odyssey
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- THE CYCLOPS' CAVE
- “The rest of you loyal friends stay here, while I and my crew take ship and try and find out who these men are, whether they are cruel, savage and lawless, or good to strangers, and in their hearts fear the gods.”
- POLYHEMUS RETURNS
- “Strangers, who are you? Where do you sail from over the sea-roads? Are you on business, or do you roam at random, like pirates who changed their lives to bring evil to others?”
- TRAPPED
- Poseidon, EarthShaker, smashed my ship to pieces, wrecking her on the rocks that edge your island, driving her close to the headland so the wind threw her onshore. But I and my men here escaped destruction.”
- Odysseus and his friends set sail and they found Cyclops' cave.
- OFFERING THE CYCLOPS WINE
- “Here, Cyclops, have some wine to follow your meal of human flesh, so you can taste the sort of drink we carried in our ship. I was bringing the drink to you as a gift, hoping you might pity me and help me on my homeward path:but your savagery is past bearing. Cruel man, why would anyone on earth ever visit you again, when you behave so badly?”
- Odysseus and his friends found cheese, goats, and sheep in the cave so they waited there for the cyclops to get back.
- BLINDING THE CYCLOPS
- “Polyphemus, what terrible pain is this that makes you call through deathless night, and wake us? Is a mortal stealing your flocks, or trying to kill you by violence or treachery?”
- The cyclops trapped Odysseus and his friends in the cave because the cyclopes didn't want them to steal his stuff.
- Escape
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- “My fine ram, why leave the cave like this last of the flock? You have never lagged behind before, always the first to step out proudly and graze on the tender grass shoots, always first to reach the flowing river, and first to show your wish to return at evening to the fold. Today you are last of all. You must surely be grieving over your master’s eye, blinded by an evil man and his wicked friends
- x
- Odysseus and his friend thought out a plan of escaping and they are now putting it in action.
- Odysseus and his friend stabbed the cyclops' eye so they could escape.
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- Odysseus and his friend escaped by tying themselves to the bottom of the sheep.
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