CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Aeaea, Odysseus, Laestrygonians
25 Jan 2018
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Odysseus manages to escape the land of the cyclopes. Polyphemus prays to his father, to pass in days to come, that by the hands of odysseus i should lose my sight. Poseidon that (cid:498)never reaches his home, the son of laertes, whose home is in ithaca(cid:499). a ship that is another(cid:495)s; and may he find trouble in his house. (cid:495) giant who proceeds as well to eat sinbad(cid:495)s crew. Sinbad and his men also go into the giant(cid:495)s layer and blind him with the xxx. They escape on a raft as the giant screams in. Poseidon hears the prayer of his son and accepts to punish odysseus for blinding. The story of polyphemus is very famous; it inspired other tales in other cultures such as the tale of the medieval hero sinbad the sailor in arabian nights. Sinbad also makes a journey; in his third voyage, he drifts on an island inhabited by a pain.
