Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Reading Notes A: Odyssey: The Cyclops Defeated


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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.”
 bibliography: Homer's Odyssey, The Cyclops Defeated, http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/05/odyssey-cyclops-defeated.html



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