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For this week in
our readings I choose to focuses on Homer’s Odyssey, more specifically, the
battle and defeat of the Cyclops that captured them.
The Cyclops is a
giant of a creature with only one eye. They are not portrayed as very smart
through the story because they are easily tricked.
The Cyclops does
its morning chores and rewards himself with a snack of 2 of the men. He seals
the cave with a giant stone door that only he can move; he leaves to take his
flocks to graze.
The Cyclops uses a
huge club that looks like the mast of a giant ship as a weapon. The men cut off
a sliver and sharpen it to use as a weapon for their escape. They hid the spear
in dung and planned to stick the Cyclops in the eye when he was asleep.
The Cyclops came
back, moved the stone, again did the same chores as before and ate 2 of the
men. They offer him a big bowl of wine to drink. The Cyclops loved the wine and
demanded more, 3 times filling and drinking the wine. He also asked for a name,
so he too could give a gift.
He told the
Cyclops his name was Nobody, and as his gift for the wine, the Cyclops said he
would eat him last among his friends.
The Cyclops passed
out drunk and gave the men the opportunity they needed. They heated the stake
in the fire and then thrust it into the Cyclops eye, blinding and burning the
Cyclops.
When the other
Cyclops arrives to see what is wrong, he says that “Nobody” is trying to kill
him. They reply “If you
are alone, and nobody does you violence, it’s an inescapable sickness that
comes from Zeus: pray to the Lord Poseidon, our father.”
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