HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cicones, Polyphemus, Odysseus
11 Jan 2020
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Alkinoos wants to know odysseus life and how he got to the island: odysseus was held captive by kalypso, odysseus and his men slaughtered a bunch of people on the. The kyklopes name is polyphemos and is zeus son: next island they land on is called land of the kyklopes. The kyklopes kills two of odysseus men and eats them. They plan to stab the kyklops in the eye with the sharpened olive branch: the kyklopes also eats two more men. They offer the kylopes wine again and again, to loosen him up. They then stabbed him in the eye due to the advantage that he is drunk. He then does a kyklopes call to aid him. Odysseus tricked polyphemos by presenting his name as nohbdy. Then when he lets out his caddle for lunch time they tied himself to the bottom to leave the cave the kylopes tells posedian to avenge him because of what odyyesues did.
