Book 9 scrapbook

After escaping from the land of Cicones, Zeus sent out a nine-day storm while they were getting to a new island, The Lotus eaters.

When they get to the land of lotus-eaters, the people offer Odysseus and his crew some of the lotus. When some of his crew eats it they forget that they want to go home and continue eating the fruit. To get his men back, Odysseus drags them to the boat and locks them up.

When they got to the land of Sicily they saw a cave with milk, cheese, and sheep and decided to explore it.

Later the Cyclos, Polyphemus enters the cave and closes a big rock at the entrance. Polyphemus is hostile at first but turns on them and eats two of Odysseus' men and imprisons Odysseus and the rest in his cave for future meals.

Odysseus offers the Cyclops wine, Which the Cyclops accepts and asks for Odysseus' name. Odysseus responds by saying his name is “Nohbody”. The Cyclops says that he will eat him last.

Polyphemus drank the wine until he fell asleep. While sleeping, Odysseus and his crew sharpened a tree branch they found and stabbed the Cyclops in his eye.

Polyphemus screamed in agony and cried out, "Nobody has stabbed me!" The other Cyclops were confused, as they couldn't understand why he was screaming if nobody had stabbed him. They tried making sense of the situation, but they decided to leave after some time.

The next day, Odysseus and his men hid under the sheep while the blind Cyclops looked for them. They eventually escaped to their ships and set sail for the next island.