"Cyclops, you ask me for my famous name. I will tell you then, but you must give me a guests gift as you have promised. Nobody is my name. My father and mother call me Nobody, as do all the others who are my companions." IX 364-369
He told the cyclopes that his name was "Noman".
Cyclopes
Odysseus didnt forget his name, he changed it to nobody to fool the cyclopes.
Odyesseus tells the cyclopes that his name is nohbody, and the cyclopes yells "nohbody has blinded me!" That made the other cyclopes' think that all was well. :)
in the poem "the odyssey," Odysseus himself trys to be clever and tells the cyclops his name is Nohbdy. so when they stabbed the cyclops' eye, the cyclops shouted nobody has done this to me! But, when Odysseus is on his way to leave the island, he gloats and says "it is i Odysseus!"
He told the cyclopes that his name was "Noman".
Cyclopes
Odysseus didnt forget his name, he changed it to nobody to fool the cyclopes.
Odyesseus tells the cyclopes that his name is nohbody, and the cyclopes yells "nohbody has blinded me!" That made the other cyclopes' think that all was well. :)
in the poem "the odyssey," Odysseus himself trys to be clever and tells the cyclops his name is Nohbdy. so when they stabbed the cyclops' eye, the cyclops shouted nobody has done this to me! But, when Odysseus is on his way to leave the island, he gloats and says "it is i Odysseus!"
yes Answer 2. Polyphemus asked Odysseus about his name, which showed he could talk.
Odysseus calls himself Noman..
To trick the cyclopes into telling the others that "nobody" has tricked him.
Odysseus tricked Polythemus by telling him that his name was "Nohbdy." When Polythemus shouted for help, he yelled "Help, NOHBDY has blinded me." When the other cyclopes heard that NOBODY had hurt him, they laughed and went back to their own business.
He used a codeword, that translates in English rather nicely: "Nobody". He was invisible, and he was taunting Polyphemus the cyclopes with that name and stabbed him on the eye. This made the cyclopes disintegrate and was seen no more.
In Homer's "Odyssey," Odysseus is insulted by the Cyclops Polyphemus when he asks for his name and Odysseus cleverly responds with the false name "Nobody." When Odysseus and his men blind Polyphemus and he cries out for help, the other Cyclopes assume that "Nobody" is hurting him, leading Polyphemus to feel humiliated and insulted.
odysseus continually boasted as he left the island of the cyclopes that his name was odysseus and he was from ithica and that he had beaten polyphemos at his own game. this pissed off polyphemos and made him pray to his daddy poseidon that odysseus would never make it home.