Odysseus typically relies on his intelligence, cunningness, and strategic thinking to navigate challenging situations. He is known for his ability to come up with clever plans, deceive adversaries, and outsmart his enemies in order to ensure the safety of himself and his men.
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to talk to tiresias the blind prophet he tells Odysseus the the prophecy that he sees destruction for ship and crew, only Odysseus will survive, he will come home on a strange sail, and there will be trouble. the trouble is that men will be eating his livestock while trying to get together with his wife
If his crew eat the Lotus, they will lose all desire to return home. Odysseus needs the men to return home himself, and he is responsible for these men.
Odysseus is trying to travel his way home to Ithaca, and keep his men, and himself alive in the process.
He puts himself before his men that's loyal-tie
Odysseus took 12 of his strongest men into Polyphemus' cave.
Because Odysseus and his men were told not to eat the cattle no matter the circumstances and when Odysseus stepped away, his mean cut up some of the cattle and ate them. Zues was ordered to destroy these men. So when Odysseus and his men left the Island a huge storm struck their ship and everyone died except for the great Odysseus himself.
Odysseus' men thought that inside in the bag contained some sort of treasure (gold, silver, riches, something from the gods) that Odysseus was trying to keep hidden away, so that he could have it all to himself.
Zeus struck it with a lightning bolt; this made all of Odysseus' men to drown except himself of course. Hope this helped!
By hiding under the cyclop's sheep. On the underside of Polyphemus' sheep. When Polyphemus let his sheep out into the pasture, Odysseus and the remaining crew rode out with the sheep. Odysseus gives Polyphemus a false name and then Odysseus and the men find a large olive stump and sharpen it into a massive spear. They then hide it and then Odysseus and the men feed Polyphemus wine until he is drunk and then they Odysseus and the men spear Polyphemus' eye, blinding him and then Odysseus and the men hide underneath the sheep, with Odysseus hiding beneath the largest ram.
If you are talking about the Sirens story: because he wanted to protect his men from the Sirens' singing, but he wanted to hear their songs himself.
He ate Odysseus's men.