Polyphemus

stems from his ability to think on his feet, even in the most nerve wracking and deadly situations; whether it be sweet talking Phaeacians or outsmarting a Cyclops. Odysseus is consistently multiple steps ahead of his enemies. In conversation with Polyphemus, the giant “laid his trap but he never caught [Odysseus,] no, wwise to the world [Odysseus] shot back in his craft way (220).” Indeed, it is his craftiness that later rescue his men from certain doom. At times, his preparedness and his quick…

Both the book and the movie provide the audience with a description of Polyphemus; however, the movie version did not capture the same effects as the book. The Odyssey shows Polyphemus as the Cyclops who has a bulky figure with smashed-in nose, crooked teeth, and a beady eye. These features of the Cyclops evoke comments from the audience along the lines of “he is unappealing”…

do you a favor. I’ll eat you last.” said Polyphemus while me and the other men are watching them having a conversation and trapped inside the cave of Polyphemus. During our journey of going home, The sight of him brought us Greeks to fullest attention. He was as big as a barn, with a single glaring eye in the middle of his forehead. He was one of the Cyclopes, giant blacksmiths who had built Olympus for the gods. This particular Cyclops was named Polyphemus. Only a few steps outside his cave was…

Homer narrates various intriguing moments of conflict including those between Odysseus and Polyphemus, and the conflict between Odysseus…

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 Cyclops to escape the island, he demonstrates hyperephania (pride), philargyria (greed), and kenodoxia (boasting). The first evil thought, pride, is the expectation…

Odysseus has injured the Cyclops, Polyphemus is furious and prays to his father Poseidon that Odysseus will never see his home again. However, if he does get home “Far be that day, and dark the years between. Let him lose all companions” (Homer, 997). Poseidon hears the prayer of Polyphemus and by throwing a large stone causes a storm to strike the ships of Odysseus and take them to an island. When they get to the island they kill sheep they had taken from Polyphemus, particularly a large ram.…

Demodocus, Polyphemus, Tiresias, and Odysseus’s dog- Argos throughout the epic: All have some sort of visual impairment for a very important reason. We also meet Penelope and other characters who don’t see Odysseus, even without being visually impaired. Now in the film O’ Brother Where Art Thou, which is loosely based off Homer’s epic, we meet visually impaired…

intelligence which is part of what the Greeks valued. Odysseus is strong willed and he puts his life at risk when trying to save his men from all the dangers throughout the journey. Odysseus uses the Trojan Horse Trick to win the Trojan War and he tricks Polyphemus into thinking that his name was “nohbdy” which is evidence from the Odyssey that shows that Odysseus is intelligent. Also, he takes Circe’s advice on how to avoid the Sirens which makes him strong willed because Circe tells him to…

reactions to people. Those feelings are sympathy and empathy. In Homer’s The Odyssey many characters lack these feelings. When Odysseus encounters Polyphemus, he shows hardly any empathy in the way Polyphemus lives. When Odysseus meets Polyphemus he demands that Polyphemus should give him food and water. Odysseus does not hold any sort of respect for Polyphemus, but he does show empathy in some of his actions that he takes to save his followers. While Odysseus does not show empathy or…

Cyclops’ island and approach the Cyclops’ cave. If Odysseus hadn’t settled on greeting Polyphemus, he wouldn’t have lost men and they wouldn’t have been trapped with no way out besides relocating the boulder. Suddenly, Odysseus thought of a plan to escape the cave where Polyphemus would remove the boulder, but wouldn’t be able to catch Odysseus and his men from escaping. Odysseus’ idea was to make Polyphemus blind, so he would move the boulder and not be able to catch Odysseus and his men.…