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 __** Background on the odyssey: **__ The Odyssey begins as a man named Odysseus and his men on their way home from fighting in the Trojan War ran into an island with one eyed creatures called "Cyclopes". These Cyclopes are not the smartest creatures but are very large. = ( [|www.flickr.com] ) =

=**__Info on the Cyclops adventure:__**=  Odysseus and his men went to island of the Cyclops, carrying some special wine as a gift. When they arrive the Cyclops are pasturing their sheep. The men entered a cave where there are cheeses and lambs Odysseus' men want to steal. Odysseus wants them to wait to meet the Cyclops. When the Cyclopes comes in with his animals, he pulls an enormous stone slab against the opening to form a door Odysseus and all his men would be unable to move. The Cyclops asks the strangers who they are. Odysseus answers that they are Greeks from Troy   and that they want his help. The Cyclops replies that he doesn't care about helping the strangers and picks up two of Odysseus' companions for his dinner. After the Cyclops goes to sleep, Odysseus begins to plot how to save their lives and get out of the cave. The next morning, the Cyclops eats another two men and leaves the cave with his flock, pulling closed the stone slab door. Odysseus and his men cut off a length of an olive tree and form it into a pointed spike. When their weapon is completed, they hide it. When the Cyclops returns, he eats two more men. Odysseus offers him his special wine, which the Cyclops accepts and then promises to eat Odysseus last as an exchange gift. He also asks for Odysseus' name, which Odysseus gives as "nhobdy" or 'Nobody'. Then the Cyclops falls asleep drunk. The men heat the point of the spike in the fire and then the men ram it into the Cyclops' eye until it pops out. The Cyclops roars and calls for his brothers. When they come near, they ask him, Polyphemus, what happened. Polyphemus says that "nobody" has hurt him. Then the other Cyclops leave. Just because he's injured doesn't mean he can ignore the needs of his flock, so the next day he lets them out, feeling the fleece on each as it passes. In this way he would have detected the Greeks if they had walked out, but Odysseus had tied them to the bellies of sheep. After they get out undetected, they hurry off with the sheep. Odysseus shouts taunts at Polyphemus who hurls boulders in his direction. The men race away and urge Odysseus not to incite the giant, but Odysseus doesn't listen and tells the Cyclops his name. The Cyclops makes a prayer to his father, Poseidon, to keep Odysseus from reaching his home and to make him lose all his companions.

=    ( [|http://www.mythweb.com/odyssey/book09s.html) Moral:  __** Odysseus should have learned not to rely on others to find supplies and do his work for him. He's the leader of his army, he should find them food and water and other supplies. He also should have learned to stop while he was head. When he and his men went to leave the land of the Cyclopes, Odysseus wanted to make sure he was known as Odysseus not Nhobdy, because he took the eye. As they were leaving he yelled back "Cyclops, if ever mortal man inquire how you were put to shame and blinded, tell him Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye: Laertes' son whose home’s on Ithaca!" He should have just left the island and then they would have been home and everyone would have lived.