Cyclopes Island
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- "In the next land we found were Cyclopes,giants, louts, without a law to bless them." (374, 55-56)
- "I wishedto see the caveman, what he had to offer no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends." (376, 130-133)
- "He left his ramsand he-goats in the yard outside, and swunghigh overhead a slab of solid rockto close the cave." (374, 141-144)
- Odysseus and his men finally arrive on Cyclops Island after a long restless journey at sea
- Odysseus's men want to take the Cyclops's food and supplies and leave, but Odysseus chooses to wait because he wants to see the Cyclops.
- As they wait for the Cyclops to return, he comes back and blocks the door with a heavy boulder, blocking them in
- While the cyclops eats Odysseus's men one by one, Odysseus and the rest of his men stab the cyclops eye so they can escape
- "Eyelid and lash were seared; the pierced ballhissed broiling, and the roots popped." (380, 298-299)
- After blinding the cyclops they escape hiding under rams
- "I took the woolliest ram, the choicest of the flock,and hung myself under his kinky belly,pulled up tight, with fingers twisted deepin sheepskin ringlets for an iron grip." (382, 341-345)
- The cyclops curses them under the name of Poseidon as they escape into the seas again
- "O hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands,if I am thine indeed, and thou art father:grant that Odysseus, raider of cities, neversee his home" (384, 443-446)
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