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Odyssey Notes, Cyclops



  • Polyphemus = name of Cyclops

  • O wants to wait for Cyclops to come home

  • On arrival, O and men build fire and eat food

  • (this was Greek tradition for guests to “make themselves at home”)

  • Cyclops gets home from his job (he’s a shepherd)

  • He does his chores and notices O and men


  • Cy wants to know why O and men are there

  • O explains and asks for gift

  • O warns: be nice or upset the gods

  • Cy doesn’t care about gods or the warning

  • Cy asks where they parked ships

  • O tells a lie: they crashed

  • Cy not sympathetic ; eats 2 men

  • Cy goes to sleep and O wants to kill him

  • He can’t – who will open the huge rock-door?

  • (only the Cyclops is strong enough to move door)


  • Cy wakes in morning; does chores; eats 2 more men

  • Cy leaves for work

  • O creates plan: poke his eye out

  • They find a dead tree in the cave; sharpen it

  • Cy returns from work; does chores; eats 2 more men

  • O offers Cy wine




  • Cy likes the wine; wants to know O’s name

  • Cy offers O a gift if he tells his name

  • O tells another lie: “my name is Nobody”

  • Cy tells O his “gift” – he’ll eat him last

  • O gives Cy more wine; Cy falls asleep

  • O and his men poke Cy’s eye out

  • Cy wakes up and screams to friends nearby

  • They ask: what’s wrong?

  • Cy responds: “Nobody is hurting me!”

  • O hides his men under Cy’s sheep

  • Cy lets the sheep out in the morning




  • O almost gets away, but yells to Cy:

  • “you got what you deserve”

  • O tells Cy: “My name is Odysseus”

  • “My father is Laertes” “I live in Ithaca”

  • Cy knew about O because a wizard told him this would happen some day

  • O tells Cy he would kill him if he could

  • Cy prays to father Poseidon for O to never get home

  • But, if he does, he wants 5 things:

  1. it takes a long time

  2. he has trouble on the way

  3. he loses all his friends

  4. he arrives home on someone else’s ship

  5. he has trouble at home when he gets there
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25 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Ms. Feller. This is Lexie Oldham. I read the notes and they were pretty good. That cyclops is one men guy!

Anonymous said...

Hey Mrs.Feller its Hannah H. I read the notes and O was not smart at all to tell all of his business like that.

Anonymous said...

hi mrs. feller. i read the notes.

Anonymous said...

Too bad that Cy guy dosen't have an eye now.

Anonymous said...

Okay. i got it.

Anonymous said...

Its Josh. I got it.

Anonymous said...

HEY MRS FELLER!

Zack said...

Guess what...I read it!

Zach

Anonymous said...

paige was here.(=

Anonymous said...

beautiful has read the notes!

Anonymous said...

hey mrs. feller! i read them!

Anonymous said...

read the notes...for the Horde!

Anonymous said...

i like your notes, they help =]

Anonymous said...

read the notes.
and the little pictures were funny
=]

Anonymous said...

robert read the notes i understand a little more

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Anonymous said...

hi mrs.feller i read the notes!

Anonymous said...

hmm...interesting. O is not all that bright.

Anonymous said...

Hey, hey, hey! We say the cyclops is stupid, but he knew all along. He set Odysseus up somethin' reeeeaaal nasty...

Anonymous said...

Cy got what he deserved. he ate 6 of odyssius's men. but yea i read the notes...

Anonymous said...

ill bet odysseus had a cute butt. ;)

Anonymous said...

o is so mean! how would he like it if someone poked his eye(s) out!

Anonymous said...

Ouch! Heehee. I read the notes. :)

Anonymous said...

I read em'

Anonymous said...

Rikki read the notes.. they helped =]