Polyphemus

Odysseus is a greeks who made it back to his home. Odysseus was fated to wander the longest twenty years. Among the Trojan women Hecuba fell to him, an old harridan now who could not forgive the way Odysseus had thrown her grandson Astyanax from the walls of Troy. Odysseus' ships were hit by the storm raised by Athena and were blown to Thrace. Sick of Hecuba's insults, he and his men stoned her to death. In Thrace Odysseus sacked the city of the Cicones, sparing only a priest of Apollo, who…

our houses.In “The Odyssey”, Homer makes it so people who aren't hospitable die or get injured. Homer shows the importance of Xenia in ancient Greece by making it an deciding factor in an characters fate like the suitors and the cyclops, Polyphemus. Polyphemus wasnt hospital to Odysseus and his men to his men and this is what causes odysseus to decide to stab his eye out. When odysseus arrives the cyclops says '"Stranger, you are a simple fool, or come from far off, when you tell me to avoid…

Poseidon. Odysseus leads his men to victory and thinks it was all his doing which angers Poseidon. Poseidon then punishes Odysseus by extending his journey through harsh storms. Secondly, After Odysseus defeats Polyphemus, he shouts his real name from his ship out of pride. As a result, Polyphemus, son of Poseidon asks his father to curse Odysseus’ journey so that it will take him longer to return home. Poseidon answers his son’s prayer and once again delays Odysseus’ arrival home by causing…

their discoveries back to the ship, but out of curiosity, Odysseus decides to remain and wait for the resident of this cave to return. To his surprise, it was the Polyphemus, son of Poseidon and one of the cyclopes on this land. After attempting to manipulate Polyphemus in presenting gifts to his guests, Odysseus and his men, Polyphemus becomes hostile to them. This results in consuming them and imprisons Odysseus and his men in the cave for later…

Polyphemus’s cave. He uses this to manipulate Polyphemus into a false sense of security, the Cyclops going so far as to tell Odysseus that he will make him a “gift that will please (Homer 306),” implying that Polyphemus believes Odysseus is being honest and sincere. Because Odysseus planned ahead, he then tells the giant that his name is, instead, “Nohbdy,” which will later…

where the protagonist Odysseus faces the fearsome cyclop Polyphemus, Odysseus can be identified as the hero. The hero is the one who shows courage in challenging situations, who seeks ways to improve the world and who strives to be strong and fears to be weak. All these definitions can be related back to Odysseus, who had used his cunningness and courage to rescue his men and himself in a seemingly hopeless situation. Furthermore, Polyphemus, the Cyclop, can be seen as the outlaw as the outlaw…

for not being loyal. He was arrogant when it came to the bag of wind because his arrogant odysseus was not able to control his men. His men opened the bag of wind and sent them the other way away from Ithaca. He stabbed the polyphemus then after leaving his cave, the polyphemus and he tried to throw a big rock at Odysseus’s ship before he left.…

A Cyclops, Polyphemus, devoured two of Odysseus’ men, which is against the law of Xenia. Odysseus and the other men were trapped, the only way of escape covered by a stone. Odysseus planned to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in the eye, but first needed to distract the cyclops. Odysseus presented Polyphemus wine, as a fake offering of peace in order to divert his attention. Faced with strangers whom he did not practice good Xenia towards, Polyphemus allowed himself to give into…

challenges, including when he had to outsmart Cyclops Polyphemus and survive Poseidon’s attack. These challenges killed all of his crew and delayed Odysseus’ return to Ithaca. Odysseus then faced another challenge when he fought for his family and power in Ithaca against the suitors. In The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles, Odysseus…

first law of hospitality.” (Margaret Way) To not bored the guest they had conversations or the host bring out entertainment such as kottabos (a board game), music, dancers and acrobats. In the Odyssey the Cyclops, Polyphemus ate some of Odysseus crew members. Here he offered wine to Polyphemus get him drunk and try to escape while they still live. “Cyclops, try some wine/ Here’s liquor to wash down your scraps of men/ Taste it, and see the kind of drink we carried/ under our planks. I meant it…