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The gods changed his race as a curse for his arrogance.
Poseidon tried to punish Odysseus by laying a curse on him, saying that he (Odysseus) would never set foot on Ithaca without divine intervention (help from the gods).
That he is going to eat them
Polyphemus calls upon his father Poseidon to curse Odysseus.
At first, Polyphemus sees Odysseus and his men as harmless delicacies. However, after he is blinded, he is enraged at Odysseus and his men, enough to curse them in the name of his father.
The gods changed his race as a curse for his arrogance.
Poseidon tried to punish Odysseus by laying a curse on him, saying that he (Odysseus) would never set foot on Ithaca without divine intervention (help from the gods).
That he is going to eat them
Poseidon despised Odysseus. He hated him because Odysseus took Polyphemus (Poseidon's Son) eye. Polyphemus later Prayed to his father and told him to Curse Odysseus. Which Poseidon made a curse that made it harder for Odysseus to get home.
In Homer's Odyssey, the cyclops Polyphemus asks Poseidon, his father, to curse Odysseus so that he may never reach his home on Ithaca, or if he does, that he may face great hardships on his journey. This request sets in motion a series of challenges and obstacles that Odysseus must overcome on his voyage back home.
Odysseus and his men trick, then blind the Cyclops Polyphemus. So, he prays to his father, Poseidon, god of the sea and earthquakes, and asks him to put a curse on Odysseus and his men. Poseidon does and the curse torments them for the rest of their voyage.
Poseidon commanded them to be killed off on their voyage because of the curse he put on Odysseus.
Polyphemus's curse contains six parts. "…grant that Odysseus…may never reach his home in Ithaca. But if he is destined to see his friends again, to come once more to his own house and reach his native land, let him come late, in wretched plight, having lost all comrades, in a foreign ship, and let him find trouble in his home"Odysseus does return home, but the other five parts of the curse come true.
The Cyclops Polyphemos is the son of Poseidon. When Ployphemos is wounded, thwarted, and mocked by Odysseus, he calls out to his father for vengeance. Thus bringing a curse from Poseidon down upon the head of Odysseus.
Polyphemus calls upon his father Poseidon to curse Odysseus.
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The irony in Polyphemus's curse on Odysseus is that he unknowingly calls on Poseidon to exact revenge on himself. Polyphemus is unaware that Odysseus is disguised as "Nobody" when Odysseus blinds him, leading Polyphemus to ask Poseidon to punish "Nobody." This irony contributes to the cunning and cleverness of Odysseus in escaping the Cyclops.