sure to leave his actual name with the Cyclops. Poseidon was not a huge fan of Odysseus, yet Odysseus did not let it get to him; even…

While Odysseus is traveling the the rest of his crew, trying to get home the get trapped by the cyclops, they are tempted by the sirens, the men get turned into pigs, and they face Scylla and Charybdis while they are sailing. While Frodo is traveling to Mordor, Frodo is attacked by many dark riders, they are chased by many goblins and a huge fire demon…

I believe Odysseus is a hero despite some of his actions I think he is a beast. I think Odysseus is a hero because he safely navigated out of a storm that came out of Poseidon's wrath. He also escaped Polyphemus and his island of cannibalistic cyclops. He also killed off the strongest men in Ithaca and took back his kingdom. Imagine being caught in one of those scenes in a movie where people on a fishing boat are stuck out in the middle of a storm while trying to haul in the biggest fish…

allowed Polyphemus to call upon his father for vengeance, and the hero spends the rest of his long journey hounded by a wrathful Poseidon. However, despite the influence that the cyclops has on the plot, there is no mention of Polyphemus’ early life. According to Luke Roman’s Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology the cyclops was head over heals for the nymph and goddess of calm seas, Galatea. The legends differ of their relationship. In some Galatea was in love with a mortal who was killed,…

In the midst of a confrontation with a menacing Cyclops several times his size with no hopes of fleeing, he had no choice but to watch Polyphemus greedily gorge his men whole. Nonetheless, this compelled him to start analyzing his surroundings to formulate an escape plan. “He left me there, plotting a nasty scheme deep in my heart, some way of gaining my revenge on him…An enormous club belonging to the Cyclops was lying there beside a stall…Moving over to it, I chopped off a piece…