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6 of the original 12 crewmen were still alive when Odysseus escaped the Cyclops. They rejoined the remainder of the crew on their ship, and later the remaining men on the other 11 ships.
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Where did Odysseus go after he left the cyclopes?
After Odysseus "visits" the cyclops, he and his men go to the Land of the Dead.
In the odyssey what did Odysseus do wrong when he left the cyclops?
While escaping, Odysseus taunts Polyphemus, revealing his real name.
Where does Odysseus go after he left the cyclops?
To the island Aeoli to see Aeolus god of the winds
What prevented Odysseus and his men from leaving the cave after the cyclops left for the day?
the cyclops lays with his hands out feeling everything that walks by, and there is a huge rock as the door so that the men cant move it
What does Odysseyus give the Cyclops as a gift?
Odysseus give the cyclops fine wine. He needed to escape the lair with his men so they tried to intoxicate him. When he was finally inebriated they lulled him to sleep with a song and they blinded him with wooden spear they sharped. Successfully blinding him they left under the disguise of the wool bellies of the cyclops' sheep.
Why does Odysseus go back to Circe after going to the Underworld?
so that he could bury Elpenor's body (one of his crewmen he found in the underworld)To properly bury Elphenor, the guy that fell off the roof the morning they left for the kingdom of the dead.
How could things have turned out differently for Odysseus if he had simply left the cave of the Cyclopes after blinding Polyphemous?
If Odysseus has tried to simply leave without using the sheep as a distraction, he may have been caught by Polyphemus and killed, regardless of Polyphemus' blindness. If Odysseus had not given his name, the Cyclops may not have cursed his name directly, and Odysseus might have gotten home sooner with his ships and crew.
How do Odysseus and his crew escape from Cyclops?
Odysseus gets the cyclops drunk, and tells him that his name is Nobody. The cyclops, Polyphemus, son of Poseidon, promises to eat him last for the gift of wine. The cyclops passes out, and Odysseus and his men use a huge burning stick to blind him. The next morning, Polyphemus got up to let his sheep and rams out to pasture. Odysseus and his crew hide underneath the bellies of the animals and crawl out of the cave.they were disguised as sheep while Odysseus' distracted the cyclopthere are different versions of this story but while the answer above IS one of the most common, i have also heard of one that they hid on the bellies of sheep as the sheep left the cave they were imprisoned inThey give him really powerful and strong wine that Odysseus got from the priest of Apollo, and got him drunk. Then they found a pole, carved it into a stake, stuck it in the fire to make it hot, and stabbed the Cyclops in the eye, blinding him. They couldn't kill him because they couldn't move the boulder in the entrance to the cave. When he let his sheep out in the morning, the men held onto the sheep, hiding under them, and snuck out. It worked because Polyphemus was blind and and felt the sheep's wool.
In the Odyssey book 9 what does Odysseus do when he have left the island of the cyclops?
After they leave the cyclopes' island, Odysseus takes his ships back to the neighboring island that they stopped at before (the one with really good land for farming but no seeds have been planted and lots of goats). They sacrifice the goat that Odysseus used to escape- Polyphemus' biggest ram. They sacrifice it to Zeus, but Zeus ignores it.
How many cyclops are left in the world?
The Cyclops is a mythical creature, there are and never have been any in the real world.
In The Odyssey Odysseus left Penelope bound for what city?
Odysseus left Penelope bound for Troy.
Which monster would kill more of Odysseus' men if given the chance?
Charybdis would kill all of Odysseus' men because she would suck them up in her whirlpool but, she was never given that opportunity. As for the other monsters, the Cyclops planed on eating all of the men and saving Odysseus for last. The Sirens would have allured all of Odysseus' men to them and devoured them and Scylla would continue to grab for six more men until there were none left.
